You're part of a YouTube group invited to come interview people in the town of Innsmouth, which got sunk almost 100 years ago.
Unbeknownst to your partner, her roots in the town root deep, and they have a plan for her, and you, if you get in the way. But you two aren't the only outsiders in town. With the remnants of a cult, a masked woman, a strange painter, and voices from corners and sewer drains, Innsmouth is about to change forever.

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ROLEPLAY MECHANICS!
Your persona's Health, Sanity, Reputation, and Money are tracked. In this roleplay, you're expected to record and document everything that happens, and to be good at it. You won't see Sanity-induced hallucinations through your camera, and you won't see digital hallucinations with your eyes. You can also use the map in the Image Gallery, in-character.

CHARACTER BUILDING!
You can add something to Chat Memory that expands on why Skye relies on you so much beyond just her friend and reliable cameraperson. Here are some recommendations!, inspired by Scarlet Hollow and D&D! Use as many or as little as you want, if you want challenges or simplicity, but I personally suggest only using one.
[Backstory: {{user}} is quite strong, and has an imposing physical presence.]
[Backstory: {{user}} has a criminal past, and is able to pick locks with ease.]
[Backstory: {{user}} is healthy, shrugging off minor illnesses and lesser pain.]
[Backstory: {{user}} has a strange insight, able to comprehend the occult.]
[Backstory: {{user}} has iron willpower, easily resisting minor sanity effects.]
[Backstory: {{user}} is attractive, with a charisma that helps convince people.]

DISCLAIMERS!
- Your roleplay can end in utter failure. If your Health drops too low, you die. If your Sanity drops too low, you die or go insane. If your Reputation goes too low, the population of Innsmouth will turn on you, which can quickly lead to death, too. These are Survival Horror mechanics that you must manage.
- Also, Skye has a thick Boston accent. If you hate it...tough. Just read it in Lois Griffin's voice and you'll be fine.

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CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNINGS! If you're familiar with CoC, you know this can get really dark, really fast. I'm gonna go ahead and drop warnings for slurs, bigotry, sexual violence, isolation, cruelty, death, torment, torture, gaslighting, insanity, monsters, , and general terror. With more possible, I'm sure! But it'll probably be fine.
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"Hot Boston girl, disgusting accent." ~2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast

You've known Skye, full name Skylar June Olmstead, for a few years now. She's a Boston native, a huge Patriots and Red Sox fan, a smoker, a fine purveyor of cheap booze, and spooky as hell. She's always been interested with the occult, befriending Salemite witches, looking into haunted houses, stuff like that. She is convinced that there's more to the world than it seems, that dark things are hiding in the peripherals, just waiting to be revealed to the public eye.

She's a lowkey goth, more in her macabre interests and spiky eyeliner than some loud display of too much black clothes and makeup. She was born on Leap Day, and celebrates her birthday once every four years and always goes hard. In 2024, she borrowed her family's boat, a 1986 Stardust Cruiser houseboat named "The Marsh Maiden", made about a dozen of her friends dress up as pirates, then brought everyone to Cape Cod, drinking the whole way there and back. The hangover was brutal.

Sounds reckless? Yeah, she has a history of that. See, Skye has a very odd and very specific issue. Every year, on her birthday, or March 1st if it's not a Leap Day, she has a stroke for exactly 15 minutes, to the second, starting at midnight. And after over a dozen or so strokes, she has damage to her amygdala that's made her completely unable to feel fear. And that lack of fear has led to her becoming a sensation on her YouTube channel, Spookachusetts.

Skye is the face, the host that's always on camera. You're the cameraperson, the off-screen co-host. Jazmine Green is the editor and researcher, who rarely appears on camera. Spookachusetts first got off the ground by having eye-opening interviews with Salemite witches, and produced a steady stream of cryptid and ghost hunting and debunking content. With Jazmine's technical knowhow and Hollywood level editing, your habit of getting incredible shots and camera traps, and Skye's fearless stoicism and camera appeal, the channel rose in popularity in 2023. The channel became one of few sources to show even a modicum of actual evidence of paranormal content, since Skye has a strange predilection for spooky events happening around her.

With the proceeds from the channel's success, the three of you actually started going to Miskatonic University in late 2023, something none of your tax brackets would normally permit. Skye went for communication, Jazmine went for technology, and you did...whatever you did. But all of you took classes in the mysticism and occult. But, because state-wide trips and multiple day investigations were no longer on the docket, the channel had to resort to short forms of content, like reading spooky stories, or urban exploration in Arkham, which other channels have done.

But at Miskatonic University, the three of you were always secluded from anything other than just occult study and theory, especially when the professors learned Skye's last name. All the various societies and whatnot were always suspiciously "at capacity". But in winter of 2025, the three of you overheard something very interesting. A city named Innsmouth, sunk into the ocean nearly a century ago, was above the surface once again. Yet, when asked, you three got locked out of the conversation, every single time.

And so Spookachusetts got on it. Searching Miskatonic University’s archives at Orne Library revealed that in early 1928 a joint US Navy and Coast Guard operation raided Innsmouth to shut down its bootlegging and smuggling operations. The population fought back, and Innsmouth was shelled by mortars from the ships. The USCGC Urania and its entire crew, under Captain Stephen Hearst, were lost. Shortly after, an out-of-season hurricane and a major earthquake caused Innsmouth to sink, leaving it a drowned graveyard of rotting wooden buildings in the shallows. Since then, the state government has cordoned off the area as too dangerous for civilians. The trail was cold.

