"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear,
and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Ladies & Gentlemen,
welcome to our Halloween special: Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain!
Please note that we are not actually adding these events to the game, they are intended only to amuse the reader and inspire modders.
We do hope you will enjoy our story!
The votes are in for the Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain,
and we have a tie between the cultist and the government!
Therefore we have decided to publish both the events. The future is now revealed!
Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain
Chapter 1: The earthquake in New England
“Last night an earthquake shook the land, the most considerable felt in New England for some years. This morning, fishermen found that an island has risen in the middle of the ocean.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
- We must investigate this amazing discovery!
(The island of R'lyeh has risen from the ocean, activating the Cthulhu cultist ideology)
Chapter 2: The island of R'lyeh
“Visitors to the island awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith. On the island, strange caves have been found where the walls and pillars are covered with hieroglyphic carvings. Above these apparent hieroglyphics is a figure. It seems to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings. Curiously, many report that this image now haunts their dreams.”
- I wonder what those hieroglyphics mean?
A partial translation
“A local intellectual has succeeded in translating one of the first groupings of hieroglyphics found on a massive stone door, with the aid of an ancient book:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
- Most interesting!
Chapter 3.Salt of the Earth
“Average people in society and business—New England’s traditional “salt of the earth”—are all turning to this new ideology which has surfaced since the strange island appeared. The intensity of their dreams has become immeasurably stronger and seems to change people. They are fighting and even killing each other, drinking moonshine, wine and whiskey, indulging in opium and leaving their workplaces without returning.“
- We must force the workers back to the factories!
(Militancy increase for all Cthulhu cultists)
- There are too many, best to wait and see if they abandon this mad ideology...
(10% of the population convert to Cthulhu cultists)
Chapter 4. Cthulhu cultists
“Cthulhu cultists are beginning to form armed bands of rebels, spreading this ideological disease all over the country. These Cthulhu cultists cast off any previous ideology, they only seem to have one goal – to return these “Great Old Ones” to the Earth. Whatever do they mean?
We can only see the surface, their revolt against their government and their rebellious behavior, but there are rumors of nameless rites and human sacrifices wherever this group gains a foothold.”
- We must strike down these rebels immediately, before they can spread even further
(New rebel type activated: Cthulhu cultist)
Chapter 5. The Great Old Ones
“The rebels claim to want to overthrow the government, their true leaders are the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world from beyond the stars... Those Old Ones are gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed an ideology which had never died.”
- This ideology is madness and horror.
Chapter 6. Delirium and mass panic
“Panic has broken loose among the population and strange, terrible dreams are being reported by an alarmingly large number of people. Crime, perversion, and insanity are rampant in the streets. The population of the country is leaving en masse by any means they can for the island of R'lyeh. Others remain, but are behaving like mad men, manifested in a strange delirium. It is like they are possessed by ecstasy and horror, it´s like a mass hypnosis. What madness is this?”
- We need to strike down this unacceptable behavior
(Militancy increase for all Cthulhu cultists)
- Accept the inevitable
(20% of the population convert to Cthulhu cultists)
Chapter 7. Cultist victory draws close – time to Vote!
“That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the followers would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy.”
- No, by God! This must not be!
(Continue to fight)
- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
(Cthulhu awakens)
Cthulhu awakens/government overthrown by Cultists
“Lord, have mercy! The stars are right. The government has been overthrown by the rebels. The country is in Chaos. The Great Cthulhu awakens. The liberated Old Ones will teach the population new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth will flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.”
- (Ladies, and Gentlemen, we are afraid this means Game Over.)
Cthulhu slumbers/Cultists defeated
“The accursed island is sunken once more; but the ministers of Cthulhu on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.“
(Should Cultists not manage to overthrow the government, the island sinks back into the ocean and the ideology recedes to barely nothing. Only scheming politicians and a restless population remains, as always…)
Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain – Election Results:
(Votes collected from forum and facebook)
No, by God! This must not be!
Vs.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
No, by God! This must not be!
33. Luciano Geronimo Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
34. TheDoctor987 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
35. TrojanAC Free Trade! Laissez Faire! No Tariffs! No Laws! Freedom! Vote Cthulhu!
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's just Cthulhu
It isn't hard to do
Cthulhu to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the old ones come to life again
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
or brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people ruled by the ancients
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be ruled by one
Disqualified votes : (Considered blank votes)
· Max Reptilius Spoilers: A steam boat ends the chain of terror.
· Jeff Ater I choose "carry a big stick" once and for all!!
· Lasse Johnsen "Send in the Jacobins"
· The Bishop Some measure of secularization is essential.
· Emperorheinrich Paradox-created mod that can be selected or deselected for people who don't want them?
· Joseph Trueblood Full steam ahead!
and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
Ladies & Gentlemen,
welcome to our Halloween special: Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain!
