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--Initial--
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King/Lovecraft milieu. I.e., normal situation that becomes more and
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more horrific. Much of it underground?
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* Major obstacle: something Cthulhuoid that can (a) possess people
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(b) duplicate people/things perfectly. (Like original version of
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"The Thing.") Perhaps it's even an (at base) mechanical creature,
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or a hive intelligence? Of course, it's totally supernatural in its
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abilities (this is deliberate, as it accentuates the feeling of
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violation of natural law that occasions horror).
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Perhaps this thing initially seems to be a vampire? Then you can
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have the fun of thinking you know the solution (crosses/stakes, etc.)
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and being totally wrong. It could even chortlingly suck you in and
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then turn on you.
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Thing should have an evil human assistant who is one of the obstacles
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(like Renfield in Dracula). This could be a scientist who thinks it's
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a higher/better form of life.
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* Nightmare sequence that appears real and turns out to be real (at
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least in part).
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* What is horrible? Not just gore. Gore is boring, and besides,
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gore is visual. Something sneaking up behind you is scarier,
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particularly since you are sitting at a terminal and can't turn
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around.
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* Ultimate problem is getting into its "burrow", where it's building
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thousands/millions/zillions! of similar creatures to take over the
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world. How do you stop it? Good question!
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--4/7/86--
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Set the game in an MIT-like environment. This allows a computer
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sequence. Perhaps the frob has wormed its way into an Athena-like
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LAN.
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Frob has lived under the ground forever. Every so often, activity
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on the surface disturbs it. Indians, Puritans, etc. Now, new
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construction at the university has awakened it. (Perhaps the evil
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professor detected it?) It's snarfing undergrads for various uses,
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such as raw material for its offspring. It's tapping into the
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phone and network lines.
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How much gore? For example, if the frob is taking over people, they
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could be pretty gored up. Even worse if it's laying eggs in them,
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and the froblets are hatching (yuck). I'm reminded of the baby
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dragons eating the princess in Dragonslayer. There's also the whole
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Stephen King tradition of rotting bodies to consider.
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--4/14/86--
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Write in first person.
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--4/16/86--
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Some events:
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* Bargaining with a hacker for (a) access to a computer or account
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you can't otherwise get into. (b) master keys.
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* Rats in a subbasement with a dirt floor.
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* Mob of enslaved Cambridge urchins.
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* Return from the dead of a helper (perhaps the hacker). Tries to convince
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you it's all for the best.
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Some interesting places:
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* Tomb of the Unknown Tool.
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* Plasma Fusion Center.
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* Steam tunnels (including blocked-off ones).
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* Top of Green Building.
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* Computer Center.
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