Innsmouth 1950 the city of the futur.

[Tor]

The original town of Innsmouth is described as being in a horrendous state of decay, with many of the buildings rotting, and on the point of collapse.  My Innsmouth  1950 is not the same,  it is a mix between Oak Ridge and Portsmouth USA.   the United States federal government chose the area as a site for developing new submarines for the NAVY when the war ended, the Innsmouth shipyard became the Navy's center for submarine design and development. In 1953, Albacore revolutionized submarine design around the world with its teardrop hull and round cross-section and the first nuclear-powered submarine built at the base, was launched in 1957.

The Admiral Harriman Nelson liked the area for several reasons. Its relatively low population and bad reputation made acquisition affordable, yet the area was accessible by both highway and rail, and utilities such as water and electricity were readily available.  The location and low population also helped keep the town relatively isolated, though the population of the settlement grew from about 3,000 in 1950 to about 75,000 by 1955.

The architecture firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) was contracted to provide a layout for the town and house designs SOM Partner John O. Merrill moved to New Hampshire  to take charge of designing the secret buildings at Innsmouth. He directed the creation of a town, which soon had 300 miles (480 km) of roads, 55 miles (89 km) of railroad track, ten schools, seven theaters, 17 restaurants and cafeterias, and 13 supermarkets. A library with 9,400 books, a symphony orchestra, sporting facilities, church services for 17 denominations, and a Fuller Brush Company salesman served the new city and its 75,000 residents No civilian airport was built, however, for security reasons, apartments, and dormitories, many made from cenesto (bonded cement and asbestos) panels, were quickly erected. Streets were laid out in the manner of a "planned community".

But what it is the horror in this.  Firts not only this city is a military research center it is also a social experiment.  In the pretense of security the citizen of Innsmouth must have on their belonging a security disc.  These disc serve three purposes.  One:  it serves of electronic money like a credit card.   With this the overseer of the city know how much each citizen has money and where and how they use-it.  With this is theorytically impossible to take bribes or create a crime syndicate because the money illegally won is immediately know from the authorities.  Two:  Normals citizen are not capable to enter in building and navy quarter devoted to top secret research.  Three:  Unknow from the citizen the identity disc can also be use by the city overseer like a localisation beacon.  Paranoia and scientific oppression ia also a form of horror.

I choose Admiral Nelson from Voyage to the bottom from the sea for two reason.  One in his biographie he has contributed greatly to buid the first nuclear-powered submarine the Nautilus.  Also in one of the episode of the tv series, he and the equipage of the seaview captured in a Pacifific island a deep-one like creature.  This creatute escaped when the Seaview was attackeb by a behemoth like monster (Dagon).

 

I am sure the communauty has also think what a 50 Cthulhu will be like.  I am curious about your suggestion.

Hei Lu

Oriental Mastermind

 

 

[TK Nyarlathotep]

I really like this! An interesting adaptation - in my 1927-based Innsmouth game, Innsmouth is actually going to be a tourist town for the maximum creep factor of being /invited/ in. Excellent work!

[Kyrral]

I like this a lot as well. Bravo sir. I'm playing a modern-times campaign right now, but may borrow your 50's Innsmouth ideas to springboard what a 2016 Innsmouth may be. If I do, I'll be sure to let you know!

[EricW]

Insmouth 2016 would be a tourist town and the centre of a small but growing corporate executive motivation training course provider...

[Tor]

I like the idea to represent Innsmouth in different times.  In my city i have a mad scientist/industrialist like Lex Luthor, a new Esoteric Order of Dagon who seem like the Shreiner to dodge the suspicion of authorities, a ghoul communauties, the Crimson Ghost organisation of industrial spy and the Innsmouth NET a criminal like organisation who the purpose are to be the scapegoat for all the criminal action of he EOD.   Also its funny to thing that the mascot of the city is a black lagoon like creature.

