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A genuine ghost ship for your Horror/Pulp game

Started by NYTFLYR, October 02, 2018, 08:44:07 AM

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October 02, 2018, 08:44:07 AM Last Edit: October 02, 2018, 09:38:30 AM by NYTFLYR
Ghost Ship of the Arctic, 1931-????

reprint of an article originally published in the December 1931 issue of The Beaver.

(last one, dont want to flood this forum)
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Omega

#1
October 02, 2018, 12:57:49 PM
Ahh the good ol' SS Baychimo. I used that ghost ship for a BTS adventure back in the late 80s. Pretty interesting history to it and amazing it survived unmanned for years just puttering around out there.

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October 04, 2018, 04:09:30 AM
Cool.
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October 04, 2018, 05:34:13 AM
The ship was last sighted in the late 60s.

There is a papercraft model that might make for an interesting minis diorama if scaled up.

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October 04, 2018, 12:16:57 PM
Wow that's awesome.  Thanks!

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October 04, 2018, 03:36:32 PM
Nice one! Ta' for sharing.
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October 05, 2018, 03:05:42 AM
Thank you! This is very cool.

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October 06, 2018, 10:25:09 AM
Fantastic! Great site, btw!
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#8
October 06, 2018, 10:49:40 AM
Quote from: MKoth;1059143Fantastic! Great site, btw!

Thanks! Its a labor of luv :) Hopefully some people are getting use out of it
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October 06, 2018, 11:22:50 AM
Great site! Next time I need inspiration, I'll simply pull up a random page from your site and then it's off to adventure!

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October 06, 2018, 12:28:38 PM
Quote from: MattyHelms;1059150I'll simply pull up a random page from your site and then it's off to adventure!

and because of that... Ive added a "random post from the past" widget
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October 08, 2018, 06:12:12 AM
I've found Fists and .45s! to be a source of inspiration and very useful. Keep up the good work!
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#12
October 11, 2018, 06:36:39 AM
This article somehow evokes to mind the excellent recent miniseries The Horror.
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#13
October 12, 2018, 03:54:31 AM
Theres alot of odd stories out there and some mysteries that would make for good Call of Cthulhu style trouble.

One came across last year was the Dyatlov Pass incident where some winter hikers in Russia all mysteriously died.
Lemmino has a pretty good documentary on it.

[video=youtube;Y8RigxxiilI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8RigxxiilI[/youtube]

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#14
October 12, 2018, 05:20:15 AM
I didn't know about the Baychimo, thanks for that.  For sheer tabloid headline goodness I still like Abandoned Cruise Ship Full of Starving Rats Headed For Land.

Quote from: Omega;1059855One came across last year was the Dyatlov Pass incident where some winter hikers in Russia all mysteriously died.

My first thought was simple hypothermia; once you're in it you can paradoxically start feeling hot and undress, and then you're really in trouble.  But it could be Lemmino's scenario instead, or in addition.

Which is not helpful for gaming scenarios I guess, but fortunately you've got a couple of ways to go there.  For CoC you'd want Dead Mountain to be hiding some horrific being that lead the natives to give it that name, or for the rumors of UFOs to be correct.  Or... was it the expedition leader all along, already corrupt and leading people to a sacrifice?
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