Crazy mivehind, I spent all this morning reading about number stations.

>>10704347
Peripheral Vision Lurkers.
Can't look directly at them, they'll not be there. But they're real.

>>10704428
I read that as BusEyes, and that made it more bizarre.

>>10704467
Now you gone and made me paranoid

the creature from the thing
put that in a campaign and do it well players will freak out

Give the character real reliability on the radio for a mission, they call for backup they get back up, all that jazz.
They chase down this guy to an old collapsing building, they are clearly outgunned, they call for back up, and the guy laughs, they clearly hear it being scrambled into a call for artillery

OH GOD! NUMBERS STATIONS ARE CREEPY AS FUCK WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LEARN ABOUT THEM! OH GOD!

>>10704347
>Number station
>read in a child's voice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdnoAJ7KoFE
Like this one? I've always found this one rather eerie, between the little music box jingle, the little girl's voice, and the distortion.

A dog whose lower half is replaced with a stereo and his eyes and mouth are replaced with speakers. Blood consistently drools from aforementioned speakers. It communicates in amplified wails of pain.

Cool number station shit you could do with a party.

They go and investigate an underground base or lab in a city. The party returns above ground, the city is destroyed, the sky is blood red. The only signal of any kind they can receive is from an unknown number station somewhere nearby. It sounds something like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/UVB-76.ogg

>>10705110

FUCK

Fun fact: There are regular number stations that you can tune in to.
Either LIVE while you play or you can record one.

If possible, find some way to slightly fuck with the air pressure in the room you're in. A bit of humidity also helps.

And the power of infrasound to disturb cannot be over-emphasized.

>>10705002

You won't realize why for a bit, but you are so very welcome.

Also, you should research it more. Via The Conet Project (Google that. Awesome times).

That's funny i spent all yesterday listening to numberstations and generally browsing the high-frequency shortwave band

>>10705133
Or you could just download the recordings from the internet.
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/

>>10705211
but i mean live number stations, come on.
Spooky

>>10705110

note to self: make sure that you're not expecting the volume level of your system to be the volume of what's coming out of winamp.

be back in a bit, folks... going to change my pants.

>>10705240
You also said to record them.
Up to you though, I was just pointing out a directory where a lot of numbers station recordings could be found.

>>10705252
>>10705252

OH GOD IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO

>>10705155

If you're in to Russian number station shit, also google Dead Hand. Otherwise known as Russia's automated nuke the rest of the planet switch. Scary.

Oh yeah, number stations. nWoD has stuff about that.

>>10705110
Oh hey they call that one the buzzer.
That's not a number station per se.

>>10705339
Oh ry'leh?

>>10705342

Yeah, as I said above, it's believed to be part of the former Soviet Onion's Dead Hand switch. A device used to prevent the ruskies from being unable to launch a retaliatory strike in the face of a massive US preemptive attack.

Number stations, FROM UNDER THE SEA.
Mind warping descent into chaos follows.

>>10705375
It's in summoners

>>10705375
Funny you should say that, because it's ghosts trying to summon cthulhu

>>10705375
Ya, ry'leh.

Ghosts from the Underworld are behind it, they're trying to open an apocalyptic portal to the blackest depths of the Underworld and bring their chthonic titan tentacle worm horrors that want to eat the world and everyone on it forever.

Lincolnshire Poacher a MI5 numbers station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua94OV9Ter8&feature=related

Also related,
The Pip, The Squeaky Wheel and The Buzzer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8LQMDQAoVk

>>10705428
Bend over, I'm fucking your ass

>>10705398

"Sir, we've detected audio signals much akin to our Number Stations. We've yet to deTRDAAGGH cthullu...CTHULLU FTANG."
-Screams
-Inaudible
-Message Ends-

>>10705375
Yeah, it's retarded.
Ghosts summoning cthulhu retarded

>>10705110

That sound creeps the heck out of me, and undescribably so. Thanks.

>>10705449
trite as fuck.

>>10705448
Will you always greet my like that? *bends over*

>>10705505
*me

>ry'leh?

It's R'lyeah.

>>10705505
Any time I see you.

I plan on fucking your ass at every opportunity.

>>10705505
Not gonna lie, I ever met you in real life, I'd probably bend you over the nearest table and pound your ass while jerking you off.

Fate is telling me no to go to sleep

>>10705577
>>10705643
Luckily, I don't mind.

Why did this become about fucking this blackheart guys ass?

What the fuck

>>10705740
add blackhearts ass to a campaign it's a demonic portal anyone who sees it has to fuck it

>>10705740
Well, you have to admit that it fits under the theme of "creepy shit to add to campaigns".

>>10705211

Hey, the coup plotter broadcast is on there!

(God bless you, Ukraine team 6.)

>>10705762
>demonic anus
that almost seems traumatizing enough to use

So what are some fun frequencies for live number stations one could tune into?

>>10707782
You see a man's anus roll a will save to see if you can resist fucking it

rolled 3 = 3

>>10708728
What's the DC?

>>10708218
http://www.archive.org/details/ird059

>>10708751
Fuck, I failed my "Don't fuck his ass check" didn't I?

>>10704347
>Creepy shit to add to campaigns.
>Number station broadcasts, especially if read in a child's voice can be creepy as shit

Actually, yeah. They are. Especially if it's dark out and nobody knows where it's coming from or their purpose.

Morse code, or even just an unintelligible string of seemingly random beeps can freak me the fuck out, too.

...so what's a number station and why are they scary?

The hell would a numbers station be read by a child?

>>10708814
Radio station that's just a voice repeating numbers for no discernible reason. It's probably something for spies, but not even declassified black-ops documents from the US or Russia have notes on them, so...

>>10708814
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

>>10708830
Exactly.

>>10708856
Odds are good that they're messages transmitted in cipher. Really nothing creepy about it. For creepy, or more accurately insane, check out Dead Hand.

Was an automated retaliation protocol set up by the USSR at the height of the Cold War intended to ensure that in the event of an American preemptive nuclear strike, Russia could retaliate even if its entire government was wiped out. It came so close to being fully automated - if various radio towers were hit and stopped transmitting, seismic sensors reported abnormal activity, etc... it would initiate an automated nuclear counterstrike against the US. However, the Russians realized how bat shit insane this was, and the system was implemented only being semi-automated.

Dead Hand is still operational.

>>10708932
WHAT'S THE POINT OF AN AUTO FUCK YOU SYSTEM IF THE OTHER SIDE DOESN'T KNOW YOU HAVE IT

>child's voice
>creepy
so tired of this cliche

>>10708948
I'm fairly certain the US was aware of it.

