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In the port town of Ravenhome a ship lost at sea for three years has returned. The cargo vessel was discovered by a couple who'd gone out for a romantic night on the beach, where it had crashed ashore. The ship itself was in surprisingly good condition, but when the local law enforcement went to investigate, they found the ship all but empty. The cargo was still intact, but there were no signs of the crew, save one. Andrew Gilbert Crossfield was a sailor of little import, just a basic deckhand, and was found huddled in the foetal position in the ship engine room. The only info released about his condition was that he was mentally unstable, and was placed in the care of Ravenhome Asylum until it could be determined if he was a danger to himself or others. Since the return of the lost ship, your characters have been suffering from recurring nightmares that make it difficult to sleep. Oddly you cannot seem to remember your nightmares, save that something was calling you out to the shipwreck.

This is set in 1939, in the fictional town of Ravenhome, North Carolina, though your characters may end up quite far away from their origin point. You will all be playing Ravenhome residents who, at the start of the adventure, have finally given into the wants of their dreams and decided to go to the wrecked ship.

This is not using the Call of Cthulhu RPG system, rather a regular play by post setting. Post order will be organized by rounds to keep things clean, with post order determined by intro posts, and a GM post at the end of each round.

Five character slots, posting in the interest check will increase your chances of being accepted but I’ll be primarily be accepting based on characters that I like once the main thread is started.

Please note that this will deal with dark and mature themes, though nothing past the RPGuild rules, so if gore, suicide, mental illness and general disturbing imagery make you uncomfortable this is not the RP for you.
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Id love to play, do you want me to post a character concept here? I'm thinking of a parish priest.
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You can post a concept outline here, that's fine. Put it in a read-more though.
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I've recently fallen in love with Sunless Sea(game) and general Lovecraft. (I read Mountains of Madness and really need to find time to finish Call of Cthulhu)
While I'm not entirely certain about what I would play as, I'd be lying to say I wasn't interested in the idea.
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That's fine. I can help with character ideas when I've gotten enough interest.
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Horrid aesthetic.

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I've got a definite interest.
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...probably a poet of sorts whose become enthralled by the nameless shapelessness of the nightmare, seeking to find the source in the hopes of giving fear a new name, and being the one to name it.
Something about romanticizing the abyss.

Regardless, yeah. Thats going to take work >_<
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I haven't tried my hand at a horror RP before, but I'd very much like to.

How much do we have to know about Call of Cthulhu? All I know is that Cthulhu is some big squid-headed monster that people across the internet universally fear.

Not that that'd be a bad thing mind, as I imagine my character wouldn't be a professor in ancient beings from a time long forgotten, and would be shouting "WTF!!!!!" at every turn.

I'd play to play as a local successful business owner, plump around the mid-section, with a thick moustache and a monocle. Someone who thinks it's all nonsense, and who has been relatively untouched by the dark nightmares (thanks to a nightly excess of brandy), but whose wife has been terribly effected by it all. Therefore, he goes to the ship so that he can put her mind at rest by assuring nothing is there.

Or maybe there's a financial reason behind it; maybe there's something on the ship he wants, like some hidden cargo, hmmm?

I'm not sure, but I'll hash out some concepts and see what you think :)
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I like the idea of a succesfull business owner type, it's definitely not a common one for a Lovecraft Mythos setting. And that limited amount of knowledge is fine, it'll hopefully serve only to make the responses to the Mythos that much more genuine.

I'm heading off to sleep now, but I'll start up a main thread tomorrow morning and get a character skeleton set up.
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And here's the main thread.
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