Please note that we are not actually adding these events to the game, they are intended only to amuse the reader and inspire modders.
We do hope you will enjoy our story!
The votes are in for the Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain,
and we have a tie between the cultist and the government!
Therefore we have decided to publish both the events. The future is now revealed!
Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain
Chapter 1: The earthquake in New England
“Last night an earthquake shook the land, the most considerable felt in New England for some years. This morning, fishermen found that an island has risen in the middle of the ocean.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
- We must investigate this amazing discovery!
(The island of R'lyeh has risen from the ocean, activating the Cthulhu cultist ideology)
Chapter 2: The island of R'lyeh
“Visitors to the island awe at the unbelievable size of the greenish stone blocks, at the dizzying height of the great carven monolith. On the island, strange caves have been found where the walls and pillars are covered with hieroglyphic carvings. Above these apparent hieroglyphics is a figure. It seems to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings. Curiously, many report that this image now haunts their dreams.”
- I wonder what those hieroglyphics mean?
A partial translation
“A local intellectual has succeeded in translating one of the first groupings of hieroglyphics found on a massive stone door, with the aid of an ancient book:
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
- Most interesting!
Chapter 3.Salt of the Earth
“Average people in society and business—New England’s traditional “salt of the earth”—are all turning to this new ideology which has surfaced since the strange island appeared. The intensity of their dreams has become immeasurably stronger and seems to change people. They are fighting and even killing each other, drinking moonshine, wine and whiskey, indulging in opium and leaving their workplaces without returning.“
- We must force the workers back to the factories!
(Militancy increase for all Cthulhu cultists)
- There are too many, best to wait and see if they abandon this mad ideology...
(10% of the population convert to Cthulhu cultists)
Chapter 4. Cthulhu cultists
“Cthulhu cultists are beginning to form armed bands of rebels, spreading this ideological disease all over the country. These Cthulhu cultists cast off any previous ideology, they only seem to have one goal – to return these “Great Old Ones” to the Earth. Whatever do they mean?
We can only see the surface, their revolt against their government and their rebellious behavior, but there are rumors of nameless rites and human sacrifices wherever this group gains a foothold.”
- We must strike down these rebels immediately, before they can spread even further
(New rebel type activated: Cthulhu cultist)
Chapter 5. The Great Old Ones
“The rebels claim to want to overthrow the government, their true leaders are the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world from beyond the stars... Those Old Ones are gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed an ideology which had never died.”
- This ideology is madness and horror.
Chapter 6. Delirium and mass panic
“Panic has broken loose among the population and strange, terrible dreams are being reported by an alarmingly large number of people. Crime, perversion, and insanity are rampant in the streets. The population of the country is leaving en masse by any means they can for the island of R'lyeh. Others remain, but are behaving like mad men, manifested in a strange delirium. It is like they are possessed by ecstasy and horror, it´s like a mass hypnosis. What madness is this?”
- We need to strike down this unacceptable behavior
(Militancy increase for all Cthulhu cultists)
- Accept the inevitable
(20% of the population convert to Cthulhu cultists)
Chapter 7. Cultist victory draws close – time to Vote!
“That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the followers would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy.”
- No, by God! This must not be!
(Continue to fight)
- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
(Cthulhu awakens)
Cthulhu awakens/government overthrown by Cultists
“Lord, have mercy! The stars are right. The government has been overthrown by the rebels. The country is in Chaos. The Great Cthulhu awakens. The liberated Old Ones will teach the population new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth will flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.”
- (Ladies, and Gentlemen, we are afraid this means Game Over.)
Cthulhu slumbers/Cultists defeated
“The accursed island is sunken once more; but the ministers of Cthulhu on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.“
(Should Cultists not manage to overthrow the government, the island sinks back into the ocean and the ideology recedes to barely nothing. Only scheming politicians and a restless population remains, as always…)
Victoria II: Call of Cthulhu event chain – Election Results:
(Votes collected from forum and facebook)
No, by God! This must not be!
Vs.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
No, by God! This must not be!
- Sn3ipen Fight them till the last drop of poor pop's blood!
- SirAndrewD No by God! This must not be! These "old ones" are no match for a good repeating rifle and Maxim!
- Mrcowman i rather die than become a tentacle lover. Death to the Cthulhu and his cult.
- Orlov Kruskayev No by God! This must not be!
- Alleykat No, by God! This must not be! - We should fight the old ones or die/go insane trying.
- MiltonS Stand and fight it is!
- Khelder We need to fight them and drown them in the blood of their Old Ones
- Mehmed2 Fight to the last man! Tis our world!
- Cresilia We must fight to the last drop of blood!
- viola No, by God! This must not be!
- Nyrael As fun as second option would be, I still say fight +till the end! No, by God! This must not be!
- FOARP Fight to the end!
- Dukeofmunster No, by god, this must not be!
