Army raids coastal towns in Massachusetts in 1927?

[Wycen]

This reminded me of a battle between Puritans and I think Catholics in New England, sometime around one of the changes in Kings of England in the 17th century. I think.

I can't remember enough details to find the wiki article, but if you can find it it may provide some sort of inspiration for your game.

 

[Umbran]

*and since it's White Wolf, I use "nod" to mean "rip off", as their entire WoD is one big Anne Rice rip off...

Now, now, let us be fair - the WoD is a patchwork of several different ripoffs.

 

[Samnell]

In the Hunter the Vigil book under Task Force Valkyrie I starts with a list of facts that conspiracy theorists love. One of them is "Fact: in December 1927, the US Army raided a number of towns in Massachusetts. The towns no longer exist. Their inhabitants vanished."

Made up. Whole towns do not vanish without traces, and they certainly do not do so in a peaceful modern country with nobody noticing. We have records of far less impactful events. The people living there had relations and friends outside the towns who would have noticed that their loved ones did not write back, did not answer their phones if they had them, and did not appear for scheduled visits. Eventually one of them would have gone to check it out in person and find the bombed-out buildings, the abandoned buildings, or the razed ground where buildings once stood.

The Army might be able to censor its own records effectively (although sloppy redaction isn't actually unusual on FOIA requests) but the nearby towns and the like would have noticed that their neighbors vanished. Had towns gone missing, especially several in the space of a month, we'd have noticed. We have plenty of records of small towns depopulated by the Influenza, which had roughly the same impact we would expect of a town being disappeared by armed force.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Whole towns do not vanish without traces, and they certainly do not do so in a peaceful modern country with nobody noticing. We have records of far less impactful events. The people living there had relations and friends outside the towns who would have noticed that their loved ones did not write back, did not answer their phones if they had them, and did not appear for scheduled visits. Eventually one of them would have gone to check it out in person and find the bombed-out buildings, the abandoned buildings, or the razed ground where buildings once stood.

While it is much less possible the farther along the timeline you travel, whole human settlements- some quite large- have disappeared without record of why.

Roanoke, Machu Pichu, Chavín de Huantar, Angkor Wat, and even some villages in Norfolk (Map of Vanished Villages in Norfolk) have all had their populations mysteriously disappear.

In most cases, it is speculated that disease or other natural forces made the populace travel to more hospitable places. In some cases, war & genocide are the probable culprits.

But the bottom line is that the mysteries are as yet unsolved.

 

[Korgoth]

This is obviously a reference to Innsmouth, the famous town from "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft.

I am regretfully obliged to inform everyone who did *not* know that that they are required to turn in their Geek Union card and be forever banished to the dreary outlands of scabdom.

 

[jaerdaph]

Now, now, let us be fair - the WoD is a patchwork of several different ripoffs.

That is very true, but to really be fair I should note that the pseudo-intellectualism that ties it all together is 100% pure White Wolf.

 

[Umbran]

I am regretfully obliged to inform everyone who did *not* know that that they are required to turn in their Geek Union card and be forever banished to the dreary outlands of scabdom.

"You're not a geek unless you are my kind of geek," is soooo 20th century. Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the Geek Union is inclusive now. Geekitude is about quality, not particular course curricula.

 

[Korgoth]

"You're not a geek unless you are my kind of geek," is soooo 20th century. Maybe you didn't get the memo, but the Geek Union is inclusive now. Geekitude is about quality, not particular course curricula.

You didn't get the reference to Innsmouth, dude. You're out of the club. Those are the rules... there's nothing I can do.

PRINCIPAL MOSS: Teacher's statement...response from the parents...okay, looks like all our ducks are in a row. Peggy, you're fired.
PEGGY: But the Dooleys forgave me!
PRINCIPAL MOSS: Let's see -- there's nothing in here about forgiveness.

 

[Achan hiArusa]

Now, now, let us be fair - the WoD is a patchwork of several different ripoffs.

Oh, you mean like Dungeons & Dragons.

 

[Crothian]

I guess I got my answer. Thanks for the few of you that were helpful.