Here is an incredibly dumb but potentially fun little question:
How would you take the basic premise behind H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and turn it on its head? If you planned on setting a game in the town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts and wanted it to be a light, bright summertime romp instead of a dark, dangerous flight for survival, how would you go about it? The travel season is upon us, after all, and quaint little coast towns with their quirky histories have long been favorite vacation destinations for more landlocked New Englanders.
Again, this is an incredibly dumb idea, but one that might provide a thread's worth of fun.
Don't know, but stealing this for my coming up DTD game. More Weird shit for the Weird shit god!
Nathaniel Wood
Thanks for the suggestion.
Carter Nguyen
Humans make contact with Dagon in a boat in the sea near Innsmouth, but instead of weird cult things happening, a successful trade of technology and resources occurs. Innsmouth quickly becomes a bustling trade city, specializing in the sale of Deep One technology. Massive tide pools are created for the purpose of communicating with the Speaker for Dagon and Deep One ambassadors. When it is discovered that Deep One and human offspring are fertile, a new race of Human-Deep One hybrids are created. With the help of new technology, humanity enters a golden age greater than any seen before.
Lincoln Martin
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Gavin Fisher
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Christopher Martinez
The immortality thing is a plus too.
Kevin Hill
Sounds like Monster High, a kid's cartoon.
Dylan Roberts
I live in a small New England sea coast town. Let me break it down for you.
Here, we thrive on tourists. Back in the day, there was a bit more of the hissing at outsiders. But now our towns economy does need it. Everyone knows each other here, so when a few tourists show up, we mostly just continue normally because they're here to see how quaint we are and swim and go to the beach. We don't talk differently around them, because we already talk in an occluded manner and we don't need to change because some people who think we're simple have shown up.
We have bonfires on the beach most weekends, but we typically don't let tourists come, because it's private and we're doing our thing. A few times people have invited hotties to come dance and play, but it typically sucks because they're so basic and don't understand what game we're playing. It changes the dynamic in a not very fun sort of way, but if they're hot enough we're in. Typically we pretend we're going to bed around 8 or 9 because all the stores close at 6.
The worst is when we think we've shaken them, and then they show up anyway. I'm always surprised by how they miss our hostility