>>10708956
It's become cliched because it works.

>>10708956
Listen to one of them.

then complain it isn't creepy.

If it's not creepy, you're jaded and nothing can creep you out anymore. Don't play CoC.

>>10708932
One of the Dead Hand stations is still apparently broadcasting. It's simply a radio station that has a buzzer placed next to a microphone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

>>10708978
>>10708948
>>10708932
You now realise that in ANY nuclear war scenario, the USA will be the aggressor. The Soviets didn't make any attack plans. They considered it futile.

>>10708985
Works for some people.

If you want inspiration for creepy shit, there was a copypasta list of bizarre Wikipedia articles circulating on /x/ a few months back. Dunno if it still is, haven't been to /x/ in months.

Dyatlov Pass would be a good thing to look into. I think it would be perfect to slip that in to a WoD campaign.

>>10709049
Cracked.com (of all places) has a pretty good article debunking the Dyatlov Pass stuff.

My personal suggestion would be the Taman Shud case. In 1948 a unidentified man was found on a beach in Australia, And then it got really weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Masks_Case
A boy named Jorge da Costa Alves (who was 18 at that time) was flying a kite at the Morro do Vintém (Vintém Hill), in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil when he found two dead men. Immediately, he made his way back home and called the police. Soon the spot was full of police officers, firefighters and journalists.

The bodies were next to each other, slightly covered by grass. They were wearing suits, lead masks and water-proof coats. There was no sign of violence to the bodies or to the surrounding area. Next to the bodies, the police found an empty bottle of water and a packet containing two towels. The masks were a type typically used for protection from radiation, and it is these masks that have given the case its name. Police found a small notebook stating: "16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal máscara", which translates to "16:30 be at the agreed place. 18:30 swallow capsules, after effect protect metals wait for sign mask [or 'mask sign']".

In February 1948, distress calls were picked up by numerous ships near Indonesia. The SOS calls came from the Dutch freighter SS Ourang Medan. The signals claimed, "All officers including captain are dead lying in chartroom and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead." This message was followed by indecipherable Morse code then, "I die."

Within hours of the first distress signals, the first rescue ship arrived on the scene. Upon arrival, the rescue vessel tried to hail the Ourang Medan but there was no response to their hand and whistle signals. A boarding party was sent to the ship and what they found was astonishing. All the crew and officers of the Ourang Medan were dead, their eyes open, faces looking towards the sun, arms outstretched and a look of terror on their faces. Even the ship's dog was dead, found snarling at some unseen enemy. When nearing the bodies in the boiler room, the rescue crew felt a chill though the temperature was near 110°F.

The decision was made to tow the ship back to port. As the ship was prepared to be towed, smoke began rolling up from the hull. The rescue crew left the ship and barely had time to cut the tow lines before the Ourang Medan exploded and sank.

>>10709098
The Cracked article is, at best, retarded. I could pick away at it, but I've had this very same conversation so many times on /x/ that I've lost the patience to have it again.

Not saying that there was anything supernatural about the Dyatlov Pass incident, just that the Cracked article is baseless conjecture masquerading as fact.

Anyhow, checking out the Taman Shud article.

>>10709122
How to troll the public: a beginners guide.

>>10709158
But on the other hand, It's a hell of a lot more logical than "UFOS DID IT!"

>>10709150
>Even the ship's dog was dead, found snarling at some unseen enemy.
>dog dead, still snarling

I admit that would be quite a creepy thing to see.

http://mikeandsniffy.co.uk/vlt/zz/S28_4625_07.57_21.2.06.mp3
WAT

>>10709150


it wasn't undecipherable. it was "HE COMES! HE WHO LURKS BEHIND THE WALLS OF REALITY! ZALGO!"

Even though it's not "real", I'm still fairly partial to this story.

http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-741

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Eihpmsz7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDT1WWJpa9U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRzCbolcnag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSwHlC_jtI
God fucking damnit, something's out there.

>>10709193
But still gets you no closer to knowing what actually happened. I never said it was aliens or anything like that. I'm willing to say I don't know what happened at Dyatlov Pass rather than put forth some inane dribble which may or may not have happened just because it is conceivably possible with utter disregard for a lack of evidence substantiating my theory. Whatever.

>>10709150
> indecipherable Morse code
That's an oxymoron.

Bump for more creepiness.

So, I read this before going to bed last night.

Thanks for the nightmares, /tg/.

How about this?

The party stops at a small inn in the middle of the woods. There's a small cabin out back. The party is treated well by the host, fine meal and all, but one of them senses it's odd. One of the party member sneaks off at night (hope you got a sneaky type in your party) to see what's in the cabin. To their horror, it's a whole family, butchered and slain. That character then runs to tell the rest of the party. From here you can branch into:
-the party wakes up, kills the innkeeper, but later found out that the innkeeper isn't the killer.
-the rest of the party is already slain by the innkeeper.
-the party wakes up and finds the innkeeper similarly butchered in the innkeeper's own room. WHO WAS INNKEEPER

And as an added bonus, that tasty meat last night? That ain't pork.

one creepy thing i like is from silent hill, the radio fades into static whenever monsters are around. it is a surprisingly creepy effect. What if we combined a few different things here and said the radio usually plays sinatra and dizzie gillespie or the big bopper, but when the robotic minions of mr.x are around it his crypto-control channel overwhelms the signal. i could see that playing out creepy as hell if you did it right

Sound

Horror is based on sharp contrasts. Sound goes a very long way toward that. I use Atmosphere Deluxe, but there's a free light version and other sample players.

Normality is established with street sounds, traffic, people talking, children playing, maybe some birds, and Easy Listening music.
Mystery scenes get spooky score and unexpected sudden sounds like night birds, things rustling or crashing to the ground, and first subliminal sounds of a soothing character.
Horror gets wicked shit like Kronos Quartet mixed with mean subliminal aggravators and the occasional stressed heartbeat or heavy breathing.

Dim the lights a little, turn up the AC, put a CD with occasional short disturbing sounds on repeat in the other room and NEVER play during daylight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M3Rpy3tv50

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

I once used RF Whistlers for an adventure where the radio was constantly on the fritz.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suisun_Bay
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_disaster
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aokigahara
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derweze
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/SetsSearchExecXC.asp?srchtype=ITEM
http://www.liveatc.net/

I had an internship with the CIA and was assigned to assist a field agent search for sources of SSTV radio broadcasts. I wasn't allowed to know where we were, but it was obvious we were in Alaska, or Canada given the fact that day break lasted the entire week.

