RangerWickett
Legend
It's a cold day in Sharn. The city is built over a jungle, and it's the middle of summer, but when you're two thousand feet up in this uncaring, stone metropolis, the wind bites like a cryohydra. For months the Chronicle has been printing that a harsh winter is coming -- doomsday intellectuals talking about evil frozen planes that will lock the city in ice for the first time in a century -- but that stuff doesn't matter to me unless the chill keeps the scum off the streets.
When the wind blows, there's a stench. It travels up and down thousands of feet, across miles of city buildings, across people of a dozen nations, across monsters and madmen and worse. You can smell the stink from the Forge slums, from the gangs in the lower districts, from the corrupt dragonmarked masters in their spires that try to touch heaven. Most people can ignore it, but I know where that rot comes from, and try as I can, I can't clean it up. The smell, from all the suffering crime has caused in my city, makes me want to wretch.
Of course, that would just add to the stink. And I'd probably hit someone, a thousand feet below me, some poor unsuspecting kid headed to a Sivis office to hear that his father is finally coming back from the military, alive and well. He wants to hear his dad's alright. Instead he just gets a gutful of my breakfast, splattering on his head with enough force to knock him unconscious. Poor kid.
I've been a cop too long, and I've seen too many friends die, but Rollins was one too many. If I'm going to live to see this wretched, biting winter that supposedly will kill us all, I'm going to have to take drastic measures.
This Thursday I'm starting a campaign set in Eberron's city of Sharn. The PCs will all be on the police force, and will be responsible for solving murder cases and stopping crazies from spreading terror through the streets. I've got the campaign pretty well planned out, but I need a soundtrack.
One of my friends has been running a Conan game with great success, in large part because during combat we feel like total bad-asses, thanks to the Conan soundtrack. I want to try the same thing out, and I've only got three days to acquire the necessary mp3s and set things up.
So far I'm planning to take a few tracks from my Cowboy Bebop collection since it often has the tone I'm looking for (though too many of them have lyrics, which I want to avoid). What I need is suggestions for general ambience music, chase music, flavor of the city music, and combat music. I hope to just be able to buy individual tracks online, but for some of the things I have in mind I don't know which specific track is the one I'm looking for. Also, if some of this stuff is free, like from indie bands, that'd be excellent.
Any suggestions? The game's on Thursday.
When the wind blows, there's a stench. It travels up and down thousands of feet, across miles of city buildings, across people of a dozen nations, across monsters and madmen and worse. You can smell the stink from the Forge slums, from the gangs in the lower districts, from the corrupt dragonmarked masters in their spires that try to touch heaven. Most people can ignore it, but I know where that rot comes from, and try as I can, I can't clean it up. The smell, from all the suffering crime has caused in my city, makes me want to wretch.
Of course, that would just add to the stink. And I'd probably hit someone, a thousand feet below me, some poor unsuspecting kid headed to a Sivis office to hear that his father is finally coming back from the military, alive and well. He wants to hear his dad's alright. Instead he just gets a gutful of my breakfast, splattering on his head with enough force to knock him unconscious. Poor kid.
I've been a cop too long, and I've seen too many friends die, but Rollins was one too many. If I'm going to live to see this wretched, biting winter that supposedly will kill us all, I'm going to have to take drastic measures.
This Thursday I'm starting a campaign set in Eberron's city of Sharn. The PCs will all be on the police force, and will be responsible for solving murder cases and stopping crazies from spreading terror through the streets. I've got the campaign pretty well planned out, but I need a soundtrack.
One of my friends has been running a Conan game with great success, in large part because during combat we feel like total bad-asses, thanks to the Conan soundtrack. I want to try the same thing out, and I've only got three days to acquire the necessary mp3s and set things up.
So far I'm planning to take a few tracks from my Cowboy Bebop collection since it often has the tone I'm looking for (though too many of them have lyrics, which I want to avoid). What I need is suggestions for general ambience music, chase music, flavor of the city music, and combat music. I hope to just be able to buy individual tracks online, but for some of the things I have in mind I don't know which specific track is the one I'm looking for. Also, if some of this stuff is free, like from indie bands, that'd be excellent.
Any suggestions? The game's on Thursday.
