Incorporating Local history into a game of CoC

[Etranger]

It's enjoyable to read along with too. There's enough interesting factual information there to conjure up all sorts of weird & wonderful conspiracies, & thats before you add any eldritch touches to the story.

[Gunslinger]

Prof.,

You have got me thinking now.  In St. Louis we have the Lemp Mansion and Brewery.  It is pretty famous.  As a matter of fact, were it not for prohibition, most of America would be drinking Lemp beer instead of Budweiser.  (Prohibition bankrupted Lemp.)

In any event, about 5 members of the family killed themselves in the Lemp Mansion and it is now suppossedly haunted.  They have turned it into a Bed & Breakfast and a restaurant, but people always have "occurrences" there.  I haven't of course.

The brewery is mostly warehouse space now, but they do have a haunted house at Halloween.

Maybe, distraught with bankruptcy the Lemp's turned to the ruinous powers to save their empire, but the price was too great...

 :twisted:

In any event I am looking forward to your project and am only happy to be supportive.  Keep up the good work.  Maybe you can work up some scenarios for .45 Adventure?

Pat

[Etranger]

I hope it wasn't pronounced 'limp', or there might have been some image problems!  

[Gunslinger]

No it is pronounced [lehmp].

[Prof. Dietrich Hes]

Etranger,
  thanks, I will continue to wkr on this and post with my findings.

Gunslinger,
  That does sound like it has some interesting potential in there.  Did they kill themselves at the same time, or over a period of time?  Not heard too many storues of family mass suicides.

  my concept right now is to focus using CoC, from Chaosium,  as a primary, but hte scenarios will be written with other sets in mind as well.  I'm working on a conversion chart to make CoC stats into 45A, or AT2, or CiC, etc...  so they will be pretty universal, mainly usable with 45A as that is the set I am most familiar with.

[Gunslinger]

No it was over time that they killed themselves and it was four members of the family, not five as I previously stated.

If anyone is interested:

http://www.prairieghosts.com/lemp.html

Pat

[Prof. Dietrich Hes]

Pat,
  the "Lemp" story does sound like a good one.  It would make a good backdrop to a murder/Ghost mystery type game.