#Shadow over Innsmouth

[asaintellee]

even more doodles

[j-tee]

After like a fucking month and 3 consecutive days fighting with the risograph print shop hours I've finally finished studio final 1/3. More to come soon.

[maniakminis]

Here are three Tiik Champions from Reaper Miniatures. I'll be using them as Beastmen for my Cult of Possessed warband. These models have a really wide stance that I had to trim down and repose so they could fit on 32mm bases. Two of these guys have swords from the original miniatures, the other is using a shield I grabbed from Gnoll miniature, and a bone club that I believe is from a Warhammer River Troll.

Overall I'm very happy with how these guys came out. I'm about half way through building my warband!

[thesoylady]

friend: "So who's your new girfriend?"

me: "Oh, you wouldn't know her, she lives in a different town."

friend: "Where?"

me: "Innsmouth."

[stormbornwitch]

A Poem Adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Shadow Over Innsmouth’:

“In the town where shadows creep, where the deep sea murmurs low,

Stands Innsmouth by the restless waves, where eldritch secrets flow.

With buildings old and crumbling, like a visage pale and gaunt,

Its streets are whispers in the wind, a ghostly, silent haunt.

Beneath the moon's pale, spectral light, the harbour whispers lies,

Of fish-like men with bulging eyes and gills on necks that rise.

Their skin is slimy, cold as night, with movements strange and slow,

In Innsmouth's streets, they roam at dusk, where mortals dare not go.

The stench of brine and rotting fish, a foul and foetid air,

Hangs heavy as a shroud of death, a scent beyond compare.

The houses lean like weary souls, with windows dark and blind,

As if they guard forbidden lore, the secrets of mankind.

In the church with spire bent, like a serpent poised to strike,

The Order of Dagon meets in gloom, in darkness they alight.

Their chants are like the ocean's roar, a hymn to gods unknown,

With rituals as old as time, in shadows overthrown.

A stranger comes to Innsmouth town, with curiosity,

To uncover truths long buried deep, in myth and mystery.

He finds a place of hidden dread, where normalcy is feigned,

Where faces glimpse from curtained panes, their features unexplained.

The Marsh refinery looms ahead, a relic of the past,

Its rusted frame like skeletal remains, a horror unsurpassed.

And in its depths, the secrets lie, of pacts made long ago,

With beings from the ocean's depths, where human forms can't go.

The townsfolk whisper in the dark, with voices hushed and grim,

Of dreams that haunt their sleepless nights, of songs with ghastly hymn.

For in their blood runs ancient curse, a lineage of the sea,

A heritage of monstrous change, a fate they can't decree.

The stranger flees from Innsmouth's grip, with heart that pounds in fear,

He’s seen the horror in their eyes, the truth now crystal clear.

But in his veins, the change begins, as night replaces day,

And in his dreams, he hears the call, the deep ones' eerie sway.

So if you wander by the shore, where Innsmouth's ruins stand,

Beware the shadows in the mist, the creatures of the sand.

For in that town of eldritch gloom, where ancient secrets dwell,

The line between the man and beast is thin as spider’s shell.”

☆Marci☆

[thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery]

Bus stop

[radstarsaur]

Accumulated Knowledge

[rupertbbare]

[artoftcbaldwin]

Couple of pages from the Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptation I drew for Caliber Comics a few years ago.

[devileaterjaek]

[album-aurum]

lovecraftian mostly traditional sketches, Carter, ghouls, shantaks, fish guy

[asaintellee]

trans man ivy lawson that's actually the yith and robert olmstead my loves

no reasoning for this just whatever goes on in my mind

[clankhead]

Abominations

Avalon Hill

Here and back again with the horrifyingly best thing about HeroQuest:

Deep Ones

[maniakminis]

The beginning of my Cult of the Possessed Warband!

I've been playing a lot of Dredge recently so I've been in a very nautical/Shadow Over Innsmouth mood. I dug through my backlog of miniatures and found this fisherman and two fish beasts from Reaper Miniatures that were a perfect start to my Mordheim warband. The fisherman is going to be the Magister and the fish will count as my Possessed. I really like Reaper Miniatures models, with how detailed Games Workshop models are getting, the really exaggerated features on the reaper models are a fun, quick paint job.

More photos under the cut!

[redacted-metallum]

Re: Shadow over Innsmouth

I have to wonder if HPL's ill health had an influence to it. Like obviously a major factor in the story's inception is his racism, but the idea of one's body changing in a way that you find disgusting...

I could see a reimagining of Deep Ones almost as the manifestation of disability or illness that makes it difficult to upkeep "normal" appearances. Taking to the ocean because it's too hard to stand anymore, and letting the water support your body. You can actually move and swim and get stronger this way!

You can suffer as a human with little to no sympathy. Or you could take to the waters and find accessibility and acceptance...

[bajablastflavoredsaxreed]

the sheer and utter agony of realizing that you spent a month making a race for a sci-fi DND campaign and then reread Shadow Over Innsmouth on a whim only to find out that you basically just created the Deep Ones all over again. it’s like the snake devouring its tail of nerdom. i will never be free