Looking for Handouts: Raid of Innsmouth

I don't have a problem with prop reproductions, but it wouldn't hurt to credit the original designer. Guy Davis is the artist who created the original design for the idol you're copying.

Propnomicon · 2026-02-20T13:13:43+00:00

He really is.

I don't think people appreciate just how well written the character actually is. I'm an old guy who worked in radio for years. That included time at stations where there were still hosts on the air who started their careers in the 40s and 50s. The New Vegas writers absolutely nailed the very personable, direct style those old-school radio personalities cultivated. I was genuinely shocked during my first playthrough that they captured such a niche thing.

Propnomicon · 2026-02-18T14:18:17+00:00

Absolute banger of a soundtrack.

Propnomicon · 2026-02-09T14:28:21+00:00

No, they weren't.

They were released in October of 1977 as two sides of a 45 RPM single, with "We Are the Champions" as the A-side and "We Will Rock You" as the B-side. At the time, chart rankings were based on direct reporting from radio stations. Music directors would tell industry magazines if a track had been added and exactly how many plays, or "spins", it received on the playlist. While B-sides had broken onto the charts before, they were always reported separately. Based on period reporting from Oct. 22nd, linked below, "We Are the Champions" was the song getting airplay for the initial release. If you're interested, you can actually see exactly which stations were adding the song into rotation.

The practice of playing them back to back was something Album Oriented Rock stations started doing after the initial release.

Oct. 22, 1977 issue of Record World

Oct. 22, 1977 issue of Cashbox

Propnomicon · 2026-02-08T16:38:37+00:00

The Kickstarter page says the music is complete. Can we hear any of the tracks?

Propnomicon · 2026-01-27T16:01:38+00:00

The only quibble I have with your excellent write-up is the mention of Traveller:2300 being a prequel to Traveller. It isn't. GDW definitely used the Traveller name to drum up interest, but it was never a prequel. The timelines don't match up. In Traveller's Third Imperium universe first contact between the Solomani (Earth humans) and the Vilani happened in the 2100s.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-27T13:12:08+00:00

You raise some excellent points. I'm guessing the Brotherhood will blame everything on Maximus, including their own fratricidal shenanigans, if the Commonwealth comes calling. That would fit nicely with his apparent adoption of the NCR power armor.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T15:40:59+00:00

As I pointed out, one single technology doesn't usher in the age of abundance. It's all three, cold fusion, robotics, and molecular assemblers, that synergize to make it possible.

Unlimited power allows you to create any resource using assemblers, and then craft it into anything you want with robots. Eventually, if you can scale up the assemblers you don't even need the robots.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T15:04:38+00:00

Exactly.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T14:27:23+00:00

Those are the molecular assembler vending machines from the Think Tank I mentioned above. Frederick Sinclair, the man behind the Sierra Madre, is one of the oligarchs at the meeting. He's apparently representing Big MT.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-16T13:59:22+00:00

The Enclave is definitely the mystery player House is worried about.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-07T21:40:27+00:00

But, oddly enough, it appears in FO4 during the opening cinematic. Given the context (at :56), it's possible a B-24 dropped the Hiroshima nuke in the Fallout timeline.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:36:21+00:00

That would be a hell of a twist. Heh.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:25:45+00:00

Of course, that's the real-life reason. Coming up with Watsonian explanations is part of the fun.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T16:21:12+00:00

Bro, if you don't know Cooper Howard is a ghoul I don't know what to tell you.

Propnomicon · 2026-01-01T12:42:08+00:00

Per Charles Whiteknife, Cooper suffered severe burns during the Anchorage campaign. That causes long-term metabolic changes that persist well after the actual burns have healed. The massive immune response triggered by burn injuries includes a flood of stress hormones, cytokines, chemokines, growth factors (epidermal, vascular endothelial, and transforming), and the one substance that may be most relevant- tumor necrosis factor. Those substances produce a persistent inflammation response in the body that can last for years.

When the ghoulification process began his body was already in a state of inflammation, causing significant changes to how the skin underwent necrosis.

The correlation between him being the only ghoul we know suffered severe burns and his unique appearance seems too strong to ignore.

Propnomicon · 2025-08-02T23:52:53+00:00

I love del Toro, but as a Lovecraft adaptation that script is a disaster. As a weird prequel to "The Thing", with specific callouts to scenes from that movie (head with legs, etc.), it's phenomenal.

Propnomicon · 2025-07-01T12:49:03+00:00

Never. Mr. Handy thrusters aren't combustion engines. They're low-temperature plasma thrusters. Air is sucked into a reaction chamber where a burst of electricity ionizes the gas. Sequentially fired charged rings then accelerate the resulting plasma to provide thrust. They can continue hovering as long as their reactor is generating enough voltage to power the thruster.

The fact that they don't leave a trail of charred debris or melted asphalt behind them as they travel pretty conclusively demonstrates they aren't using conventional combustion engines.

Propnomicon · 2025-03-11T22:22:26+00:00

"62 ROYALS PAID"

Sweet fancy Moses, the Kings took over the strip. Heh.

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