I found this among my papers from a few months ago, as I was tidying up just now. I recall I was trying to create the most generic weird horror protagonist/Call of Cthulhu PC ever
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Well, the downside of being a leisured Bostonian who shuns most society, uses his non-sarcastically-copious free time to read, and has a huge inheritance quietly accruing somewhere is--
Well, there has to be a downside SOMEWHERE, I just can't think what it is right now.
Well, there has to be a downside SOMEWHERE, I just can't think what it is right now.
The eventual raving lunacy, I imagine, but it's a pretty attractive proposition until then!
[edit] I mean, I'm nearly the right age and I have all the necessary health complaints. What can I get if I start taking more nighttime walks? (I'd like to skip the deceased family, please. It wouldn't help with the inheritance and would throw a spanner into my support structure, although I realize nobody in Lovecraft has those anyway.)
I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of game characters based on Hope Mirrlees and Jane Ellen Harrison as ambiguously coupled occult researchers.
(I was also going to say I'd recently learnt that Des Esseintes was supposed to have been based on French composer Prince Edmond de Polignac, but upon rechecking, he was based on de Polignac's sometime boyfriend de Montesquiou, although poor Polignac seems to have had the bad digestion part of the character. Anyway at least Polignac eventually ended up spending his last years in a happy lavender marriage with Winneretta Singer, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing machine fortune. I would be quite happy with any or all of these people as game characters as well.)
(Or Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King. Seriously -- if anyone on the Allied side was going to put together a mystical covert ops group, he's the one who actually might have done.)
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Man, I wish!
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Well, there has to be a downside SOMEWHERE, I just can't think what it is right now.
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The eventual raving lunacy, I imagine, but it's a pretty attractive proposition until then!
[edit] I mean, I'm nearly the right age and I have all the necessary health complaints. What can I get if I start taking more nighttime walks? (I'd like to skip the deceased family, please. It wouldn't help with the inheritance and would throw a spanner into my support structure, although I realize nobody in Lovecraft has those anyway.)
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Ambiguous solo encounters with NPCs who/which may become relevant to the plot?
OH HO I JEST there is no plot I just want there to be one. I'm sure there are ambiguous NPCs though.
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(I was also going to say I'd recently learnt that Des Esseintes was supposed to have been based on French composer Prince Edmond de Polignac, but upon rechecking, he was based on de Polignac's sometime boyfriend de Montesquiou, although poor Polignac seems to have had the bad digestion part of the character. Anyway at least Polignac eventually ended up spending his last years in a happy lavender marriage with Winneretta Singer, one of the heirs to the Singer Sewing machine fortune. I would be quite happy with any or all of these people as game characters as well.)
(Or Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon McKenzie King. Seriously -- if anyone on the Allied side was going to put together a mystical covert ops group, he's the one who actually might have done.)
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