Most of what we were looking for were just SSTV broadcasts left over from the cold war. It's amazing they were still operating, their water wheels should have frozen over.

Basically we went to a point on snowmobile, listened for a broadcast, checked the image and went on.

I don't know if you've ever heard an SSTV broadcast, but it's fucking creepy.

Anyway we're pretty much done when we pick up a signal that isn't supposed to be there. Looking at the image it showed up it was clear is was not by a river and must be some one else's. He thought it was a a Russian spy camera, I thought it was a hunter's.

We picked up some radiation from our Geiger counter and stumbled on a crater with what looked like an old soviet rocket with a cluster engine. We went too far out of our way to continue on and a blizzard was picking up so we took a few pictures and set up camp a few hundred yards away under some trees.

We were going over the mystery broadcast again in out tent when a different image began to show up. The scan was slow, but it was an aerial view of our camp.

We panicked and grabbed out guns but there was nothing in the sky.

Then all of a sudden a noise rang out. It was unbearably loud and shook the earth. It sounded almost like a whale's song. It went on for about a minute and then stopped.

So did our mystery broadcast.

Children laughter. Everywhere dark. If they follow it they'll find a dead body with a doll next to it. Everytime.

>>10710765
Don't forget that dread can also be built up with an utter lack of sound when it would otherwise be normal.

>>10711230

>Antikythera Mechanism
This thing could accurately plot solar, planetary and lunar positions, account for the leap year every 4 years about a century before they were put into calandars, mapped geographical locations in the mediterranean and had a detailed instruction manual which named countries that didnt exist yet.

Isn't it clear? THIS IS A TIME MACHINE.

>>10712229
>Detailed instruction manual which named countries that didn't exist yet.

>Isn't it clear?

It's a hoax.

>>10712863

BUT ANCIENT GREEK TIME TRAVELLERS.

How awesome would that be?

>>10712889
Paradoxically delicious.

I can't see anything about naming countries before they exist. Link me to this "source" or copy/paste it, please?

The visitors were here.

Maybe they still are...

>>10712973
I may have slightly embellished it, but in the "New Discoveries" part of the wikipedia article..

>The inscriptions led to a dating of the mechanism to around 100 BC. It is evident that they contain a manual with an astronomical, mechanical and geographical section. The name HISPANIA (ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑ, Spain in Greek) in these texts is the oldest reference to this country under this form, as opposed to Iberia.

>>10712994
Gonna need sources other than wikipedia here, bro.

God dammit, /x/ go back to your room.

Since we're talking about creepy soundclips, what's the name of that particular siren wail? It plays in Silent Hill 1 when the atmosphere goes dark. Like some dockworker lunch siren or something.

I plan on devising a horror campaign and i'm including things like certain SCP objects, mannequins, numbers stations, soundclips like the bloop etc and I need more creepy noises to set the mood.

when it's hot out, like it is now, my front door swells a little from the heat.
and it thumps.
when i'm reading creepy shit, or listening to these fucking number station broadcasts, and my door thumps like someone just kicked it.... brb, changing pants.

>>10713032
If you can find one, a track of the Regenerator's breathing from RE4 would be perfect. The Regenerator theme isn't too bad, either.

Creepy shit?
Lace.
Lace himself.

Creepiest thing you could put in anything

>>10713051
Edward is pretty fucktarded.

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY CHARACTER THAT THEIR BACKGROUND STORY THAT INVOLVES RAPE.

>>10713012

Nature Magazine, November 2006 issue. Published the results of a high-res Xray Tomography scan carried out by the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXQsQKGqIU

Yah yah dead space sue me. But add the idea of someone singing a lullaby in some kind of pain. Make player wonder where the singing come from, then make them forget about it, but out of nowhere remind them of the singing.
The strange thing is they are like on the other side from where they first hear it.

>>10709098
I'm partial to the story of the Monster with 21 Faces:

>It started with two armed men who broke into the home of the president of Glico, kidnapping him in front of his family. The men held the executive in a warehouse, calling the company and demanding 100 million Yen and 100 kilos of gold bullion. The victim escaped the warehouse before he could find out whether or not his company was willing to pay to ransom his ass. None of the bad guys were caught and that's too bad, because the "Monster" wasn't through.

>A couple of weeks later, several cars in the company parking lot were set on fire. Then, the "Monster" began to send letters.

>In the first letter (sent in a plastic container along with hydrochloric acid because why the hell not?) the Monster claimed they had poisoned Glico's candies, which resulted in Glico losing $21 million dollars worth of product that had to be pulled from shelves. The number may be a coincidence, but then again, who knows? The Monster taunted the police by detailing in a letter its method of entry, what typewriter it used to write the message and where it found the container with the acid in it. It didn't matter; cops scoured the country for them and came up empty.

>Soon enough, just to prove they were toying with everyone, the Monster suddenly sent a letter stating its forgiveness of Glico, and moved on.

>>10713194
>The Monster then turned its attention to another food company: Morinaga. Another letter was sent, similar to the Glico one, only this time, investigations turned up a total of 21 packages laced with the highly toxic sodium cyanide. Being the polite kind of shadowy creepy terrorist/terrorist group, the boxes were helpfully labeled with "Contains Toxins," an example all criminals should follow.

>The police, getting desperate, thought they caught a glimpse of the mastermind behind the Monster during a money drop (the group had demanded cash from another company). An officer described the criminal mastermind as a man having "eyes like those of a fox," which would give him the nickname "The Fox-Eyed Man."

>The same mysterious man was spotted again later, in a car during a sting operation. He escaped, but the cops found the car, and a radio transceiver that he had been using to listen into all of the police communications during the sting.

>So finally they've got a description of one of the bad guys! That resulted in... nothing. The Monster tormented several corporate giants for years, mocked the police, walked the streets as some of the most wanted men in the world and not a single one of them ever got caught. A police superintendent got so frustrated by being outmaneuvered by the Monster that he resigned in disgrace. Oh, wait, we misread that. He actually, committed suicide by fucking setting himself on fire.

>Before disappearing into the night like goddamned Keyser Soze, the "Monster" released a letter mocking the dead man, and announced it would stop torturing food companies, apparently taking this entire thing as some sort of childish game. The Monster's final words to the public:

>We are bad guys. That means we've got more to do other than bullying companies. It's fun to lead a bad man's life.

The monster had 21 faces, all of them Guy Fawkes masks.

