This is folkloric, my friends. Folkloric. First off, here’s Lady Franklin’s Lament:
OK, now here’s the story:
Been obsessed with this story for years – Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt https://t.co/coQl3sHf2U
— Darran Anderson (@Oniropolis) September 13, 2016
Short version: we’ve been looking for this ship for over a century. And now they’ve apparently found it, well away from where we thought it was going to be. This is very, very exciting, not least because of this knock-on-wood possibility:
“This vessel looks like it was buttoned down tight for winter and it sank,” he said. “Everything was shut. Even the windows are still intact. If you could lift this boat out of the water, and pump the water out, it would probably float.”
This is not Moe the Gamer talking, by the way – although there’s enough in all of this to mine for an entire campaign. This is Moe the History minor who came very close to doing a History major in college talking. And he’s as pleased as punch.
You could probably mine more gamer stuff out of the book Dan Simmons wrote about it, FWIW.
Most of that book was really, really good.
But I remain very unfond of explaining the monster. (And could have easily lived without the “priest of the god-bear” bit. I rolled my eyes quite hard at that one.)
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That said, the fact that it’s a blank page to project upon is what makes it so enticing. Stealing someone else’s vision isn’t as good as using your own.
I woke up this morning with a complete campaign frame in my head that is sufficiently good that I’m not going to say what it is until I can find a buyer.
Good luck with it!
If I’ve read the article right, the ship was found in Terror Bay, which I guess was named in honor of the ship, not because it sunk there… only to find out now that it totally did? That’s some lucky/weird cartography!
There’s goram levels and levels of stuff to this. I hacked out the basic campaign frame this morning and it works. It really does.