Thursday, February 23, 2006

"Paranormal Lab"

All right, "Paranormal Lab" is ready now.
In this picture we observe: Dr. Gertrude Roth and her assistant Otis Schroeder performing some tests on a giant brain and a huge eyestalk of "unknown" origin. Their underground facility is well equipped and has many chambers with all sorts of different contraptions... well worth exploring, don't you think?
It seems there is (literature, internet) enough material for a whole new game, or at least a totally new branch, the "paranormal branch", not pure sci-fi but a srong reference to it:
- Ahnenerbe - (Ahnenerbe Forschungs und Lehrgemeinschaft) organization was founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, and later was incorporated into SS in 1939. The Aryan ancestral heritage research undertaken by Ahnenrbe, including all kinds of expeditions (Iceland, Tibet), excavations (of different burial grounds, etc.), and all kinds of medical experiments (most of which were condemned during the Nurenberg trials)
- Thule society - (founded in 1918 by Rudolf von Sebottendorf, named after Ultima Thule - most distant land, in the North, believed to be the place where the Aryan race came from,) was engaged in many different activities, including Nazi mysticism and political intrigue. Thule society is considered to be a predecessor of DAP (German Workers Party) formed in 1919, which later became NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). It is said that Hitler himself was a member of Thule society. Although to avoid embarrasment of being associated with the occult Hitler later absorbed them into NSDAP with many active Thule society's members like Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg assuming different roles in it.
In relation to Silent Storm I think the mystical part is probably the most interesting (possibly because it is a safe (not condemned) topic due to being highly improbable and unlikely), but I am more interested in the medical aspect of their research, making it a source of certain medications and possibly of some rare tools (unlimited surgical set, for example), statistics modifying equipment (one-time only) or some strange, unexplained extracensoric gadgets or implants.

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