>>10713097
The current happy-go-lucky cop hasn't featured rape yet.

It's probably only a matter of time, though.

>>10713051

eh what about lace

did he wank off a cat or something like edward? Because that's the only way he'll beat edward.

>>10713216
Edward and Lace are the same person.

rolled 25 = 25

>>10713032

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFqShcxaQ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeeq2fYbfGY

>>10713237

what a fantastically appropriate new name then

>>10711520
JESUS CHRIST.

How about a cat with hands?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvOL6qXs-Vg

>>10713249
AWESOME! thank you very much!

There is no end to the shit that can be used in a game to make it creepy as hell, but what I like to hear about are the things you can use out of character to help with the freakyness. I remember a little trick I learned from /tg/ shortly after /tg/ was born. It works best if the game is already a bit creepy and you have the players in the right mood.

"You open the door into the storage room. TYhe light from the hallway fills the room, reflecting off of the stacked metal boxes, the tears rolling down the your girls face, and a puddle of what you hope is motor oil in one corner. The door creaks loudly as it reached the end of its swing."

When the players try to have their characters go to the little girl to help her, look at them confused and say "What girl?"

It is very important that you say this with as much sincerity as you can muster. If you crack a smile at all, the effect goes from "WTFohgodohgod" to "The GM is being a dick".

There are so many incredibly fantastic, creepy and interesting things and facts popping up every day. I had a plan to make a website looking like a victorian era gazette collecting such things, taken from wikipedia, news articles, random internet shit. It would've been entitled "The Interesting Times". I just don't have the time.

>>10713287
Not scary so much as mindfucky.

>>10713388
Haha that's great! though even picturing that got me grinning. I really can't bring myself to do that at all.

>>10713408
Dude that's awesome! you really should find some time to do that!

I save threads like this all the time, even write down a long list of weird, scary or abandoned places in my journal just so if I ever get in the mood of visiting an interesting place, I have a list.

also, brownie points for Discworld reference.

>>10711520
You're full of shit.

Wyoming Incident. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3975322056162184320

The sound frequencies during the station hijack were enough to make some long-term viewers violently ill.

So, You'r PC's are a squad of mercenaries, directed by an AI commander diving into a enemy compound at the request of their immediate human commander. All's going to shit, but it's shit they can handle. They go in, blow the enemy to pieces, and then get stopped by a large vaulted door. Next to the door however, is a half walled up old wooden door. HQ is informed, scematics are brought up, and it is indeed, a side passage that leads around the vaulted door. They break the door down, and enter.

So, the passage before them in unlit, and the first thing they see is some sandbags, and various desks and other mundane furniture set up as a barricade. If they inspect the barricade at all, they would notice that it's set up in a way that it's killzones are pointing towards the door they just came in from. Moving down the corridor, they find that the walls have caved in at some places, forcing them to go through abandoned rooms, three sets in total, one down a hallway to the left, third door down, the second in a hallway to the right, first door, and the third being a sort of a lobby for the main administrative area.

>>10713772
Now, the place is overgrown, seemingly abandoned some time ago. As they approach the first cave in, comms with HQ cut out, if they go back towards the entrance, the comms seem to have malfunctioned, and would still be out. So onward the party presses. The hallway they would need to go down is longer then expected, indeed, if they have a HUD device, or really any sort of a map, they would notice that the hallway is much longer then what is shown, leaving the end of the hallway still in darkness. The rooms they pass are a mess, torn up, and the furniture thrown around. The third room they pass, they notice that the wall adjoining it has been broken down. If inspected, revealing that it was not caused by any sort of natural means. If any were to go further down the hallway, they would start the see that at the end of the hallway a smooth, black rock dominates what looks like a door frame. If the players continue to look at it for more then a few actions, or one of them inspects it, they must roll a willpower check.

>>10713726
video doesn't work and wikipedia-ing it leads to Something Awful :/

>>10713778

"You fell as if something freezes up in your gut, your hand starts shaking, but your mind is filled with a sweet, sickly scent. You reach out to touch the black rock..."

"Suddenly, before the tip of your finger touches it's unnaturally smooth surface, a hand shoots out, grabbing you at the wrist. Screaming fills the air, and a dread washes over the party as you all realize it isn't you."

So, the PC's have an encounter with the unknown. A obsidian, vaguely humanoid shape starts to crawl out of the stone, using the player it has grabbed as an anchor. If the player wrenches free of it's grasp, or the team uses armor piercing ammunition against it, the freed player is pushed to the back of the party, right next to the room connecting to the next hallway. The team, if they try to communicate at all, speaks now in an entirely different language. The wall buckles and growns, cracks beginning to show in the once smooth obsidian. Soon, skeletal alien creatures start shedding out of the stone, with long, clawed arms and crocodile like heads, the things move frighteningly fast. The team may either run, or open fire. Play the scene out entirely, ending on two conditions, the first being that the creatures, intent on capturing the team, succeed, or second, that the team escapes to the second hallway.

>>10713788

If they team stands and fights, they seem to only hold the creatures at bay with their firepower, but the creatures, far from being weak, seem to shrug off normal bullets, and only give to higher calibers or bullets designed for hard targets. Eventually, the team is overrun, the things dragging them back, and through the wall, any yells or communication, again, is in another language. Any inspection made by anyone but the one who initiated the contact reveals nothing, while the single other member reveals that they are a special operations team from either the enemies country/forces, or another country all together. Once combat ends with the parties demise, revert back to the scene where the person is grabbed.

It was all just a memory, or illusion. Whatever.

This gives the player a second chance to give warning, and move the party through to the other hallway.

>>10713772
>>10713778
This is not creepy in the slightest.

>>10713795
Fine. You know what? I won't post the rest of the adventure.

>>10710839
># People have pointed out that the location of the sound originated within 500 miles from the location of R'lyeh in the South Pacific, thus coincidentally linking the sound to the sleeping, Great Old One Cthulhu in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

>>10713850
I want to see the rest. Don't listen to just one guy being an asshat.

>>10713850
I thought it was interesting, and has good potential for midfuckery/creepyness. The alternate language thing can be fun and interesting, esp. if it stays with the players after the event. Good luck dealing with
HQ when you can't even prove who you are.

My suggestion, Red Spies. Nothing creepier than communist invisible Frenchmen with knives and make-up.

>>10713850

it has potential, but it feels more like you're trying to cram too much mindfuck into it.

Also, the barricades were facing away from these things? They should face toward, so as the party goes through, there is a real sense of dread..

