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[UPDATE] New Sentries and a Halloween Massacre

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Phaedra

So, Marie and Howard have confirmed that the name Stacy is familiar to them -- may have been a Sentry -- and that Peter is a former Sentry who also went to Miskatonic.

I've asked about a Halloween faculty massacre there, but he hasn't responded yet.

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 3:04 pm

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Phaedra

Yeah, I was assuming that since HPHack knew who Lovecraft was and was named after him, the game would not be taking place in a world created by Lovecraft (since he wouldn't exist in his own fictional world).

But it looks like it's more complicated than that. Shocked

In any case, if a faculty massacre happened while Howard was there, though, I doubt this will be a case of "nothing to see here." Smile

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 3:18 pm

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Phaedra

And as it turns out, the people (or at least Stacy and Peter) mentioned in those fragments are pre-crash Sentries, and a bunch of the CS staff at Miskatonic University died in a spelunking accident on Halloween that the tabloids tried to suggest was foul play, possibly with cult involvement, and Miskatonic U had secret societies claiming that they had access to the Necromicon in the rare documents collection at the university.

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 4:55 pm

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jjason · Veteran Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 113 Location: St. Paul

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 4:58 pm

Phaedra

I don't think anyone's tried that, no.

Okay, so it looks the world of the game is sort of Lovecraft's world once-removed. Places like Arkham and Miskatonic University really do exist, but Lovecraft is recognized as an author (as far as I can tell, one who still wrote fiction -- HPHack refers to his work as "campy memorializations" -- but about real places).

So, I spec (rather obviously, admittedly <wry>) that it's going to turn out that it wasn't fiction. Wink

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 5:15 pm

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sinyx

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 6:28 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

I haven't read a lot of HPL, *Hangs head*
So help me out with some spec, here.

Was the Halloween Massacre event only a part of one story? (Reanimator?) Or did it come up in several different stories?
I know the school was in a few, but am trying to figure out if the game will likely follow a certain storyline or just borrow ideas from several of them.

Edit: Just realized how off this post was for the stated topic. Any way to move it?

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Occultus · Boot Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 37

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 8:04 pm

Phaedra

**Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 8:59 pm

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bunksteve · Boot Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Los Angeles

Phaedra,

Any word on where the CS staffers were spelunking? Maybe the location might open up some more doors for us.

**Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 12:59 am

tipsila

**Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 8:51 am

Phaedra

**Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 9:53 am

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jjason · Veteran Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 113 Location: St. Paul

**Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 11:22 am

tipsila

**Posted:** Wed May 16, 2007 12:00 pm