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| Renee |
Aug 26 2018, 02:54 PM
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I finally sat down the other day and really read a Lovecraft story, Mammoth Cave, also known as The Beast in the Cave. Was surprised to learn he was only fourteen when he wrote this tale!  So I decided to make a thread listing a variety of Lovecraft influences in Bethesda games, and here it is. I'm sure these influences can be found in other games, as well as other media altogether, so feel free to add these as you'd like as well. It struck me though. The Beast in the Cave features a pale-skinned creature with snow-white hair, which the protagonist kills toward the end of the tale. Before he killed this creature, he could only hear its footfalls (he was in total darkness), and apparently the creature alternated between walking on two feet, and walking on four feet. After killing it, he managed to find the tour guide he'd gotten separated from. He and the guide were then able to return to the creature, and were able to see it with a torch. At the very end of the tale, the protagonist describes the creature he'd killed as having once been a MAN!!! ... There is an implication that this MAN once lived aboveground, perhaps. Because it's impossible for him to have been born underground. And to me, this sounds like a reference to the falmer of Skyrim, who also once were an aboveground-living race, called snow elves.
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| TheCheshireKhajiit |
Jul 5 2020, 04:15 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Jul 4 2020, 09:49 PM)  I had not heard this news. Though sadly, just because he still wants to make it, does not mean he will be able to. Tbh though, I am glad he did not make a version with Tom Cruise. That would have been awful, not matter how well he did the rest of the movie. I would love to see him team up with Sean Branney and Andrew Leman from HPHLS, and do a low budget version. Their Call of Cthulhu and Whisper In Darkness movies were great, albeit cheap.
Now watch, he will make it with Nic Cage instead... Though granted, the Color Out Of Space movie he was in was good.
Lol, when I read that about Tom Cruise I was like “ew” 
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| mirocu |
Jul 5 2020, 12:33 PM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Aug 26 2018, 05:09 PM)  After all, that is not dead which can eternal lie...  "Yet with strange aeons, even death may die"  On the subject, I like CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth. Haven't played it but I've watched a playthrough of it. Kinda neat game, if only it had been developed for the PC and not just ported.
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| SubRosa |
Jul 5 2020, 07:03 PM
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Jul 5 2020, 07:33 AM)  QUOTE(SubRosa @ Aug 26 2018, 05:09 PM)  After all, that is not dead which can eternal lie...  "Yet with strange aeons, even death may die"  On the subject, I like CoC: Dark Corners of the Earth. Haven't played it but I've watched a playthrough of it. Kinda neat game, if only it had been developed for the PC and not just ported. Wow, nothing is more appropriate than some thread necromancy on a Lovecraft topic! 
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| TheCheshireKhajiit |
Jul 6 2020, 12:46 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Jul 5 2020, 01:03 PM)  Wow, nothing is more appropriate than some thread necromancy on a Lovecraft topic!  Cheshire Khajiit: Thread Reanimator This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Jul 6 2020, 12:46 AM
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| SubRosa |
Aug 13 2020, 02:17 AM
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| SubRosa |
Aug 21 2020, 10:59 PM
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| TheCheshireKhajiit |
Aug 21 2020, 11:09 PM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Aug 21 2020, 04:59 PM)  Kinda reminds me of the vampire ladies in the Darkstalkers fighting game series!
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
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| macole |
Aug 22 2020, 03:54 PM
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QUOTE(TheCheshireKhajiit @ Aug 21 2020, 05:09 PM)  QUOTE(SubRosa @ Aug 21 2020, 04:59 PM)  Kinda reminds me of the vampire ladies in the Darkstalkers fighting game series! Yes it does.
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| SubRosa |
Aug 25 2020, 02:27 AM
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| SubRosa |
Sep 6 2020, 08:04 AM
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| TheCheshireKhajiit |
Feb 16 2021, 03:32 AM
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QUOTE(SubRosa @ Feb 15 2021, 07:35 PM)  Scientists have discovered strange life forms under the Antarctic ice. An expedition from Miskatonic University is being dispatched to investigate. Lol oh noez!! Shoggoths!!
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"Family is an odd thing, is it not? Defined by blood, separated by blood, joined by blood. In the end, it's all just blood." -Dhaunayne Aundae
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| SubRosa |
Sep 7 2021, 05:10 AM
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