Ecks Dee
2009-11-05, 03:22 PM
Ok, a versus thread. Let me lay out my scenario.
The narrator of 'Shadow Over Innsmouth' never escaped from his room, meaning that the dark secret of the Deep Ones was never uncovered. Slowly, oh so slowly, they consolidated their hold over the sleepy Massachusetts coastline, essentially preserving themselves into the present day. After all, they don't bother us if we don't bother them, so why not just let sleeping sea gods lie? And so, time passes Innsmouth by. Until now.
We now turn to the mid 2000s, where our vs. thread takes place.
Numerous disappearances of visitors, thefts of seemingly worthless museum artefacts, and reports of a strange, unnatural metamorphosis that has come over the locals of Innsmouth, have finally prompted the FBI to act. After going through the initial stage of 'is it terrorists', the brass pulled together three of their finest teams -
From the FBI central office, in Washington D.C., come Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully! Mulder thinks it must be aliens; Scully argues that there is no conclusive evidence for alien fishmen. As usual, the pair just jet out to go and resolve the dispute. But they're not alone! With them ride the Lone Gunmen, the trio of hyper-paranoid conspiracy theorists! Their personal theory is that JFK abducted these people.
From the sleepy Washington town of Forks comes Special Agent Dale Cooper! Following the Wyndham Earle/Blue Book incident, Cooper retired from the bureau, and those around him said that a change had come over him - subtle, but there was a certain desperation and wildness to him, that there had not been before. Nevertheless, upon Innsmouth's entry onto the FBI agenda, Cooper was reinstated to full Special Agent status, and flew over to Massachusets - with one proviso, that he hand-pick his team. And so Sheriff Truman, 'Hawk', the newly-married Andy and Lucy, and invective-hurling pacifist Albert Rosenfeld accompany the agent in his first mission in ten years.
Massachusetts naturally falls under the jurisdiction of the Boston branch of the Bureau, and so the 'Fringe Division' - set up to deal with unusual cases like this - is first on the scene. Enter Special Agent Olivia Dunham, 'Special Agent' Peter Bishop, Dr. Walter Bishop (with as many psychotropic drugs as he can gather at short notice), and Astro Asterix Asteroid Astrid Farnsworth!
All groups arrive in Innsmouth by the same bus (imagine the difficult looks there), and, on reaching Innsmouth, immediately set about investigating. Walter mixes things with LSD, Cooper wanders around in search of a good cup of Joe, and Scully begins cutting up the nearest body. All is comparatively well - until nightfall ...
Phone contact is lost. Vehicles are sabotaged. There's no way out. They can try to escape, try to battle their way out, try to confront the horrors that lie at the base of Innsmouth's strange history - but will they keep their grip on sanity, muahahahaha.
To assume that membership of the same agency would result in collaboration would be hopelessly naive. The so-called 'X-files' department, of the FBI's Capitol branch, were aided and directed by none-other than the rogue agent Wyndham Earle, who, under the codename 'Deep Throat', and a pair of fake eyebrows, prosecuted his mad schemes to gain extra-dimensional power. It's Agent Cooper's duty, therefore, to chase down and bring his unknowing lackeys, Agents Mulder and Scully, to justice. Mulder has his own plans, though; his vow to 'trust no one' has served him well here. The close collaboration between the government and the suspiciously omnipresent company 'Massive Dynamic', together with the cover-ups made by the pair working hand-in-hand, is sure evidence of the Conspiracy, and Mulder's cigarette-smoking nemesis must surely be behind it! He is followed by Scully; ever the moderating and rational influence on the man she was sent to monitor, she wants to find the scientific truth behind these rumours of 'fish men'. Meanwhile, Boston's own paranormal unit, the so-called 'Fringe Division', has discovered evidence of a secret government project, known as 'Blue Book', within the FBI and Air Force, that seeks to break down the barriers between this world and the next. As per William Bell's prophetic warning, this cannot be allowed to happen, and so, Walter Bishop confusedly in tow, Agent Olivia Dunham and 'Agent' Peter Bishop go forth to Innsmouth to track down and incarcerate the eccentric cherry-pie fanatic before he can bring about the end of the world.
basically they all fight each other and don't team up, m'kay?
TL;DR - the protagonists of the X-Files, Twin Peaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_peaks), and Fringe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)) try to bump each other off/arrest each other, all the while trying to escape the Shadow over Innsmouth.
Power-related provisoes
Walter Bishop has worked with William Bell on a vaguely Mythos-related scientific experiment before, enough so that he can say, 'aah, these fish-human hybrids seem vaguely familiar, also fetch me a vanilla ice cream', but not enough so that he has the whole picture. Olivia's latent cortexipham powers aren't well-defined enough to include, though.
Mulder can call up 'X' who can give him information on what the government knows about Rl'yeh, and the Mythos in general. It's not much and 'X' will get really angry at Mulder for no discernible reason. Scully, as hinted at throughout the series, is functionally immortal, but as we know, there are fates far worse than death for seeing the wrong thing in Lovecraft's work. In terms of which season we're talking about, let's say end of series 3.
Tibetan Technique, and various dream-confrontations, are options available to Cooper. He's suppressing BOB nearly totally at the moment - if things begin to go badly, though, expect a lot of 'where's Annie' moments as the possessing spirit from the dreamworld begins flexing its muscles against the other extradimensional monstrosities, which, combined with Coop's legendary pure of heart nature, should serve to protect him from many of the mind-shattering . Dwarves will dance.
