Those whacky New Englanders were at it earlier than we suspected, apparently.

http://io9.com/5699875/why-is-cthulhu-on-this-300%20year%20old-gravestone

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Heh, after reading the article I can already see the outlines of a fine CoC adventure.

It's very cool. Not that surprising: looking at cemeteries by the sea, like on the Ile-aux-Moines in the Golfe du Morbihan, in Bretagne, France, you will see quite a few tombs dating back to the mid-19th century, at least, with all sorts of interesting, fantastic designs, obviously with seafaring, monster theme going on. It's pretty cool. I'm sure you can have similar experiences with visits of sites in New England. Makes all kind of sense in areas that had a lot of fishermen and families living around them, or waiting for them to come back from the high seas.

Quote from: Benoist;422635It's very cool. Not that surprising: looking at cemeteries by the sea, like on the Ile-aux-Moines in the Golfe du Morbihan, in Bretagne, France, you will see quite a few tombs dating back to the mid-19th century, at least, with all sorts of interesting, fantastic designs, obviously with seafaring, monster theme going on. It's pretty cool. I'm sure you can have similar experiences with visits of sites in New England. Makes all kind of sense in areas that had a lot of fishermen and families living around them, or waiting for them to come back from the high seas.

I don't think this is a new proposition, but there's something ominous in a CoC context about the Ys legend.

Oh absolutely, no question about it!

I feel blessed to live where I live, honestly (Central Coast of BC). I get the weather of Bretagne, plus the forest and the ocean right next door to me. It's eerie sometimes. You can look at the islands covered with coniferous forest all around, and I swear, sometimes, at night, when the storm's raging and you've got the rain beating your roof down, I could imagine the head of Great Cthulhu piercing the surface of the black waters, by moonlight, obscuring the stars which happened to be right...

You know.

The downside of course is that you can feel very isolated sometimes. When the power shuts down for days, that it's 15 degrees (Celsius) in your apartment, and the weather is awful and grey with low clouds by the forest out there... you feel really like you're in a novel of Lovecraft. It can be unnerving at times.

Quote from: Benoist;422642Oh absolutely, no question about it!

I feel blessed to live where I live, honestly (Central Coast of BC). I get the time of Bretagne, plus the forest and the ocean right next door to me. It's eerie sometimes. You can look at the islands covered with coniferous forest all around, and I swear, sometimes, at night, when the storm's raging and you've got the rain beating your roof down, I could imagine the head of Great Cthulhu piercing the surface of the black waters, by moonlight, obscuring the stars which happened to be right...

You know.

So basically what you're saying is you sleep with a nite-lite and your head under the covers?

LOL It's stimulating for the imagination, no question about it!

Here in Uruguay, the Palacio Salvo, a building one block away from my apartment, is covered in Cthulhu-esque imagery.  It was built by a mad alchemist, was once the tallest building in south america, and has a nearly-identical but slightly smaller copy in Buenos Aires (who some believe was part of a plan using sacred geometry to leech away magical energy from buenos aires and bring it to Montevideo, protecting montevideo from dark spiritual forces... and some would say clearly making Buenos Aires more prone to them).



Oh yeah, and its supposed to be full of ghosts, obviously. The place was once a hotel (my parents honeymooned there), but it has long since been turned into apartments, and is now half-derelict.  Its crazy.

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