 

Hei Lu

Oriental Mastermind

[Darius West]

In my most recent campaign Innsmouth wound up being taken over by the Mi-Go a la "Invasion of the body snatchers" after the actions of the players.  The dominance of the Marsh family slipped, and the Gold refinery was reinvigorated by new capital as Denver Terrestrial Technologies took over and began investing in Bolton's disuses rare earth mines.  Innsmouth is looking more house proud and prosperous these days and the train line has re-opened.  It is still all secrets and Stepford wives, but there are new masters.  It sounds a bit like this Innsmouth 1950s, which amuses me.

 

[Tor]

Hum Mi-Go interesting, I dont believe I has not a alien invasion in my atomic Cthulhu thanks for this idea.

Here my Lex Luthor like PC

Basil Boroff is a Hungarian-American business magnate,[businessman, inventor, philanthropist, political activist, and author who is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry and holds dual citizenship (Hungary and the United States).  He is also a famous scientist known for the first organ-cloning from Chimpanzee.   He also has done considerable service to the computer science community and is one of the top-expert in artificial intelligence,  He work presently at New-Innsmooth in a top-secret project for the US governement.

Here the tribal chief for the ghoul communauty.

Jacob is a ghoul and his help his species by procurate them cadaver flesh.  Officialy a mortician he arrange funerals and generaly take care of the dead in the period between death and entombmemt.  He is a pillard of the communauties and his well liked by the New Innsmouth inhabitants.

[EricW]

It might be fun to throw a lot of red herrings. I mean, this is Innsmouth right? The players will be totally paranoid - there is no end of suspicious characters they could encounter.

How about the missing cats - and the nasty old woman who poisons the local cats, and throws them in her trash, because she's a bird lover.

The local librarian who has a collection of mouldering ancient occult books, who leads a coven of would be witches - but who has no mythos knowledge whatsoever.

The missing kids (they ran away together because their strict religious parents didn't want them to see each other).

The police officer who mostly does a good job, but has a nasty secret fetish - he likes touching ladies underwear (lurking suspiciously in the back yard of an attractive woman - maybe thats his next sacrificial victim!). 

The genuinely kind elderly priest who truly believes in his religious mission, and goes out of his way to welcome strangers and show Christian hospitality.

How many illegal acts could you tempt the players to perform, because they are acting like paranoid power gamers, instead of genuinely roleplaying their part?

Of course, once the players finally settle down, and get fed up with jumping at shadows, then they're in real trouble.

Who did they miss? The answer is the polite young female doctor who patches up their wounds from all these silly scrapes. She is actually a mad cultist who wants to join the deep ones - but she didn't have the right ancestors. So she's been secretly cooking up a hybridised virus, to alter her personal DNA, to achieve personal immortality and live forever in eternal bliss beneath the sea. The virus is contagious, and will spread like wildfire once it is released, causing hideous genetic changes in anyone who contracts it - but she doesn't care about that. All she needs to complete her work are a few test subjects, say a strange group of disposable out of towners, whom nobody likes and nobody will miss.

Of course, at first the doctor will ignore the players, and they will ignore her - when the players say "OK, we go to the local doctor to get this broken arm treated...", she will just be one of the local town doctors. But after a few visits, perhaps one of the players will ask her out on a date...

Edited October 7, 2016 by EricW

[Tor]

I will probably use the red herrings to teach my player the difference between call of cthulhu 1920/pulp horror and 1950/atomic horror.  More outer-space creature than extra-dimemsional one, more mad scientist than sorcerer and more weird science than sorcery, I can use your method to change my players perception of the games.

 

Hei Lu

Oriental Mastermind

[Darius West]

Change his name to Hei Yu. (jk)

[Tor]

I has named my oriental mastermind, Hei for Black and Lu for Path to.  Path to black onr who lives in secrecy.   But I admit my Mandarin is sorely lacking.  If my memory serve me well Yu is for jade a symbol for immortalitie not bad.