>>96237375
>Wilbur's brother got destroyed by some spell-casting professors.
An acceptable alternative, though still an uphill solution compared to a Winchester 54 running 30-06. Have handled guns, own no guns due to country laws; the heady, semidivine sensation of having a firearm against things that don't is akin to having a motorcar against things that don't. Perhaps having guns and technology would have been too easy a solution against the Horrors, but then Lovecraft's formulaic
>oh my god the trotters
>those unbearable indescribable TROTTERS
way of tying things up is equally lazy.

>Wilbur himself was unclimatically rekt by a fucking dog
I partly retract my statement: Lovecraft is //sometimes// capable of realism.

>the protagonist was trying to escape a whole fucking town.
>Even with a gun and general badassitude, that would not exactly be the ideal plan.
Accepted. I have powergamer instincts. There is no cure.

>have you considered that maybe the whole point is not how the monster could be fought?
Not really; I just imagine what I might have done if I isekaied into the MC's shoes, and given that this is 1920s-30s, I'd get the guns and axes out. Lovecraft personally had a .22 revolver and several inherited .22 rifles; no larger calibers. He had guns but was a noguns soul.

>Pretty easy for alien art, I can concede, but I don't think them waiting for months in the city would've made pacing or "realistical" sense.

Refer to >>96237939, the last greentext segment. I say Rosetta stone would have bridged pacing and believability nicely. I say handwaving alien languages as being decipherable to <6hrs is BS, because I tried writing a curse in ancient Egyptian and it still took me three days using the internet, a collection of transliterated text, and an egyptological index. This was for an output about 80 words long. Deciphering a whole wall in 6hrs with zero prior knowledge of an unhuman, utterly alien writing is unbelievable to me.