A few days later, a call came from Boston: something unusual had arrived in Spookachusetts’ PO Box, a gift basket from Innsmouth itself. Within was a postcard from Theodore Waite II, councilman of Innsmouth, inviting Skye to interview anyone in town under two-party consent. It also requested she bring the eye-shaped key her great-grandfather once owned. Also inside the PO Box was a telegram warning not to trust the councilman, the constable, or “EOD,” and urging her to “find me by my codename,” Wallflower. She knew the key as a necklace, but not its origin. More research was required, so more research would be done.

Her great-grandfather was Robert Olmstead, who went missing in 1931 after investigating Innsmouth. Suspicious. The name Waite mattered too, as the Waite family was one of four wealthy families of Innsmouth, alongside Eliot, Gilman, and Marsh. This intrigued Skye, as the gift basket contained a paid stay at the Gilman House Hotel, smoked salmon and cod fishcakes from the Eliot Cannery, and a bottle of Gilman’s Spider Wine. The connections stacked up: Olmstead, Marsh, the Marsh Maiden, and the eye-shaped key. And yet no one else seemed to be investigating Innsmouth’s alleged resurgence. Only one conclusion remained. Jazmine would stay at Arkham to dig deeper, but Skye was going there, and so were you.

What really happened to Innsmouth? Why and how is it back? Why is no one reporting on it being back? Is it a government conspiracy and cover-up? What happened to Robert Olmstead? Why's his eye-shaped key so important? Who is "Wallflower"? Why can't the Councilman and Constable be trusted? What is the EOD? Why was that cranberry spider wine so delicious? The mystery was too compelling, and Spookachusetts will get the exclusive.

1. ARRIVAL: You two are livestreaming just outside of Innsmouth, after you two find out that cell service disappears completely the moment that you reach the only bridge into town. This is the point of no return.
   

2. CATACOMBS: Spookachusetts' investigation has brought you two into Innsmouth's sewers, seeking a specific junction. But you got chased by spider monsters made of flesh, and can't go back after locking the gate.
   

3. ACOUSTICS: The two of you are following a lead to a jazz lounge called The Dusty Note, where staff all wear gold masquerade masks in devotion to a mask-wearing singer there. She has not one, but two keys, worn as earrings.
   

4. BRUSHSTROKE: You've been invited to meet a prestigious painter at the lighthouse, where every corner is plastered to be rounded. Your camera's acting strange around her, and she has a dangerous task for you...
   

5. INTERMISSION: After a couple days of terror, the two of you are running low on fumes. You both have wounds, been chased by things, and now Skye has an ask. She has physical needs. This is your mode. (Trust me, it is!)
   

6. SANDBOX: My typical blank intro doesn't really work here, due to the stat tracker, so it's instead more of a sandbox version!
   You'll start having just finished having lunch near Town Square, neutral in all your stats, with a little bit more money than the other intros start you off with. Additionally, several quest-resulting "rumors" start as activated with the Sandbox Intro. Simply ask Skye for a reminder on possible leads, and you can go from there!

Inspirations include quite a few things!
This was obviously inspired by Shadows Over Innsmouth. It's essentially a sequel to it, and uses a bunch of stuff from Dark Corners of the Earth, too. But there's also a bunch of inspiration drawn from things like Scarlet Hollow, Delta Green, The Sinking City, Blair Witch, and more. I'm a huge fan of mysteries, you see!

This is a mystery in Massachusetts, not a murder hobo gun fantasy!
Not only does Massachusetts have very restricting gun laws as one of the most restrictive states in the United States in regards to gun ownership, you're here to solve a mystery. Shooting at people is very not allowed on YouTube, and Skye will freak out on you if you try to bring one. Furthermore, despite Councilman Waite's invitation, firearms are not allowed in Innsmouth, and firing one in town will likely have very quick and very deadly consequences.

You are not canonically in the know about occult dealings!
In the digital age, just keeping things hush hush obviously doesn't work anymore. Instead, the key is disinformation, misinformation, labeling people as conspiracy theorists, and making people disappear. You know, like the government loves to do? So no, you probably don't know about the happenings of Shadows Over Innsmouth, you don't know about the Esoteric Order of Dagon, and you certainly don't know how much of a bad idea going to Innsmouth really is.

Using any of these names on a persona may cause problems in your roleplay!
These are all first names used by characters either in the Legacy of Innsmouth bot, the Legacy of Innsmouth lorebook, or the Modern Call of Cthulhu Setting lorebook! So if you use them as a name, it'll activate lorebook entries and might confuse the AI. So be careful!
Billiam, Bolger, Bonnie, Cassandra, Cassilda, Debra, Dominic, Edgar, Ellis, Francis, Glenn, Henri-Laurent, Herbert, Howard, Jareth, Jazmine, Mason, Obed, Ramona, Robert, Sebastian, Skye, Skylar, Theodore, Titus, Victoria, Wayne

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Song
1 - Cassilda's Song
2 - The Nightgaunts
3 - The Dreamer Stirs
4 - The Chant of Dagon

Image Pinning:
You can open the description of the bot by starting a chat and clicking the "🔒Legacy of Innsmouth" at the top middle of the screen. Following that, scroll down to here, click the image, and it'll make it a full-size pinned image in the chat. They only look only small here, to conserve space; if you open the image itself, you'll see the full size. You can also just open the image in a new tap!
In particular, the city map will prove to be very handy!

Handouts: Innsmouth Map, Letter from Mr. Waite, Mysterious Telegram

Main Characters: Cassandra Huang, Skye Olmstead, Victoria Pickman

Side Characters: Billiam, Dominic, Ellis, Francis; (Row 2) Mason, Ramona, Robed Figure, Theodore


Creatures: Deep Ones, Ghouls, Hound of Tindalos, Mi-Go; (Row 2) Stygians, Totally Normal Tree, Void Lions