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Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

@gohKamikazeSorry, I thought I responded yesterday :O But yeah it looks good, go ahead and post!

Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

Room 125

@RBYDark

Another knock came through the steel door, its very mass luring the mind into believing the sound coming from eons away, a sound from a time long gone, yet still observable, if you knew how to look -or rather in this case, hear. A moment of silence followed, rapidly persued by two more knocks and the sound of movement, as if someone sat down next to the door. And if one, in this corridor of terrifying design and thought, stood close enough, one could hear a voice.

"Dr. Jeremiah Dupree. Born 1882, same year the German discovered tuberculosis, and a man of great importance for America was born in New York. They call you "The Collector" and "Jerry", but your true only you know. You have kinds eyes and smile, reflecting your soul...your mind. You saw him jump from that tower, Dr. Atkins, didn't you? You and your friends, you seek answers, but you do not realize the dire implecations your quest for answers carries...The boy will come back."

The sound of a woman got quiet for a minute, only the voices of the other residents audible through their metal cages in the most distorted of ways. One would think that this was all simply tricks of the mind, hadn't the voice continued after a while.

"Mr. Colombo sent word of you, I'm sorry it disturbed you, but it was needed. And now you're all coming here to talk, to seek answers. So while we wait for your friends, ask what you can only ask through this physical barrier, Doctor."

Room 64

@Sigurd

"Come in!"

As the door slowly swung open, a loud creak of rusty hinges from the old door masking any sound of foot steps from the visitor. It was a dimly lit room, one barely able to see hadn't it been for the light flowing in from the doorway and the small, barred up window further up on the wall. It would have been a room worth looking over your shoulder for.

But there stood simply a young woman; a pretty woman in hospital gowns, reaching into the drawers of a desk that stood at the end of the room. She casually continued to search through the drawers, looking up briefly with a smile of an angle meant for Emil, a kind look in her eyes, before she returned to the drawers.

"I'm sorry, Sir, but if you're looking for Dr. Gabrowski, he's on a tour with students from Miskatonic University. Or are you just lost? You look a bit lost, no offense...I sometimes get lost here as well, even after having worked here for so long. The bathroom is just across the hall if you need that. Or are you visiting someone?"

The woman looked up at Emil again at the end of that sentence, still a kind smile on her face - one that would warm anyone's heart and certainly make any man's blood boil from excitment - , as she pulled up a key in plain sight. And on the key, if one looked closely, you could make out a number hammered into the metal.

125

Old One Rising (A Lovecraftian adventure-horror RP) (Reboot)

@Fish of OblivionHaha, getting distracted seems to be a common problem for all of us here. Perhaps the Elder Gods are trying to keep us from digging our noses to deep? Have fun reading through the IC, it has become a long story, even if it barely has been a day in-game time :P

@T RisketHeck yeah! It's going to be a great collab, let me tell you! It's going to be a HUGE collab, the best you've ever seen! I'm great at writing collabs, you know, and I get people walking up to me and saying "Hey ONL, I'm really glad you're writing that collab, you're going to make it great again. I know some of my folk don't write good collabs, but I know you do.".

And you know who writes bad collabs? The Mexicans! They don't write good or their best collabs. No, they write those one-liners and just awful collabs! And I'm going to build a huuuuge firewall to stop them from entering this page! Let's make RPG great again!

...I think I'm going slightly mad, folks. Please send help.

Edit. And there we go, just posted a short one so that Sigurd and RBY can post if they have time and feels fit for it. @gohKamikaze, you think you'll be able to somehow join the group soon-ish? Or do you need some help to fit him in?

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@Dinh AaronMkOkay, now you're just tempting faith into dooming my and my Pacific republic. Then again, what else could one except from a bunch of socialists and Trotsky's in the middle of nowhere?

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

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There's really no one stopping anyone from doing anything with the US dead in the water. And really, I'd argue that the Pacific States wouldn't be in any condition to deploy a naval response force to a Japanese invasion. A lot of what the US Navy had to offer was set up or an fit for a nation with as large an infrastructure as it had. Large battle-tubs like Battleships are only really major sea-power platforms, as well as aircraft carriers. Their intensive resource and manpower demands means that they'd be all too expensive for any US rump-state to use.

