Resurrection City

[Old Fezziwig]

Yup, the title means Irish Lion (my heritage is mostly Irish and I was bored, and surfing the web for English-Gaelic dictionaries). As for Kajamba Lion, Kajamba Lion's an amalgam of an old screen name (Kazanjian) and Jambalaya — I was using Kazanjian for a bunch of stuff at the time, and my primary e-mail address at college was kajammin[AT]b-------[DOT]edu (the result of posting to a messageboard while my hallmates were listening to Bob Marley). My fantasy baseball team that year became Kajambalaya, making the players Kajambalayans, which eventually turned into Kajamba Lions. I've since adopted it as my screen name. It's not a tremendously exciting story, unfortunately.

Nick

 

[JimAde]

At least it's more creative than my screen name.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Don't feel bad, Jim, "Andrew D. Gable" isn't too creative either. You know, seeing that if you got my birth certificate that's what you'd see...

BTW, if we're done in Avebury I'll get your characters back to London for their repective conclusions to the adventure.

 

[JimAde]

Don't feel bad, Jim, "Andrew D. Gable" isn't too creative either. You know, seeing that if you got my birth certificate that's what you'd see...

BTW, if we're done in Avebury I'll get your characters back to London for their repective conclusions to the adventure.

Sounds good to me!

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Works for me, too.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

As you might have guessed, Edward Alexander Crowley was the real name of Aleister. Actually, the only reason I changed his name to Edward Langan in the story was to avoid any prejudices -- I was afraid if you knew it was Crowley, you'd automatically assume he was up to no good. Maybe he is at present, but you should remember that early on -- in his Golden Dawn days -- he was just a rather ambitious and power-hungry young mage, not the Aleister Crowley we all know and love.

Basically, this story's taking place at a point in time where your actions will determine whether he remains the more or less good Edward Crowley or whether he becomes Aleister. I dropped a hint to his identity in EIECET's diary, and in fact have been all along (the photo I showed during his first appearance was Crowley, I made several references to his being from Leamington, being reared by a religious family, etc.). Did either of you figure it out?

All that Crowley wrote about the magically-created Moonchild, never knowing that in this game, at least, he was one himself all along.

I'm not spoilering this since although Diggory knows it at present, I assume you're going to tell Trevor at some point.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I've started a new thread here,

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=122950

Go there whenever you're completed. If there's any actions you'd like Trevor or Diggory to make before they leave London, post them in the old IC thread and we'll wrap that up.

Jim, for purposes of this story I'm assuming Trevor has some relatives, cousins or something, in Walsingham as well. Who takes care of the manor while Trevor's in London?

 

[JimAde]

I figured he just had a staff, but if you want to have family involved, that's fine. In his history he is kind of lacking in really close relationships. He has acquaintances, contacts and casual friends, but no romantic interest, parents or other really close connections. I like the irony of a "people person" who doesn't really have any people.

I had absolutely no idea on Crowley. I don't know enough about him to pick up on stuff like his birthplace and upbringing. And if I had known, I would have assumed he was a good guy! What little I do know seems to indicate he's gotten a much worse rep than he really deserved.

I do have a couple of things I want Trevor to do, but they need to be done in Walsingham (I want to check on Willie Stemple, etc.).

 

[Old Fezziwig]

Crowley snuck up on me, too, although I wondered if he'd ever show up in the game.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

It's fudging the timeline a bit. Crowley actually didn't show up in the Dawn until 1898, but I figured, hey, why not. I already have Thomas Bond dead, and his suicide was in 1901 IRL. And I also fudged the timeline with the whole Aleister Crowley being Mary Kelly's kid deal, too. Canonically (well, according to Joe Barnett, her boyfriend), Mary at least claimed to be 25. Which puts her being born in 1863 and therefore being only 12 when Crowley was born in 1875. I fudged things and made both Mary and Crowley a bit older.

At least some claim that Crowley went bad in 1899, when he was living at Boleskine House on Loch Ness (owned by Jimmy Page for a while). Here, he tried a magical ritual out of the Book of Abramelin the Mage, ignoring the fact that the ritual stipulated that you be 25. And he was only 24. Some claim his turn was caused by a magical backlash there.

He didn't stay in the Dawn long. I think by 1900 he was gone, mostly because he was angry that Florence Farr wouldn't admit him into the inner grades of the Order and thus he couldn't learn much of any real magic.

Personally, I think it's neat that immediately upon Crowley's initiation, another Dawn member, Allan Bennett, said that "you have been messing with the Goetia (evil spirits)!". Crowley denied it and Bennett replied, "then the Goetia have been messing with you!". Paraphrased.

But overall, I agree with Jim that Crowley got a bad rap. Oh, he was a nutjob, be certain, but generally harmless.