>>10713850

I read the obsidian skin and crocodile heads and I immediately thought "jesus fuck xenomorphs."

>>10714289

I'm rather disappointed in myself that I didn't.

>>10714184
Bottom line was that they were about to take a trip through time. The AI commander is suppose to be their contact throughout this whole ordeal, intermittently fading in and out of contact. To themselves, I doubt any of the players would question the help at any point, so they would miss out on the important question of time. The important thing would be that the door they came through would be the furthest extent of the excavation. The next room would have been closer to their own time period, but full of STALKER type anomalies that only existed when certain conditions were met, such as an electrical field filling the room to the next hallway, that could only be de-activated by opening and closing doors down the hallway, consequently making it more and more dangerous to stick around. The door that was supposedly in the previous hallway, leading back out to the outside world, moves up to take the place of a jammed, invincible door in this hallway.

In the end, the door that was supposedly connected to the area they originally wanted to get into, was the same type of door they came in through. After one last freaky encounter, they would step out into the Post-Apoc world of the future, with the HQ AI greeting them once more, and asking for their assistance to repair it.

Anybody have any sort of environmental effects they like to spring on players? Anything at all?

I really like playing with the various senses. Once, as a group in my Spirit of the Century game was venturing into hell, just before the players entered the room to restart play I lit a book of matches and snuffed them out. The smell of the sulfur started to hit them just as I was describing the sensation of entering hell.

Bump for more

>>10713781
Because it was made on SA.

>number stations having a much better reception here than on /x/.

>>10715461
This is /tg/. If we can link it to our gaming, we do /x/ better than /x/ does, /co/ better than /co/, /v/ better than /v/, and /d/ better than /d/.

>>10713564
Wow, you actually think I was trying to pass it off as the truth?

About the only thing true that I said is that I worked with SSTV broadcasting and it's creepy as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHxLczrW-B8&feature=related

>>10715461
That's no surprise.
/x/ is shit lately.

>>10716055

I don't think you're getting the joke, chief.

>>10705316
I used to think that was frightening until I realized that the exact same thing would happen if someone nuked the usa.

The only people who sees ghosts are the people who want to see ghosts.

The most effective fear is to be subtle and implant the expectation . To let their imaginations run wild. The uncertainty builds on them util it reaches their breaking point.

Play on that a little with unfamiliar, high contrast sound, a few moving shadows and then...

The crescendo. A stray Dog can look like a Black Dog in the night if the person

>>10716102
I... Eh... uh...

Damn.

Dont you 404 on me!

broadcast a message, but every 2 words are reversed: example:

a broadcast but message, 2 every are words example reversed:

is this archived?

>>10709098
Thanks for that anon. Amazing read

>>10715948
Ever goatse anybody?

>>10716519
No, but I got a pic of a Grizzly Bear taking a dump in the Yukon River.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sELEQadGNYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeS-9_hgAgYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qrcwLOQkg

Bumping with EVP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-Ivvu8UGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrnUZBmbNPc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2xApql8zRs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH940M3nKAw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGl9gaFGA0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I78YZ--cKE&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBP9xHOeTq8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBP9xHOeTq8&feature=related

Talking about numbers stations, eh?

>>10717861
Colour me gullible, but is this shit actually real ?

>>10715948
So.. you're admitting you're full of shit?

A small girl in the middle of a chaos room telling the adventurers "please don't take my items", got this from another anon and tried it out. they appeared to be freaked out.

>>10717861
Wait what?

>>10718049
You're going to love horror in rpgs, that I can see already.

God damnit, /tg/, you fucked with my mind again/

>>10718049
Could be.
Gotta find out yourself

>>10718049
Man, you even have to ask that question?

"lol we discovered this freaky stuff but all of a sudden every mention of it ever was deleted from the internet and we don't know how to actually reliably get at the relevant material so you will never be able to to verify this"

>>10718049
Of course not. It's a piece of creepypasta that shows up on /x/ from time to time. Kick yourself for being so gullible.

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

>>10718323
:<

>>10718254
I'm actually gonna be DMing some.

>>10718311
How do squats fit into th-

>>10718357
IRL hive

>>10718323
See, this is one if the reasons that /x/, even when not being /b/'s vacation home, isn't all that great.
If I were to actually want a decent discussion about occultism, it'd get buried under rituals that are so specific you probably couldn't do them if you waited three years, blurry photographs, or "I made a magic circle once, now if you don't post "herplderpl" to your twelve closest friends I will eat your eyes at exactly 3:26 AM tonight".

hypothetical situation.

Imagine the queen died on that exact date and time.

what then?

hypothetical situation.

Imagine the game reloads content with the patches or some other way..

what then?

>>10718546
I would have lost the pool, because I bet she died in 2016.

Also, no one gives a shit about the queen outside of constitutional monarchies.

>>10718546
Then, obviously, the world would, as hinted at the end, end on the 6th of July 2027, at exactly 1:27 AM.

This thing is just trying too hard. Hidden messages would be interesting, possible easter egg by developers. Having it be a prophecy collection would be a mindfuck. Having it be that, AND a doomsday hint just makes it seem like someone pulling everything within arms reach into it.

>>10718648
Chaos theory also tells that this well. Even if someone knew the future and said the world would end, even the knowledge or the act of observation would alter that.

That might be wrong. Feel free to get /sci/ to flame me.

>>10718311
>you will never be able to to verify this
It's verifiable. Just open the Fallout 3 data files and find the radio stations. Of course it's not there.

what the fuck this thread was up 14 hours ago at 3 AM last night

Its still here?

>>10718705
How do we find the radio stations?

>>10718711
Threads on /tg/ can last days.

Also, I don't know why I read creepy threads. I have an overactive imagination and seem to be paranoid, and I live alone in my own house.

I'll never be able to sleep tonight.

>>10717861

H-, haha this is actual- OH GOD

OH GOD THE NOISE

ARGH OH JESUS WHY DID YOU CAUSE TEH NOISE

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>10718697
Now prepare to get mindfucked.
Some predictions come true because people subconsciously want them to. That's why, if someone has made a prediction about the world ending there are always people who want it to end as predicted. The significance of this is that the doomsday prediction itself increases the probability of the doomsday actually happening, provided it's within human control to cause or prevent it at the time.

>>10718902
That also works the same with the economy I've heard.