Not to mention the Republican Party at the time was a very much anti-military party and advocated a small army, and at the time after the First World War, with the War to End all Wars having been fought, the incentive for the US to have an army would have shrunk and all that's left of any military infrastructure is skeletal. And it'd be hard for any rump-state to validate any sort of military expansion under present conditions.

@Dinh AaronMk

Oh I'm not trying to imply otherwise, I'm well aware of the accute shortage of industry and manpower needed to build up and sustain anything the size of the American Navy. And I'm for certain having no plans for meeting the Japanese Imperial Navy head-on (exactly why I'd like them as an ally rather than an enemy). I'm simply saying that if push comes to shove, I can't see me just letting Japan take Hawaii without me putting up a fight.

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@Dinh AaronMkDon't say that, I want to keep my Hawaiian pineapples. And the security of all Americans living there of course...sure...But it would for sure put Japan in a situation that they'll need to attack the European/American possessions a lot earlier. Let's see what KingTip says once that matter arises, I'd prefer to have Japan as an ally rather than an enemy. Or are you just trying to have the Dustbowl States stab me in the back?

@DoctoryzerWho do you mean by "the people"? The Japanese populace? Machurians and Taiwanese?

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@DoctoryzerBut there lies the problem, Japan is in no position to simply shut itself in and try to deal with it's domestic issues while letting go of, say Korea and Machuria; the Japanese home-islands possess nowhere near enough resources to sustain the kind of growth they experienced after the Meji-Restoration and subsequent westerizations, and certainly not a Japan in 1937. Especially with a collapsed US and cut off from the American steel, iron and oil, they would be forced to expand their territories. But that only leads to them needing more resources to protect said territories, which leads them to expand to get said resources and etc. etc. But this is all my opinion, and I fully understand your reasoning for this, and I'm looking forward to seeing more North Korea...I mean China!

And besides, having a Japan that is in dire need of resources gives me as a Pacific state an ace in any dealings I'll have with the Japanese, so I won't complain ^^

And (sorry to start a sentence with AND twice...I hate myself) now that I've re-read my very solid and factual source of history(aka Wikipedia) that Japan actually did very well during the Depression. Japan is awesome, even for killing people.

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@Dinh AaronMkThen it seems like it's easier to remain a GP in vanilla VicII than in the modded version. What did you end up doing with Portugal? Did you manage to form a United Kingdom of Iberia and kick out the British from Gibraltar?

Ah, the Blue Blob, always the grand enemy. Until the Great Grey Blob appears, then you've got a problem.

@DoctoryzerBy no means meant as bum your nation, but I noticed that you stated "Though with states like Japan, who has seen weakening since the depression, and without a U.S. trading with them and a crippled world, the idea of Japanese imperialism is a thing of the past.". Though in real life Japan was hit really hard by the Depression, they still continued their imperialistic ambitions, and would have done so even more with the fall of the US. Why, you might ask? Because with a crippled economy, they had more the reason to let the military fix the problem, which is why they invaded China so many times and then the European colonies in 1941. They needed those external markets and resources under control if they couldn't buy it cheaply on the global market, so in my opinion they would have clung even tighter to their "colonies".

Phew, that was a lot of ranting, really sorry about that. I just wanted to get it out of my system after having thought about it. Have a still good day.

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@Dinh AaronMkSo first send it to one player, then just pass it around until it's all filled in? Might work.

With or without the Pop Demand mod? Once I went over to playing it modded, I couldn't go back. And regarding Spain, good luck. From what I remember, they have a tough early-game period, and you'll probably drop out of Great Power Status quickly.

Now that would actually be an interesting nation to have in this RP, a imperialistic Spain who tries to take back South America since the US can't protect them.

Point of No Return (Extreme Great Depression Alternate History)

@Dinh AaronMkI second this, though it might take one heck of a long time to do properly. Not to mention the non-American states that have funny borders in our timeline.

Ah, Victoria II, how I have missed you. I miss unifying Germany early and dominating the world. Good times.