Twilight 2000+Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu

[sglancy12]

Oh dear god, Frank.

Thank you, but I prefer to keep my Apocalypse genres separate. Delta Green is about saving civilization from a super-natural apocalypse. TW2K is about rebuilding civilization after a man-made apocalypse.

By comparison, the world post return of the Great Old Ones would make the post Twilight War world look like a ten year old falling off his bike and skinning his knee.

While I would be pleased as punch to throw some cultists into the TW2K world, I just can't see inserting some Call of Cthulhu style cultists into the mix. I mean, I can imagine all kinds of cults post Twilight War. Perversions of Christianity, Scientology, Islam or even some fundamentalist brand of neo-pagan... like the cult from the movie The Wicker Man. Another good believable cult might be one like the murderous fertility cult from Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery." I don't think new religions post Twilight War can get too original since only two or three years have passed since the world took a big leap back into the 19th Century.

But I just can't see using Cthulhu cultists, unless they somehow turn out to be a bunch of losers who have picked up a copy of the Simon Necronomicon and are now sitting around doing bullshit ritual magic while telling each other how cool they are.

Of course, anyone like that would likely have been exterminated by their neighbors or by environmental conditions. If the so-called "Cthulhu Ritual Magician and ambient music afficiando" who put together the Cthulhu-One Con in Madison WI is any example, anyone who takes the Necronomicon seriously has the survival skills of a raw egg.

Do we have any threads on this list about alternative religions in the TW2K world?

And do we have any threads about the appearance of the supernatural in TW2K? I know some people have chimed in about zombies and other weird science ideas, but what about full on supernatural stuff.

A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publsihing