>>10718902
Self fulfilling prophecy.
We get it

>>10718741
Same here. Some mysterious force makes me read those threads.
>>10718877
MAKE IT STOP ARGHHH

>>10718943
That's just because people are retarded, and if someone says "X is gonna go bust" and people believe it, they will sell all of their stuff in X, and X will go bust, unless they can somehow prove that that person is lying or whatever.

>>10718741
This might help you.

Speaking of Fallout 3 remember that one vault that experimented with white noise? Did anyone else find it far more creepier when you realized that the place was actually completely empty then when you thought it was full of enemies?

The party starts reading a diary of a crazed madman who sacrificed his daughter/son to an eldritch deity forty years ago. Eventually they find a picture of the son/daughter. He/she looks exactly like what one of the party members looked like at an earlier age.

Any other creepy wiki links?

It's gonna be kinda like 2012.

sure, the 2012 prophecy is a crock of shit, but a scary amount of people actually believe in it.

Honestly I can't wait. You know at the very least there's going to be a few riots.

>>10719061
Lots. Just check out the...

WHAT?!

NOOOO-

>>10719061
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA
I liked that one because of the part about
>Canada
>In the post-Cold War era, a greater emphasis has been placed on monitoring satellite, radio and cellphone traffic originating from Central and South America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbly_Creek
Another good one

>>10718981
I don't know if that's going to help me *sleep* but sure as hell won't let me have nightmares.

SSTV radio broadcasts are indeed creepy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZ7vegL59s
You are literally listening to color

Here's one from the international space station:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9GYoHbKEg

Battle Star Galactica voice style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxQEQHiZOtw

>>10719061
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_transplant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_transplant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov

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

>>10719319
>The first head transplant was actually done by Professor A. G. Konevskiy[2] of the Operative Surgery and Topographical Anatomy Department of Volgograd State Medical University. The head transplant wasn't planned. Konevskiy had planned an experimental heart transplant but the puppy was involved in an automobile accident. Not wanting to "waste the sterilized operating table", the surgeon proceeded with the head transplant.

Holy niggertits

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

GOD DAMN IT /tg/.
WHY DO YOU ALWAYS MAKE SCARY THREADS WHEN NOBODY'S HOME

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>>10719188
>listen
>color
MY GOD!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermitage_%28Ontario%29
OH FUCK
I LIVE IN HAMILTON

>>10719420
What do you mean, "nobody"? I've been standing outside your door for hours. Won't you let me in?

>>10719467
That's not funny.
Somebody or something just banged on my door a couple minutes ago.
It's nighttime in Europe.
Oh god, it happened again...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_belmez
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_information_awareness
OH FUCK
GOVERNMENTS IN THIS THREAD

I went to that nazi Riese bunkers/vaults once, creepy as hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Riese
Guide told us that about 80% of these objects is undiscovered. Some guys calculated the volume of all known objects, and compared it to what Speer stated in a report to Hitler, and it's possible that there's still a fuckload of these things underground.

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

>>10719516
Hi fellow European.
It's 01:31 over here.

Just download a vocoder and use that to speak to your players.

>>10719441

Me too! Hamilton has some other creepy stories, too. Ever hear of the "Black Shack"? I think it was an abandoned house where some teenagers are alleged to have made blood sacrifices, maybe even a human sacrifice, back in the '70s....

>>10719533
There is absolutely no reason that we need this level of surveillance to deal with terrorists. This is either a gross overreaction by the government or it's was intentionally going to be used for sinister purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grinning_Man

D&D kills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_tunnel_incident

>>10719627
Eh, it's pretty sweet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Vault

Know what is creepier? I just read about this number stations yesterday. Never knew about them until then... now this post.

Anyone else ever experience that? Find out something new, suddenly everyone is talking it / using it?

>>10715461
LOL PUNS

>>10719516
>>10719576
At least you guys aren't in England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapham_Wood_Mystery

>>10719803
Yes, it´s one of the strangest things I experience.

>>10719837
>Wood_Mystery
Insert morning wood joke here.

Anyone who truly believes any of this shit has a weak and distracted mind that fails to decipher imagination from reality. All this is in your head. All of it is a derivation from your sub-conscious and emotional functions backfiring and fucking with your conscious perception. There is nothing physical or factually eerie about these things, it is simply your mind playing tricks on you.

tl;dr - This shit is for fun and if you believe you have no control over your imagination.

>>10719967
I know, but it's still scary.

>>10719989

And thats the fun of it.

>>10719803

Similar things happened to me many times, although mostly with words instead of concepts. Still it's creepy.

Back on topic, I was living in Bosnia and Herzegovina for few years and had really old radio in an apartment there.

I was reading about TEMPEST studies and came upon a computer program for GNU/Linux operating system which used cathode-ray tube monitors to transmit radio signals. I planned to use my ancient radio to receive them. The radio was capable of receiving much larger spectrum of amplitude modulated waves than modern radios. What surprised me was that I was able to catch several stations which were transmitting buzzing sounds and beeps all the time. Too bad I didn't save frequency lists. In the end, I managed to eavesdrop on my monitor using radio.

Here are few related links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEMPEST
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
It's disturbing to see that LCD screens can be easily eavesdropped too.

>>10720021
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

I shat myself when I read that no matter what uberh4x skills you have, people can still read your monitor by somehow scanning the cable that goes into it. From a distance.

>>10720056

Oh, you don't need to actually have contact with or near the cable. I managed to receive signals as far as 30 meters away with old thermionic valve radio. Now imagine what intelligence agency can do. Pleasant dreams! :)

>>10708932

Dead Hand is actually very, very relieving. If you think about the name, dead hand, you start to get the picture of a dead guy pressing a button to launch all the nukes. That was it's actual purpose - to ensure that, no matter what, Russia would be able to retaliate in case of a nuclear strike. This meant that no matter what Russia would never jump the gun, because they knew that they would always get their shot off, regardless of if their entire staff died. On that note, you are making the trigger for the system sound way too simple - the system had to be armed, it had to detect seismic activity, and the entire soviet government had to be dead for it to go off.

thanks /tg/

>>10719660
>The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.

Welp, I was supposed to go to bed now but then I read about numbers stations from this thread. Thanks, assholes.

I love you guys.

>was going to sleep soon
>creepy thread
>reads anyway

I hate myself.
and you too, /tg/.

>>10719967
I'm not even certain what it is you're trying to say here. Is it that there's nothing creepy about these stories, or that the sensation of creepiness itself is a chemical counterfeit created by the brain? 'Cause it ain't a great argument, either way.

>>10720933
What he's trying to say is motly the latter + extra.

