Plot devices for Strange Aeons (OT ?)

[Grumbling Grognard]

I have *never* been the "conspiracy theory type" (if you know what I mean).

Even as a kid, the "documentaries" about the pyramids being "space ships/time machines" or designed/built by little green men, etc. just made me laugh.    I can still remember the craze about the "Bermuda Triangle" when I was young (I still have a great old family board game from the era!)  Heck, most of today's kids do not even recognize the phrase any more!  

So, when it comes to plot devices for games such as this I have found I am at a severe handicap!

I was looking for "artifacts" to go with my "Costa Rican Stone Spheres" expedition ( Costa Rican Stone Spheres Vid On YouTube )  ...

Well look no further than... YouTube to the rescue!  Want a "Conspiracy Theory"?!?  Well you have come to the right place it seems!  


1.) 7 Mysterious Artifacts Vid On YouTube

2.) 10 More Mysterioious Artifacts On YouTube

3.) What?  You want more artifacts!


And in case you thought only the Costa Ricans were crazy cultists!  

4.) Of course...Bosnia!

5.)I knew the English were behind it all!

Enjoy,
Scott

[horridperson]

I'm an unrepentant sceptic so my, conspiracy theory is pretty weak as well.  I think that anything fantastical disproven or not is fair game in Imaginationland. Worldbuilding to me is intuitive like cooking.  Some truth, a bit of fiction mix it all together and good to go.  As I'm building my web of intrigue I'm realizing the importance of a catalyst.  Someone needs to have an interest/desire/need concerning something in order to make it worthwhile.  Inventing a mystery affords you the luxury of reverse engineering as well; Where every "revelation" is derivative of the preconceived conclusion.   

[Connectamabob]

Conspiracy theorist thinking allows you to take it one further in the case of discredited/debunked stuff. All you gotta do is add another layer to the conspiracy. Real conspiracy theories regularly do this to try and wrangle out of being debunked, but it serves fictional needs even better.

Like, IRL we now know the face on Mars isn't an actual thing, but it'd be simple to suggest in-game that it WAS real, and the Mi-Go destroyed it after the Viking photos became public.

Or: crop circles are known fakes... except these particular ones are someone using the general hoaxing as a steganography cover.

Or: the reason no-one has been able to find any bigfoots/skunk-apes/yeti is because they're hollow earth dwellers, and the only times we see one is because that one accidentally stumbled on a connecting cave and had a Lovecraftian experience of his/her own on the mythical "outside".

Or: the hollow Earth actually a D-brane cyst anchored to the earth's gravity well, not an actual geologic hollow (this is actually the explanation for R'lyeh I've always favored, which I'm repurposing here for hollow earth). You'd need a lot of collated relativistic measurements to detect it, so without intervention humanity wouldn't be able to discover it on their own until interplanetary travel became common.

OK, so those last two weren't conspiracy theories, but the same "add another layer" principle applies.

[styx]

Only in the county can I work in comes up with better plot devices than I can!

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/weapons-floors-booby-trapped-at-hernando-home-with-thousands-of-knives/2245986

One of the images has an alter with fecal matter and weapons with fake skulls, plus a pentagram on one image.