Arani Korden
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Someone really needs to run a LoEG game on the boards. I'd do it, but my GMing style is profoundly ill-suited for play-by-post.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Who else could be in it?
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Black Omega
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And now, a little more commentary on the characters actually mentioned or appearing in the books.
The second issue had an old picture of a previous 'league'.
Gulliver we all know from his travels, written up by Johnathan Swift.
Blakeny I had little luck with until I found the Alan Moore Annotations page. The time line takes aturn for the curious to find he's the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeny was apparently considered to cleverest woman in Europe, so presumably she could fill the Mina role.
Dr. Syn, alias Captain Clegg and the Scarecrow, dated around 1915, one hundred years after the French Revolution. Hmm...
Mistress Hill I could not place at all, but seems to be Fanny Hill by John Cleland, a bit of era erotica.
Natty Bumpo I recognized at once, famous pioneer.
Certainly a ecletic group...
Captain Mors is from a series of dime novels from around 1910, authors unknown. Luftkapitan Mors was a rather Nemno like figure, though. If I ever play in a LXG game, he'd probably be my top choice to play.
The second issue had an old picture of a previous 'league'.
Gulliver we all know from his travels, written up by Johnathan Swift.
Blakeny I had little luck with until I found the Alan Moore Annotations page. The time line takes aturn for the curious to find he's the Scarlet Pimpernel. Lady Blakeny was apparently considered to cleverest woman in Europe, so presumably she could fill the Mina role.
Dr. Syn, alias Captain Clegg and the Scarecrow, dated around 1915, one hundred years after the French Revolution. Hmm...
Mistress Hill I could not place at all, but seems to be Fanny Hill by John Cleland, a bit of era erotica.
Natty Bumpo I recognized at once, famous pioneer.
Certainly a ecletic group...
Captain Mors is from a series of dime novels from around 1910, authors unknown. Luftkapitan Mors was a rather Nemno like figure, though. If I ever play in a LXG game, he'd probably be my top choice to play.
Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
I like the idea of John Henry! He is the right time frame as well (born 1840's or 50's). Of course, we know how he died...
Here is the oldest known copy of the legend, posted just because I think it is cool.
Young Indiana Jones is also the right time period.
Here is the oldest known copy of the legend, posted just because I think it is cool.
Young Indiana Jones is also the right time period.
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GruTheWanderer
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Just found this website. Fantastic Victoriana, a list of 465 (at last count) Victorian-era characters and concepts which might appear in League.
http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
http://www.geocities.com/jessnevins/vicintro.html
Molly Hachet - What was her real name?
Typhoid Mary
Not sure if they would fall in that period of time.
Typhoid Mary
Not sure if they would fall in that period of time.
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One from this list: Dr. Moreau
Now from the list that I want to know more about: Vampire Bomb just saying it sparks ideas!
Vampire Bomb. The "vampire bomb" is from Robert Duncan Milne's "A Question of Reciprocity," which first appeared in the San Francisco Examiner on November 15 & 22, 1891. A revolution brings to power a new government in Chile, and they refuse to pay for a huge new battleship that they have ordered. A disgruntled group of Chilean magnates, who have lost money because of the U.S.'s policy towards their country, decides to recoup their losses by holding part of the US for ransom. They buy the battleship and bring it to Chile, where they put in it the amazing new invention of the brilliant Professor Tellus: a propellor-driven drone plane similar to a helicopter, powered from the battleship by long cables and capable of carrying many bombs which it can drop electronically. The drone can be operated by a sloop which accompanies the battleship. The Chileans go to San Francisco and issue their demands; the San Franciscans reject their claims and buckle down for war. The Chilean drone plane begins dropping bombs, destroying City Hall (among other parts of the city). The warship is beyond the range of San Francisco's coastal batteries and the city is seemingly helpless. The city government and wealthier citizens begin bringing gold to the docks from the San Francisco mint. An American Naval cruiser arrives to challenge the Chilean varlets. The helicopter tries with limited success to bomb her, the fog prevents the cruiser from seeing the Chilean ship, and the cruiser is generally out-gunned and out-armored by the Chilean ship. But the cruiser is armed with a new weapon: the vampire bomb, a torpedo guided by a "magnetic warhead." The cruiser launches the torpedo, it homes in on the Chilean ship and destroys it. San Francisco is saved, America is triumphant.
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Enchantress2
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I like the idea of Jack the Ripper, in fact, they make a joke about him in the movie, but I think he might try to kill Mina.
And I didn't recognize reading about Dorian Gray from a book. Which one is he in?
And I didn't recognize reading about Dorian Gray from a book. Which one is he in?
Andrew D. Gable
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Enchantress2 said:I like the idea of Jack the Ripper, in fact, they make a joke about him in the movie, but I think he might try to kill Mina.
And I didn't recognize reading about Dorian Gray from a book. Which one is he in?
Jack - yeah, try would be the operative word. He usually plied his trade on old, drunken prostitutes, not vampires.
Of course, one could argue he already *was* in the movie, since I've heard that "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" may have been inspired by Jack's exploits. And to make the joke a bit more ironic (at least to me), the East London Docks, where they were at the time, was pretty close to Jack's stomping grounds.Dorian was in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", strangely enough.
Dunno if it would help at all, but the author of that story, Oscar Wilde, appears briefly in From Hell, another comic by Moore.I concur with the guy who mentioned it earlier, Aleister Crowley could be neat as a villain.
My suggestions:
- Springheel Jack, apparently some disturbed individual who liked to jump around London and scare people. Later, he became a somewhat comic book type figure in penny dreadfuls.
- Inspector Legrasse, from HPL's "Call of Cthulhu". I think the Louisiana bayou section of the story dates back several years from the rest of the story.
- Dr. Abel Trelawny from another Stoker novel, "The Jewel of Seven Stars". An adventuring Egyptologist.
- The doctor (what was his name?) who invented the Food of the Gods in H.G. Wells' novel of the same name. Alternately, one of the giant children from the novel, maybe as some sort of bruiser-type.
- The Elephant Man. Don't laugh, they could play off Moore's suggestion in From Hell that he was a sort of oracle, an incarnation of the Indian god Ganesha as Dr. Gull suggested. He wouldn't be the adventuring type, maybe a guy who hangs around at the base and offers advice occasionally. BTW, Gull's line to Mr. Merrick in that book, "Make certain you don't do anything sudden in your sleep," was oddly prophetic, now wasn't it?
- I think it's going back too far in history, but Mad King Ludwig would be interesting.
- A villain could be Mary/Helen (which was her name?) from Arthur Machen's "Great God Pan".
- John Silence, the occult detective from Algernon Blackwood's stories.
