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I am, at heart, a horribly, HORRIBLY lazy person who believes that if the Gods had not wanted us to use the real world in our RP they would not have made it so innately interesting. One does not have to labour overtime to ensure that one hasn't put the desert spang up against the jungle if one is using the geography of the real world, albeit slightly transplanted. One needn't explain why the Chinese are packed right up against the Italians if one is using New York City to play in, because that's just how the city worked out. Need something simultaneously implausible and scary in the way of background colour or antagonists? How about Russo-Canadian anarchist nudists? You can't make this stuff up, but YOU DON'T HAVE TO. It's right there. It's real.

I make a lot of stuff up when I set to work on plots, but you should consider this your warning: if you're RPing with me, and some element of mine seems excessively ludicrous, there's a really good chance that I'm pulling it from reality because only in reality could you get away with it.

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( This is for those of you who are interested in the Frozen Horrors, Frozen North plot I'm going to be running for Ray. )

That being said, be aware that I've been reading the following Mythos stories in search of inspiration and preparation material for this plot:

The Dunwich Horror
At The Mountains Of Madness
The Color Out Of Space
Beyond The Wall Of Sleep
The Silver Key
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Call of Cthulhu

The Space-Eaters
The Hounds of Tindalos

... and of course the Michael Reaves Real Ghostbusters episode "Collect Call of Cathulhu". No, that's not a misspelling, that's how it reads on the title card. Also the episode "Russian About", although that one was badly affected by several years' worth of ABC's insistence on 'make it less scary so it'll be more suitable for children!', so it's not nearly as good.