What if Nessie controlled the world?

[Asmor]

I picked up Lords of Madness on a whim, and I've fallen in love with Aboleths... And I was thinking...

What if Nessie (the Loch Ness Monster) were an ancient Aboleth?

Stranded in Loch Ness long ago, it has waited for human civilization to advance to a degree where they'd be capable of transporting it out... However, by the time that happened, human weaponry (especially bombs) had advanced sufficiently that they could easily destroy it if its existence became known, so being transported out of Loch Ness would be a bad proposition... So now it uses its influence (and it has its tentacles in all the major governments, if you'll excuse the expression) to bring about global warming and flood Ireland (and the rest of the world, incidentally, but ya can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs...).

The cool thing about this is that Nessie would be very, very easy to detect with sonar, but everyone who tries to becomes enslaved to it and the results are falsified... I'm thinking it would be really... interesting to have some characters go out there, go through the whole routine, not find anything, and then when they get back be presented with video evidence that they had in fact met the "monster" and had been brainwashed by it.

 

[SWBaxter]

So now it uses its influence (and it has its tentacles in all the major governments, if you'll excuse the expression) to bring about global warming and flood Ireland (and the rest of the world, incidentally, but ya can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs...).

Loch Ness is actually in Scotland, not Ireland. It's connected to both the North and Irish seas by the Caledonian Canal, so all Nessie would really need to do in order to get out is get enough of the staff associated with the canal under control and make her escape one dark night.

OTOH, maybe she already controls them. The Caledonian Canal is interesting because it was poorly designed - too shallow for merchant shipping at the time it was first built (between 1803 and 1822), deepened in 1847 but by that time the ships were too large, and nowadays used mostly by pleasure craft. Maybe Nessie had control over the design, it's big enough for her to come and go but not so big that it gets major commercial traffic that might discover her. That would be another reason why she's never found by serious researchers, she can easily leave the loch any time she likes.

So far as controlling the world goes, pioneering economist Adam Smith was Scottish, and his ideas influence economic theories to this day. Clearly, he was one of Nessie's pawns. If she's also been grabbing his students, and his students' students, and so on, then she'd have a pretty extensive secret society made up of people mostly believed to be laissez-faire capitalists... the very last people you'd expect to be a giant conspiracy, of course.

Edit - glancing over Smith's Wikipedia entry, I notice he was briefly kidnapped by gypsies at age 4. Clearly, that's when Nessie got him.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Very cool thread. I must admit the irony of capitalists being controlled by an alien creature is attractive, even though I am one myself.

 

[Ymdar]

LOL!

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Ooo, it's like an even STRANGER game of Illuminati.

Me likey.

--fje

 

[Kelleris]

Very cool thread. I must admit the irony of capitalists being controlled by an alien creature is attractive, even though I am one myself.

A capitalist? ...or an alien creature?

The logical way to go from here is to give sinister conspiracy-style origins to other famous monsters. Hmm...

(Note: This post partly intended to subscribe to this thread. I wish to follow the craziness.)

 

[Asmor]

Loch Ness is actually in Scotland, not Ireland. It's connected to both the North and Irish seas by the Caledonian Canal, so all Nessie would really need to do in order to get out is get enough of the staff associated with the canal under control and make her escape one dark night.

Scotland, Ireland, same damn thing when you're a graduate of the American school system. Just be happy I got the right continent.

That's the real reason the US never kicked into high gear as far as colonialism goes... We have too hard a time figuring out where everyone is.

A capitalist? ...or an alien creature?

The logical way to go from here is to give sinister conspiracy-style origins to other famous monsters. Hmm...

(Note: This post partly intended to subscribe to this thread. I wish to follow the craziness.)

Oooh...

Sadly, I'm drawing a blank. :/

btw, you can subscribe to a thread with the "Thread tools" link above the first post on the page, on the right.

 

[Kelleris]

Oh, I know. Just figured I might as well try to find something interesting to say in the process of subscribing you know. Consider that an official endorsement of this thread!

 

[Desdichado]

Good idea. But, and of course you know this, Nessie does already control the world.

Lords of Madness is a great book all around; I'm tempted greatly to cross-pollinate into Cthulhu.

 

[Prest0]

I haven't read Lords of Madness, but I like the way you're thinking. Less than an hour ago I was asking myself what I would do if I ever photographed a bigfoot. Release the evidence to the world and doom the creatures to being mercilessly hunted and captured, or say "Cool" and go about my business? Maybe the reason those creatures are rarely spotted is that they are agents for an even greater power. They come and go as they please, working their unfathomable mysteries. One day their moment will come and all will be reveiled. And we won't like it.

... or something like that.