Along the lines of "Supernatural shit doesn't exist. It's all shit your brain pulls under stress that makes you see/hear/feel things"

Which I agree with. doesn't make these stories any less awesome though.

>>10721081
Trouble is that pretty much anything we don't already know about falls under the heading of "supernatural". Not to say that I believe in this stuff. It's more the shit I don't know about that worries me.

/tg/! It's 2:16 in the morning, it is pitch black outside and I'm alone in this apartment with no other sound than that which I and my laptop make.

WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?! I HAVE TO SLEEP!

So have you guys heard of the Black Dog signal?

Using a short wave radio on the Isle of Mann you can pick up a signal coming from he mainland. It's just a simple morse code message that loops "Stand by for further instructions."

Occasionally you can hear a dog's howl in the background noise which some believe to be an omen in which you'll have an encounter with a Black Dog.

thread been here since 1
how?

July 6th, 1989, in Los Angeles, CA... two nights in a row prior we'd had weird noises (as in: kind of like a metal sheet being shaken in a strong wind) in and around the neighborhood (area adjoining Santa Monica and Venice, near the Boardwalk). It was the speakers for a place called The Brig, and someone had left the radio on. Normally, during the day, you could hear whatever the last guy was listening to, pumped out into the street.

On July 7th, 1989, it changed from music to a low hum, then a kind of pulsing shriek - not a mechanical or electrical kind, mind you - the kind people make when something bad is happening.

It kept up for five minutes, then stopped. Started up again the next day - louder, longer and more clearly. Needless to say, nobody who lived near the place could sleep very well, cops got called and it got interesting when they cops got the owner to disconnect the speakers entirely: weren't hooked to the interior of the building. They were hooked to a parked car. No battery in the car, just a microphone and a big phonebook.

I love LA.

>>10721460
Oh yes i've heard of the dog (the black shuck is a pretty common omen, there's various dog omens spread around the world like barghest etc). Not the signal though. Is it real ?

>>10721675
I don't know, I'm in San Fransisco. I just made it up. I just was doing some research on Manx history rcently and a few ghost stories came up.

Yeah, I wasn't planning on sleeping anyway...

A dog that has been cut in half but it's still alive. It is on a shelf display. I saw something like that a long time ago on a television show I don't remember. Man, being 10 years old that scared the shit out of me. I then felt sorry for the dog after the guy stomped on it like 50 times and it was still alive.

/x/ here. I fucking hate how your /x/-related threads are better than ours.

>>10721794
Problem with that is this (at least this is how i think it is): when you're on a board designed for something, you get a lot of fucking morons along with the genuine interesting guys (basically you get a festival with a few interested gentlemen and a whole bunch of retards only there for the free beer).

eventually the stupid overruns the good and that's why most boards are shit at what they do, while you can get better threads about the subject in others.

Kinda like how /v/'s shit at gaming and /x/ is shit at paranormal yet /tg/ is better than both for either. And yet /tg/'s own content is nothing but edition wars and SPESS MEHREENS

God dammit, its 2am over here! How am I meant to get to sleep?

>>10721903
Not nothing but. But yeah, a board dedicated to a subject gets the whole range of quality from the worst to the best in that subject. We also have AWESOME /tg/ based threads. And most /x/ and some /v/ content is /tg/ related, why wouldn't we take the best of it.

>>10720154
Everybody see this? This here is bullshit. there is nothing relaxing about the Russians being prepared to nuke the world after death no matter what, nothing about it prevents them from jumping the gun.

They can just as easily fire first, in fact triggering deadhand would make firing first easier. The only thing dead hand did was hold America back from striking first, as they'd still be hit by the return no matter what.

>>10719803
That's called a "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon."
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon

>>10721390
pussy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
If you don't know about this, you haven't been paying attention. Not so much creepy as confusing. Where did this fucker come from?

>>10722324
It's somebody's Renaissance era RPG notes.

>>10722562
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl fhtan.

>>10722324
http://xkcd.com/593/

>>10722046
It's a provision for a last-ditch attempt. I don't know about you, but I'd be a lot more comfortable if I knew that no matter what happened, if I died, if my entire country was nuked, my goal would still be accomplished. That's what that system is. It takes the pressure off, because you know you have it to fall back on if everything else goes to shit.

Why worry about the Americans if you have DMS? As long as it's in working order, you need not fear nuclear war, because no one would be stupid enough to attack you when they're facing MAD.

>>10722740
Here's the thing: If everyone in the world with a sizable nuclear arsenal has a Dead Hand, then nuclear war is practically impossible, as long as those in power still value self-preservation.

Obviously, throwing in the insane or suicidal element ruins the whole thing.

>>10722740
From a lot of views it can be seen as catastrophic and retarded like liberals, pacifists, environmentalists etc cause why nuke MORE? let the country getting nuked get it's fill and then stop if it CAN'T be avoided. minimize damage.

However I totally agree with Dead Hand and I would definitely feel comfortable with it if I was russia. I'd know full well if the US bombed me and my family while i slept, they'd receive the same kindness beyond the grave or not.

Plus it's the most badass deterrent ever, right down to the name. Nobody risks launching anything when you're effectively staring down the barrel of a nuclear holocaust. you'd literally have to be insane to the point of reveling in the rape of the planet and the human race.

>>10722801
Insane and suicidal? I thought people like that were myths, stories told to scare children.

>>10722872
Never, ever visit the Middle East.

>>10722850
It's a great deterrent, it just doesn't make me feel "safe" or "reassured", it's scary as fuck and anyone who believes otherwise is a fool.

Even if they were Russian, I mean, you've got to remember that they felt they had a need for such a device in the first place.

Ten bucks says Kim Jong Il actually nukes everyone within 2 years for not being taken seriously with this whole "NORTH KOREA IS BEST KOREA" shit. "dis is rast straw! I bomb u to herr!"

>>10722903
Without Dead Hand, it would be worse. If the Russians had nothing to fall back on, they'd be a lot more anxious, because if there was a launch, they would have to make sure they got their own birds off before everyone in the control room was incinerated. This lessens response time and encourages you to react to a false positive without adequate information. Dead Hand lets you take your time.

>>10722917
If he launches a single nuke then every nuclear country in the world will retaliate, and NK wouldn't have the stockpile to make everyone else a mess.

There isn't a single country in the world that would support another country that started a nuclear war. Far too dangerous for everyone.

The only reason mad = apocalypse is becuase the major nuclear countries are large, and that means that there'd be a lot of damage and nuclear winter, plus whichever country started it would have to hit it's targets allies or face even more retaliation.

