Asshole Victim: The local KKK chapter tried to muscle in on Ebernote Blackwood and his worshipers.Artifact of Doom: Throughout the story, Reed is investigating a deep-sea expedition, where Professor Dough ended up stealing a strange mechanism that is needed to awaken Cthylla.Artificial Stupidity: The wandering randomly generated townsfolk do occasionally react to wylebeasts running amok in the streets, but for the most part they'll completely fail to notice them and will continue walking calmly while the monsters chase you around.This is actually lampshaded by the landlord of the Devil's Reef Inn, who says that so many newcomers leave unintelligible scribblings in his rooms that he just burns them.Makes sense, since you're generally investigating crime scenes in a dying town. More than half of the documents and papers you find lying around qualify.So some hard-to-find items will replenish if you simply walk into two houses. Another small one is the ability to walk between areas and the supplies return to where and what quantity they were.Thus, you won't need to search for supplies. When you die, you respawn with all your weapons, healing items, and scrap.A couple of them are relegated to DLC: the Investigator DLC pack adds the 'Dayware' outfit, while the Worshipers of the Necronomicon DLC adds a 'Cultist' outfit. And Your Reward Is Clothes: As you complete main story cases and side cases, certain ones will award you with more outfits for Reed to wear.Averted by the electric fans, which although modern looking, were actually invented in 1882.Anachronism Stew: Oakmont is littered with Blue US Postal Service mailboxes- however, the game takes place in the 1920s, and that design wasn't introduced until 1971.They even go so far as to rename the ammunition, with the Thompson-inspired Submachine Gun being chambered in.The most thinly veiled ones being Reed's pistol and revolver, both being 'Bolt' brand, even though they're obviously of Colt make: the pistol being a fusion of the Model 1903 Pocket Hammer (.38 ACP chamber, 7 round magazine, all-around general design) and the iconic 1911 (magazine release button being on the side of the grip rather than the bottom) and the revolver being a. A.K.A.-47: All the guns featured in the game have generic alternative designations.

The sinking city lore