Place Question Driving Me Crazy!

[megamania]

Nothing I can think of but it sounds like an awesome game idea all the same. Reminds me of Earth: Hades from The One.

 

[Mark Chance]

Thanks for all the help so far. I did have a flash, which could be yet another "memory" instead of an actual memory. I may have read about this place in a Call of Cthulhu game book, which means it could very well be fictional. I pretty sure it was one of the theme books, like Cthulhu by Gaslight rather than an adventure.

Does that help anyone who can find their old CoC easier than me?

 

[Brazeku]

It sounds like a form of dungeon with the rather pretty name "Oubliette" (roughly, little place of forgetting).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oubliette

I don't know if the place you are talking about exists, specifically, but it wouldn't be a stretch of the imagination.

 

[diaglo]

I have a vague but persistent recollection of reading about a prison that I think was somewhere either in North Africa or the Middle East around the beginnings of the 20th century. This prison was allegedly a mine and/or series of caves which had been converted into a mass holding area for criminals who were basically just dropped into darkness and left to kill each other for meager resources and eventually die.

Was this a real place? Help?

real world?

in nicaragua under the dictator samosa he would execute prisoners by dropping them from a copter into an active volcano. not all would die from the fall as the volcano was very old and hardly active and the ground was silt mostly. still it would be enough for them to be incapacitated. if they didn't die from the fall or internal bleeding eventually they would succumb to the fumes. volcano gases ain't healthy.

hardly a long term prison.

does that help?

edit: now there is a cross on the site. and the names of some of those who were killed there.

 

[diaglo]

I have a vague but persistent recollection of reading about a prison that I think was somewhere either in North Africa or the Middle East around the beginnings of the 20th century. This prison was allegedly a mine and/or series of caves which had been converted into a mass holding area for criminals who were basically just dropped into darkness and left to kill each other for meager resources and eventually die.

Was this a real place? Help?

you could also be thinking of a turkish prison.

one of the rules of old turkish prison was that the prisoners had to beg for their food from those outside the prison thru a small hole in the wall.

edit: a made up example of which was in midnight on the orient express iirc.

 

[Huw]

Does that help anyone who can find their old CoC easier than me?

Definitely a CoC book. I have it, but not readily accessible. I believe it was the 3rd ed hardback CoC rulebook, which included the Cthulhu Companion and a third book. The book included several other prisons.

Give me a day and I'll dig it out.

 

[Mark Chance]

Definitely a CoC book. I have it, but not readily accessible. I believe it was the 3rd ed hardback CoC rulebook, which included the Cthulhu Companion and a third book. The book included several other prisons.

Give me a day and I'll dig it out.

I think I love you.

 

[WayneLigon]

edit: a made up example of which was in midnight on the orient express iirc.

Midnight Express.

 

[diaglo]

how about this one?

Chronology of Some of the Anti-Jewish Measures in Poland:
October 1939:
Jews are liable for forced labor. They can be picked up off the streets for work at manual labor jobs such as digging ditches, shoveling snow, and cleaning streets.

Synagogues destroyed throughout General Gouvernement.

Jews forbidden from certain areas of major cities in General Gouvernement.

November 1939:

Jews must wear identifying star on their clothing.

Every Jewish community must elect a Jewish Council. After the formation of the ghettos the Jewish Councils became the governing bodies, trying to provide social services, but also serving the German authorities by delivering Jews for forced labor, and deportations to the death camps.

All Jewish bank deposits frozen. Jews can withdraw only $50.00 per week.

December 1939:

Jews can not change residence.

Curfew for Jews enforced from 9 PM to 5 AM.

January 1940:

Jews can not travel by train without special permission.

Jews are required to register ownership of all property, including clothing, furniture, and jewelry.

April 1940:

First major ghetto built, at Lodz. Curfews in the ghettos are enforced from 7 PM to 7 AM.

October 1940:

Warsaw ghetto built. The city's Jewish population is sealed inside.

Mass deportations of Jews, Gypsies, and Poles from other Nazi-occupied countries to the General Gouvernement area of Poland begins. Since the death camps are not built yet, they are first sent to the overcrowded ghettos.

March 1941:

Crackow ghetto built.

October 1941:

Jews forbidden to leave ghettos on pain of death.

Gentiles who knowingly help Jews are subject to the death penalty.

December 1941:

Lvov ghetto formed, the third largest in Poland. Most of the ghettos in Poland were established by the beginning of 1942.

Death camps begin operations. Poland is the site of six major concentration camps set up to kill Jews: Lublin, Kulmhof, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Auschwitz.

March 1942:

Jews from Lublin ghetto deported to Belzec death camp.

July-December 1942:

300,00 people deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka death camp.

March 1943:

Crackow ghetto liquidated.

April 1943:

Attempt to liqudate Warsaw ghetto is met with unexpected armed resistance.

May 1943:

The Warsaw ghetto is liquidated.

June 1943:

The Lvov ghetto is liquidated.

Late 1943 until liberation in 1945:

The pattern is repeated in every city with a ghetto population: Those able to work are organized into slave labor battalions to produce goods for the German military. Everyone else must fend for themselves. Food supplies are at starvation levels. Lack of santitation and overcrowding promote the rapid spread of disease, especially typhus, resulting in an extremely high mortality rate. Periodic mass deportations from the ghettos to the death camps are followed by an influx of newly arrived Jews from all areas of the German Reich.

edit: http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Makuch/conditionsp.html

 

[Mark Chance]

Chronology of Some of the Anti-Jewish Measures in Poland

I had the great pleasure of briefly consulting an Auschwitz survivor while researching the Warsaw ghetto uprising for a history paper my junior year at university. I once ran a prematurely ended campaign revolving around dwarves living under drow occupation loosely inspired by said events.