>>10722903
Of course they had a need. The cold war was scary as shit for both sides. They firmly believed (and generally ACTUALLY WERE) bordering on nuclear war.

In that situation, I totally understand having a great big spray can permanently aimed at the fuckoff huge spider in your bedroom. the moment it moves a muscle, that bitch is going down pronto.

and I guess i'm a fool then. It's mostly a tool for revenge anyway, and I agree with the notion. I'd be dead so i wouldn't care but I'm doing this while i'm alive and while i care. So there you go.

>>10722956
you don't seem to understand how long an icbm missile takes from launch to strike. we're talking about a several hour flight time.

>>10723011
30 min.

>>10722998
No, no, you don't seem to understrand what I was saying, nothing about necessity or usefulness, I was just talking reassurance, of which there is none, as no matter how you look at it, it was a preparation in the expectation of being hit by a small sun in multiple places at once.

The purpose of the number stations are obvious:

They keep it asleep.

>>10723059
Those aren't icbms, those are submarine launches, which wouldn't be enough to saturate russia.

>>10723011
And on the opposite you have to scramble military responses, assemble the cabinet and prepare for actually retaliating etc etc. Shit takes AGES. remember the people who directly control this shit might not even be anywhere near the control room.

>>10723078
Numbers Stations = Cthulhu's way of counting sheep.

FTAGHN!

>>10723079
Do you have a source for the several hour flight time?

>>10723079
Not really, there are people always sitting at the launch controls. they're constantly manned.

In the us at least all it takes is an executive order to launch them.

>>10723011
Even if it took several days, I'd still rather have Dead Hand. A lot can go wrong when you're facing absolute annihilation.

Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness are real.

>>10723061
Oh yes, sorry i got it now. Basically they had no reassurance of genuine SURVIVAL, just a reassurance that if they get fucked, USA is gonna get the Fallout treatment back.

Those crazy ruskies.

>>10723143

Man, what a job that would be.

>Christ, this is boring. I wish something would happen.

>SHUT UP, TED. NO YOU FUCKING DON'T.

>>10723078
Best answer ever.

Play a modern spy game with the purpose of knocking a number of enemy numbers stations out, since your bosses believe they're used by spies.

Once you take out the first couple, there are rumours of things going awry, the group meet refugees on the road who refuse to talk about their experiences, with a dead, haunted look in their eyes.

The moment the last one is taken out, all hell breaks loose.

>>10723167
This is an awesome idea and you should feel awesome.

>my face

The Rosicrucians erected the Georgia Guidestones to help humanity rebuild civilization after the impending global cataclysm.

>>10723120
The only thing I have is about 35 minutes, it says nothing about actual range or the target though. I may have been thinking about the other half of any strike plan which would include bombers.

So currently the only source I have is the stuff in the history books about the US almost ordering a launch but lacking the ability to hit before Russia could launch in retaliation and canceling.

I wasn't talking about a long period of time though, when I said hours I meant as in 1 or 2 of them, which would be more than long enough to order a retaliation, since any initial lauch would be detected instantly.

"they are used for spy messages"

how the fuck is this creepy in any way? goddamn panzies

What's creepy about public assassinations isn't the fact that powerful people can be murdered anytime, anywhere. It's the fact that so many people can be persuaded to believe impossible versions of well-documented events.

>>10723299
That really depends. If the United States is launching an all-out nuclear attack, you can be damn sure it's not a spur-of-the-moment thing. There's no guarantee that any of the control centers are in contact with the proper officials, or that they haven't already been compromised. In a worst-case scenario like that, nothing is certain. Which is one reason why Dead Hand exists. If everything is completely peachy and all of your techs are up to speed, you can confirm and launch in a few minutes. But even when you're not at war, things are rarely completely peachy.

I guess Dead Hand really isn't likely to be needed except in the most dire of circumstances, but those are what it was built for.

>>10723449
"What is true?" is a question people tend to avoid, at least most of the time. When you start digging, you quickly find things you don't like. Ignorance secures the mind.

>>10723451
That's where the numbers come in, the enemy may have more successful launches, but when you've got 3 missiles for every pre-picked target, you're sure to be hitting at least most of them, no matter how many failures there are.

That was the whole point to the giant nuclear buildup in the first place.

>>10723451
>>10723505
Here.

I agree that it was a logical choice to make, I'm just saying that it's not really reassuring.

>>10723221
>Uranium mining in South Texas

wat

>>10723288
Never mind that the stuff doesn't really mesh with Rosicrucian beliefs.
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4198

Also:
TOYNBEE IDEA
IN Kubrick's 2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER.

>>10704722
i like this idea, but instead make the radio laugh at them and be a bad guy

>>10723505
It added up to more than three per target. Cheyenne Mountain had several gigatons reportedly aimed at it and a few bombardment plans for the pentagon, which the Russians were convinced had hardened structures underneath it, involved 1 warhead arriving every 3 minutes for 90 minutes straight.

>>10723573
IIRC there's also a article (that goes along with the map) about nuclear powered boaring machines which are used by the government to make the massive underground tunnel systems.

>>10723634
>TOYNBEE IDEA
IN Kubrick's 2001
RESURRECT DEAD
ON PLANET JUPITER.

Huh?

>>10723676
30/31 FREAKING WARHEADS ON ONE SPOT?! How huge a crater did they want to make?

>>10723809
Crater?

You underestimate how deep they would have wanted that hole.

>>10723676
Yeah I knew there were more, I just didn't have any total numbers so I chose 3 as a good example.

>>10723850
Unless nukes are designed to penetrate into the ground before detonation, the actual crater they produce isn't exactly spectacular.

It's like letting a firework off in the palm of your hand. It might burn you, but it won't do much damage deep in.

>>10719625
I currently live in TO but am related to a certain family (2nd cousin) from Lucan County.
You might have heard of the Donnellys?

And yes I shit you not.

>>10723897
>It's like letting a firework off in the palm of your hand. It might burn you, but it won't do much damage deep in.

Did you watch Armageddon recently?
Or as Glenn Beck calls it, "The Clint Eastwood movie with the asteroid."

>>10723897
Contact detonations would make progressively deeper holes, and a target you're trying to penetrate that may be reinforced would call for contact detonations.

30 nuclear contact detonations in the same place would leave you with a small (really radioactive) sea, never mind a crater.

>>10723958
>I take Armageddon seriously

Heh.

For the bump of it.

>>10723958
Hey fuck you, Clint Eastwood is talented.