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From a site covering internee suicides, this little gem hinting at a chilling reaction from locals...
"The location of this internment camp was likely at Cave and Basin, Banff. According to a November 18th, 1916 report ,the location of the camp was recently moved down from Castle Mountain to winter quarters near the Cave and Basin. The temperature at that time was 37 below zero. The camp held around 250 aliens, with 120 guards. According to the local paper - "...the majority of our citizens are of the opinion that the scenic outlook is not vastly improved by the presence of the slouching, bovine-faced foreigners."
"The location of this internment camp was likely at Cave and Basin, Banff. According to a November 18th, 1916 report ,the location of the camp was recently moved down from Castle Mountain to winter quarters near the Cave and Basin. The temperature at that time was 37 below zero. The camp held around 250 aliens, with 120 guards. According to the local paper - "...the majority of our citizens are of the opinion that the scenic outlook is not vastly improved by the presence of the slouching, bovine-faced foreigners."
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A little something I saw today.
Not really a lecture idea, but they are so esoteric that they might be something that confuses a character in a game.
A sunlight recorder.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/02/campb ... order.html
Not really a lecture idea, but they are so esoteric that they might be something that confuses a character in a game.
A sunlight recorder.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/02/campb ... order.html
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That is cool. It looks like a mi-go sextet. I also like how it could absolutely be in a 1920s game.Koakai wrote:A little something I saw today.
Not really a lecture idea, but they are so esoteric that they might be something that confuses a character in a game.
A sunlight recorder.
http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/02/campb ... order.html
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Love it! How would you use it in a scenario, Jon?
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Leveraging off of something I read in one of Fantasy Flight Games' novels set in the Arkham Horror Universe, I'd have the mi-go sextet be some kind of magic point battery that could open a gate to Yuggoth.Dr. Gerard wrote:Love it! How would you use it in a scenario, Jon?
I stumbled across a 2005 news story about an isolated pair of Mormon splinter communities, that look to be the real world manifestations of Dunwich/Innsmouth.
Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12- ... ruit/full/
Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12- ... ruit/full/
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
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Oh man. That one is super dark!Graham wrote:I stumbled across a 2005 news story about an isolated pair of Mormon splinter communities, that look to be the real world manifestations of Dunwich/Innsmouth.
Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12- ... ruit/full/
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Hope you get round to it. Here is something much lighter:Dr. Gerard wrote:Oh man. That one is super dark!Graham wrote:I stumbled across a 2005 news story about an isolated pair of Mormon splinter communities, that look to be the real world manifestations of Dunwich/Innsmouth.
Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12- ... ruit/full/
Otherhand: Historic Speed of Light measurements in Southern California
Which covers what Dr. Albert Michelson of Wikipedia: Michelson–Morley experiment fame was doing from 1922 until his death in 1931.
The last experiment Otherhand: Irvine Ranch measurements (1929 – 1933) might be useable as an adventure location for a post-Classic era adventure.
"If you do good, you'll live forever, if you do bad, you'll die hearing a single note for I am the one true sound...", Fragment found in a cult hideout.
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Love it. I really have to start turning these into lectures.Graham wrote:Hope you get round to it. Here is something much lighter:Dr. Gerard wrote:Oh man. That one is super dark!Graham wrote:I stumbled across a 2005 news story about an isolated pair of Mormon splinter communities, that look to be the real world manifestations of Dunwich/Innsmouth.
Forbidden Fruit: Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12- ... ruit/full/
Otherhand: Historic Speed of Light measurements in Southern California
Which covers what Dr. Albert Michelson of Wikipedia: Michelson–Morley experiment fame was doing from 1922 until his death in 1931.
The last experiment Otherhand: Irvine Ranch measurements (1929 – 1933) might be useable as an adventure location for a post-Classic era adventure.
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Came across the fext, and thought it would make a good history lecture. Trying to dig up more info on it, but so far not getting much.
Fext is a man vulnerable only by a bullet made of glass (the word itself probably comes from the German kugelfest) or a small stake used to tie young trees. Fext does not disintegrate after death and sometimes his corpse also shows a little activity like moving a hand if someone disturbs it. If a child is born in an amniotic cavity and this part of the placenta is carefully removed, dried, stored and later carried by the child under his left shoulder, the child will probably become a fext.
Most stories about fexts are located to eastern Bohemia and western Moravia, today's Czech republic, during the 30-years war. Some of the Swedish officers of protestant army plundering the countryside of Habsburg empire were believed to be fexts because of failures of attempts to assassinate them.