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[green ice queen]

yeah an arg would be great. i remember playing the dos based call of cthulhu: shadow of the comet. amazing game.

[buff]

Hmmm...

Anyone know where one might buy or hire Big, Extra-Terrestial, Slimey Monsters and Elder Gods? Outer Gods and Mad Cults are also of interest. Reply to 1-800-ETERNALMADNESS

God; I would just love playing that. However, one slight problems exists - it's kid of hard to warp reality without Black Powers and knowledge about the Mythos?

[jenni42ld]

Nah, it's all smoke and mirrors. Really. I mean, really. *looks around nervously* None of it is real. I swear. Everything is norma....OH GOD WHAT IS THAT THING?!

Though really, I think that Cthulhu would work best as a small scale local arg.

[buff]

*turns on flashlight*

Hmm. Local ARG?

I think that depends on how you design it, as always...
But it just screams "IRL-Events" all over it, doesn't it?

[ProfMoriarty]

IRL-events? Like.. evil monsters coming for real?

The evil city outside of Arkham (or is the slums of Arkham?) kind of reminds me of Juneau, Alaska, where I live.

I had actually considered PMing a Cthulu ARG. Then I found out ARGs take work. Screw that!

[firefox]

cool premise.. i believe there are tales floating around, urban myths, in a lovecraftian style, of an electronic version of yog-sothoth, which when downloaded lets you stare into the eyes of doom itself....

but that's beside the point,


*firefox mutters something about everything become trendy today...


*sigh*

[buff]

Firefox; Can you remember where you heard that? I've heard rumours about it, and would love to check it out...

IRL-Events as in "Players venture forth to the strange caves, guided by their friends online in a chat with "Insert-Strange-Entity-Here" and goes down into the darkness and madness..."

[bartmans]

Either there are many followers of Lovecraft or the site that has been referred to (http://www.cthulhulives.org/whatisitintro.html) is not working properly,
since I'm getting a time-out error.

[firefox]

buff, i think it may have been a short stories collection. where writers who were inspired by the cthulhu mythos built upon it.

dunno if i could ever find it again. ill try this weekend at my lib to get an isbn for you, man uni is killing me 1 day at a time. ive barely got enough time for this one post let alone arg'ing.. woe is me

[catherwood]

[buff]

Thanks; both of you...

I found it at my local "Sci-Fi/Fantasy" - bookstore...

[chaotic_mind]

Local ARG?

Hmm - I wonder if it's possible to draw a line between a local ARG, and a LARP (live action role-playing game) or if they just start to merge into the same thing.

It seems that Cthulhu lives isn't so much a classic ARG, as an aforementioned LARP.

The difference being, in my mind, one of scope and availability.

ARGs have a wide, public audience, where as most RPGs (LARPs included) have a somewhat more private audience taking part int the world.

ARGs also do their best to blur the line between in-game and out-of-game, but RPGs seem to have a pretty obvious and defined line between the two worlds.

Which may be what the difference between a LARP and an ARG is, but my sense is that an local ARG/LARP is where the two genre's start to move in the other's direction.

Luke P.

[muskieratboi]

Cthulhu Lives! is not an ARG. it's a LARP.

Although.. I know a few people who are steeped down enough inside the mythos to be able to create an ARG proper out of it.. Stay tuned.