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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9412135" data-attributes="member: 7015707">The Past is A Hostile Power- (aka &quot;regression&quot; aka &quot;unpleasantville&quot;). Another idea that is more like a story that I don't have time to write. Basically a high-concept campaign wherein the undead are used to represent the past and regressive values. The vilain is the reified concept of &quot;The Past&quot;, similar to how &quot;Death&quot; was the villain of Final Destination. The story will combine elements such as ghosts playing out their former lives, unaware that they are dead; the related idea of the ghosts of dead soldiers endlessly refighting the battle that killed them; Themed zombies*; the idea of people stealing other people's bodies to extend their life or return from death**; the return or attempted return to the world of Lamashtu (the mesopotamian demon who represented how serious and dangerous pregnancy and childbirth were before we had c-sections, blood transfusions, and doctors who wash their hands); sort of a vibe like the movie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film)" target="_blank">Pleasantville</a> but going in the wrong direction, so that things that were colorful are turning grey; and also a vibe like the story <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla" target="_blank">Ubbo-Sathla</a> except if instead of taking him to Ubbo-Sathla, the cursed seeing stone had instead taken the protagonist to J. Edgar Hoover*(the cliche nazi zombies are joined by confederate, mccarthyist, marxist, victorian, robber baron, big tobacco, yuppie, religious, traditional gender roles, and meathead jock zombies)**(as in The Thing On The Doorstep, Soulkeeper, Child's Play, Star Wars 9, Ghostbusters 2, and Get Out, etc.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 9412135, member: 7015707"] [B]The Past is A Hostile Power[/B]- (aka "regression" aka "unpleasantville"). Another idea that is more like a story that I don't have time to write. Basically a high-concept campaign wherein the undead are used to represent the past and regressive values. The vilain is the reified concept of "The Past", similar to how "Death" was the villain of Final Destination. The story will combine elements such as ghosts playing out their former lives, unaware that they are dead; the related idea of the ghosts of dead soldiers endlessly refighting the battle that killed them; Themed zombies*; the idea of people stealing other people's bodies to extend their life or return from death**; the return or attempted return to the world of Lamashtu (the mesopotamian demon who represented how serious and dangerous pregnancy and childbirth were before we had c-sections, blood transfusions, and doctors who wash their hands); sort of a vibe like the movie [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasantville_(film)']Pleasantville[/URL][/I] but going in the wrong direction, so that things that were colorful are turning grey; and also a vibe like the story [I][URL='http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/224/ubbo-sathla']Ubbo-Sathla[/URL][/I] except if instead of taking him to Ubbo-Sathla, the cursed seeing stone had instead taken the protagonist to J. Edgar Hoover *(the cliche nazi zombies are joined by confederate, mccarthyist, marxist, victorian, robber baron, big tobacco, yuppie, religious, traditional gender roles, and meathead jock zombies) **(as in [I]The Thing On The Doorstep[/I], [I]Soulkeeper[/I], [I]Child's Play[/I], [I]Star Wars 9[/I], [I]Ghostbusters 2[/I], and [I]Get Out[/I], etc.) [/QUOTE]

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