- AxeBeard REMOVE CTHULHU Remove cthulhu. you are worst old god. you are the old god idiot you are the old god smell. Return to Rlyeh.
- Montezuma II No, by god, this must not be!
- Valvinar Fight till the end! No by God this must not be!
- Velg Fight until last man falls!
- Alxeu No, by God! This must not be! We shall defend our world, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender! Which reference is that? (Answer by Faulty: I'm not sure that fighting on the beaches will help much against a horde of shoggoths consuming all living thing)
- Dodedo You give an inch they take a mile! Stand and Fight!
- Sarius1997 No, by God! This must not be! We will never stop fighting. We didn´t back down when the nukes rained down on us, so we won´t stop fighting here. The monk will stand strong, and so will all his followers. (Everyone who gets it, will get a cookie )
- Tirenedon Fight them! Send them back to the depths of the sea!
- Stuyvesant Seems we can either fight and get murdered by Ol' Pulpy Tentacleface and his crazed followers, or we can submit and get ritually sacrificed to Ol' Pulpy Tentacleface by his crazed followers. Well, if we're all dead anyway, I'd prefer to take a few of those bastards with me. Fight the cultists! Machine guns, flame throwers, poison gas! Whatever it takes!
- Niclas Hansemark No, by God! This must not be!
- Joseph Trueblood No, by God! This must not be!
- Benjamin Jakob We continue to fight!
- Logan Thyne No, by God! This must not be!
- Garrett LeGallais By Jingo this must not be
- Juan Duran No, by God! This must not be!
- William Friedman Fight them! Never stop fighting!
- Alex Bailey 'No, by God! This must not be!' How dare they threaten my laws and morals!
- Melvin 'Utah' Jensen FIGHT!
- Constant Von Balcke No, by God! This Must not be! (Goodness gracious, I add!)
- Jonathan Engle - No, by God! This must not be!(Continue to fight)
- Pedro Ferreira Pimentel No, by God! This must not be!
- Giacomo Bezzi Let some veterans of the guard intervene...
- Dorukdorucu Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. All hail the Cthulhu Cultist Master Race! ((People, seriously? We all know that the event we get if we choose to submit will be over 9000 times better. C'mon, don't ruin it!))
- gban007 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. There can be only one.
- Orctavius Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
- GDragoon Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Why choose the lesser evil?
- Faulty Not only will Cthulhu liberalise our economy, the dreaming god will liberate us of our morality, sanity, and mortal coils! Vote Cthulhu! Pray that you are eaten first! Ia!
- Merovingio Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn In Cthulhu we trust.
- Boel Bermann The stars are right. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
- Orko80 Vote Yog-Sothoth Cthulhu is a pansy! Forgoe the city of R'lyeh. Start the pilgrimage to the South Pole. uncover the buried secrets of the Elder Thing. Shoggoth's for everyone!
- Sleepyhead Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. I say give it a go. Can't be worse than fascism and socialism.
- Damerell Seek another option; we must ally ourselves with another power, a king before whom emperors kneel, one that can protect us from the cultists. Tell me, have you seen the Yellow Sign?
- OsirisDeath Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. CTHULHU FHTAGN!!!
- Moogel Cthulhu fhtagn !
- Ashandresash It's inevitable. Cthulhu awakens!
- Tobias Bodlund With strange aeons even death may die! Rise Cthulhu!
- Axel Marnung What, what are we voting about? I wanna vote! Cthulhu for president - why settle for a lesser evil?
- Luciano Geronimo NO PRESIDENTS! What are you, some kind of jacobin? He is King!
- Arno Van den Hende Ïa! Ïa! Cthulhu fhtagn!
- Henrik Valter Vogelius Hansson Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- Alexander Ivannikov Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- Josh Thomson Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- ErMorapio ASekas Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Iä Iä Shubb-Nigguratt!
- Kit Flemons Cthulhu Fhtagn!
- Spooks Skellington I'a! I'a!
- Dan Lind Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
- Krzysztof Szuba Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- Iñigo Gómez García Cthulhu fhtagn
- Dylan Carey Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
- Tony Huynh Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
- Thomas Günther Estabrook Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
- Enric Boudreaux Cthulhu for president!
- Gaston Marzari Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
33. Luciano Geronimo Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
34. TheDoctor987 Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
35. TrojanAC Free Trade! Laissez Faire! No Tariffs! No Laws! Freedom! Vote Cthulhu!
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's just Cthulhu
It isn't hard to do
Cthulhu to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the old ones come to life again
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
or brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people ruled by the ancients
You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be ruled by one
Disqualified votes : (Considered blank votes)
· Max Reptilius Spoilers: A steam boat ends the chain of terror.
· Jeff Ater I choose "carry a big stick" once and for all!!
· Lasse Johnsen "Send in the Jacobins"
· The Bishop Some measure of secularization is essential.
· Emperorheinrich Paradox-created mod that can be selected or deselected for people who don't want them?
· Joseph Trueblood Full steam ahead!
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