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Can-ned Food · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Delaware, USA

Lovecraftian "ARG": Cthulhu Lives!

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:03 pm

TJ229ER

Wow that is alot of really big words.
Shocked

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:11 pm

jamesi

Why is ARG in quotation marks?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:14 pm

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How in the heck do you pronounce Cthulu?

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:16 pm

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Can-ned Food · Boot Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 23 Location: Delaware, USA

why, in non-Lovecraftian language

**Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:29 pm

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Nightmare Tony

Vote for Cthulhu...if you are tired of choosing the lesser of two evils!

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:03 am

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Re: why, in non-Lovecraftian language

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 12:29 am

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Try as I might, I never could get into Lovecraft's writing. It's too convoluted. <Amadeus> Too many notes. </Amadeus>

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:12 am

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**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:15 am

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Re: why, in non-Lovecraftian language

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:13 am

Dark Side Of The Moon

I've always heard Cthulu pronounced ~ KA-TOO-LOO~ with the "h" being silent...have no idea if that's the correct way...

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:06 am

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Alzheimers · Unfettered Joined: 02 Aug 2004 Posts: 339

Yaaaay, Wikipedia to the rescue!

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:53 am

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Re: why, in non-Lovecraftian language

**Posted:** Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:25 pm

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buff · Veteran Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 106

I would just love to play an Lovecraft-ARG...

Imagine the wonderful graphics and IRL-clues you could tie in...

*mutters silently*

You just wait...*wanders off*

**Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 7:32 am

jenni42ld

I'd love to play a Lovecraftian ARG as well. Of coure it'd be our last since we'd all go crazy if it was done right. Yay, I always wanted white hair before I turn 25.

I think it would be suited well for an ARG actually. Lovecraft was a master of horror for his time. Part of his unique technique had him putting ordinary people in extraordinary situations. But the way they got there, they started off in an ordinary situation...and it went downhill from there. There's a major paranoia component in any well run CoC game.

"Ok. You go in as bait. We'll wait for the pre-arranged signal- a scream- and then run in to rescue you and catch the _insert monster/cult here_ by surprise." *At the signal the party decides to run away. The bait commits suicide rather than get eaten alive.* (From an actual game.)

But for an ARG- you got us, the players, ordinary people who don't (probably don't) believe in elder gods, demons, stuff from other dimensions. We are in an ordinary situation, our own lives. The PMs intervene from there, messages, odd occurrances, etc. And so it begins.

Wink

**Posted:** Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:09 am