The stars are right.
The narrator of 'Shadow Over Innsmouth' never escaped from his room, meaning that the dark secret of the Deep Ones was never uncovered. Slowly, oh so slowly, they consolidated their hold over the sleepy Massachusetts coastline, essentially preserving themselves into the present day. After all, they don't bother us if we don't bother them, so why not just let sleeping sea gods lie? And so, time passes Innsmouth by. Until now.
We now turn to the mid 2000s, where our vs. thread takes place.
Numerous disappearances of visitors, thefts of seemingly worthless museum artefacts, and reports of a strange, unnatural metamorphosis that has come over the locals of Innsmouth, have finally prompted the FBI to act. After going through the initial stage of 'is it terrorists', the brass pulled together three of their finest teams -
From the FBI central office, in Washington D.C., come Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully! Mulder thinks it must be aliens; Scully argues that there is no conclusive evidence for alien fishmen. As usual, the pair just jet out to go and resolve the dispute. But they're not alone! With them ride the Lone Gunmen, the trio of hyper-paranoid conspiracy theorists! Their personal theory is that JFK abducted these people.
From the sleepy Washington town of Forks comes Special Agent Dale Cooper! Following the Wyndham Earle/Blue Book incident, Cooper retired from the bureau, and those around him said that a change had come over him - subtle, but there was a certain desperation and wildness to him, that there had not been before. Nevertheless, upon Innsmouth's entry onto the FBI agenda, Cooper was reinstated to full Special Agent status, and flew over to Massachusets - with one proviso, that he hand-pick his team. And so Sheriff Truman, 'Hawk', the newly-married Andy and Lucy, and invective-hurling pacifist Albert Rosenfeld accompany the agent in his first mission in ten years.
Massachusetts naturally falls under the jurisdiction of the Boston branch of the Bureau, and so the 'Fringe Division' - set up to deal with unusual cases like this - is first on the scene. Enter Special Agent Olivia Dunham, 'Special Agent' Peter Bishop, Dr. Walter Bishop (with as many psychotropic drugs as he can gather at short notice), and Astro Asterix Asteroid Astrid Farnsworth!
All groups arrive in Innsmouth by the same bus (imagine the difficult looks there), and, on reaching Innsmouth, immediately set about investigating. Walter mixes things with LSD, Cooper wanders around in search of a good cup of Joe, and Scully begins cutting up the nearest body. All is comparatively well - until nightfall ...
Phone contact is lost. Vehicles are sabotaged. There's no way out. They can try to escape, try to battle their way out, try to confront the horrors that lie at the base of Innsmouth's strange history - but will they keep their grip on sanity, muahahahaha.
To assume that membership of the same agency would result in collaboration would be hopelessly naive. The so-called 'X-files' department, of the FBI's Capitol branch, were aided and directed by none-other than the rogue agent Wyndham Earle, who, under the codename 'Deep Throat', and a pair of fake eyebrows, prosecuted his mad schemes to gain extra-dimensional power. It's Agent Cooper's duty, therefore, to chase down and bring his unknowing lackeys, Agents Mulder and Scully, to justice. Mulder has his own plans, though; his vow to 'trust no one' has served him well here. The close collaboration between the government and the suspiciously omnipresent company 'Massive Dynamic', together with the cover-ups made by the pair working hand-in-hand, is sure evidence of the Conspiracy, and Mulder's cigarette-smoking nemesis must surely be behind it! He is followed by Scully; ever the moderating and rational influence on the man she was sent to monitor, she wants to find the scientific truth behind these rumours of 'fish men'. Meanwhile, Boston's own paranormal unit, the so-called 'Fringe Division', has discovered evidence of a secret government project, known as 'Blue Book', within the FBI and Air Force, that seeks to break down the barriers between this world and the next. As per William Bell's prophetic warning, this cannot be allowed to happen, and so, Walter Bishop confusedly in tow, Agent Olivia Dunham and 'Agent' Peter Bishop go forth to Innsmouth to track down and incarcerate the eccentric cherry-pie fanatic before he can bring about the end of the world.
basically they all fight each other and don't team up, m'kay?
TL;DR - the protagonists of the X-Files, Twin Peaks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_peaks), and Fringe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_(TV_series)) try to bump each other off/arrest each other, all the while trying to escape the Shadow over Innsmouth.
Power-related provisoes
Walter Bishop has worked with William Bell on a vaguely Mythos-related scientific experiment before, enough so that he can say, 'aah, these fish-human hybrids seem vaguely familiar, also fetch me a vanilla ice cream', but not enough so that he has the whole picture. Olivia's latent cortexipham powers aren't well-defined enough to include, though.
Mulder can call up 'X' who can give him information on what the government knows about Rl'yeh, and the Mythos in general. It's not much and 'X' will get really angry at Mulder for no discernible reason. Scully, as hinted at throughout the series, is functionally immortal, but as we know, there are fates far worse than death for seeing the wrong thing in Lovecraft's work. In terms of which season we're talking about, let's say end of series 3.
Tibetan Technique, and various dream-confrontations, are options available to Cooper. He's suppressing BOB nearly totally at the moment - if things begin to go badly, though, expect a lot of 'where's Annie' moments as the possessing spirit from the dreamworld begins flexing its muscles against the other extradimensional monstrosities, which, combined with Coop's legendary pure of heart nature, should serve to protect him from many of the mind-shattering . Dwarves will dance.
The stars are right.