Welcome, investigators. Hurry up, come in: we’ve got information that it will prove useful in your struggle against the cosmic horrors… but beware, for it could be your undoing too if you don’t use this information wisely and carefully. We’ve heard about an accursed place with special significance for the creatures of the Cthulhu Mythos: a town called Innsmouth, in Massachusetts, a horrendous place where, apparently, the vilest of deeds take place.
Innsmouth was invented (or maybe discovered, who knows?) by H.P. Lovecraft, and first referenced in 1920 in Celephaïs as a village in England. However, the most famous incarnation of this place is the one you can read in The Shadow over Innsmouth, published in Weird Tales in 1936 – this time placed in Massachusetts, USA. Innsmouth is a cursed village, a place in a terrible state of decay, so rotten that looks like about to collapse on itself.
This sea town had a sinister history behind it, with hundreds of people disappearing over the years, rumors of dark cults ongoing, and rampant interbreeding that led to madness and deformities. Its inhabitants, a silent people with strange bulging eyes, hide a terrible secret: after a dark pact made in the past by a greedy sailor, for centuries they have mated with the Deep Ones, monsters of the sea and servants of the Old Ones, in exchange for power and riches.
In his fight against the creeping horrors that threaten to devour our world, the Detective will end up finding and exploring the town of Innsmouth. There, he will meet some new terrible enemies, such as the lurkers (half-breed of humans and Deep Ones), members of the Esoteric Order of Dagon (a dark religious cult that worship Father Dagon, a powerful Old One who dwells in the darkest bottoms of the oceans) – and who knows what other dangers live in this accursed town... Therein Innsmouth, the Detective has to find something that he needs to face the Old Ones for the first time – but Innsmouth does not give up its secrets easily…
Innsmouth will be included as a new level in next major update of Lovecraft’s Untold Stories, to be released this weekend, expanding the world of the game and its narrative, and digging deeper in Lovecraft’s work. Prepare for the next step in your eternal fight against the cosmic horrors, investigators. We hope this information proves useful to you. Leave now, before They detect you here and find out that you learned more about their hideouts and plans.
Good luck, investigators. We hope to see you again.
The Devs