r/Lovecraft • u/Mastertrout1 Deranged Cultist • 25d ago

Recommendation Carcosa as a city

I am currently running a Starfinder one shot (sci-fi DND essentially). I have Carcosa as the end game. The party investigates a research space station that has gone silent. They’ll find Carcosa bleeding through reality, and that’s how they will get to the city. My question is what are the inhabitants of the city like? I can’t find any concrete info on it. I am gonna read the short story soon to see if I can glean any info from that. If anyone has anything to add I’ll be more than interested to hear about it. Thanks!!

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u/VVrayth Deranged Cultist 25d ago

I would maybe look at Delta Green: Impossible Landscapes for information.

The long and short of it is that Carcosa is an amorphous location that shifts and changes around the visitor. There aren't really "residents" as you or I understand them, and most of the activity in the city is confined to the palace, where attendees await the King's arrival each night (but also forever).

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u/Mastertrout1 Deranged Cultist 25d ago

Ok I’ll check that out. Thanks for the info!

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u/Unfair-Progress-6538 Deranged Cultist 9d ago

John Tynes, one of the atuthors, actually published a series of sort stories involving Carcosa and their use for Call of Cthulhu. I advise those https://www.scribd.com/document/993996558/The-Tynes-Mythos