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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stone Dog" data-source="post: 3744564" data-attributes="member: 16705">hose of you who don't know already... I give you the intro!Personally I've been waiting for this game to come out for well over a year and I'm glad to say that I'm finally going to see it given form!  Not as glad as the designers I imagine, but still.The question poses itself though... I have a month and a bit to gather ideas and then the book will be in my hands maddened by Drive Corruption and I'll have to pour through it in a frenzy.What to do until then?  Gather inspirational materials and muse about the beginning!First of all, I need to get together a list of things to start reading.   I already have Perdido Street Station, which while having very different tones has an atmosphere that I really must emulate somehow.  New Crobuzon has that bleak strangeness of an alternate London that I want to tap into.  The same thing applies to Neverwhere.  If I strip out the faerie tale theme of that book, London Below(?) would make a good inspiration for the tangled streets of a black marketplace where anything could be sold among the grime and castoff leavings of the city.  one scene in particular involving stumbling upon a corpse propped up comes to mind.  Cool Air and Pickman's Model from Lovecraft lore might have to crop up in my reading sometime too.Netflix is my friend!  Blade Runner for the rain and filth and the hunting of things that are not men.  From Hell for tainted investigations and the secrets the Aristocracy keep.  Island of Dr Moreau is a must for obvious reasons and by some extension I could do far worse than to consider the original comic of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the novels it derives from.And what to do with it all?   All I know right now is that I want to start in media res with a retrieval assignment gone terribly wrong outside the walls of London in the Wastelands.  An undertaker, a criminal and a doctor at least, maybe more depending on the group I can get for it.   We'll start out in some nearby township.  Not far, but not close enough.  Waiting for evacuation a tense game of cat and mouse between the animates and the living, trying to survive for a mere... say hour of actual play before they get picked up somehow.  Then comes what I'm really looking forward to.  The dramatic reveal and description of London.  Whatever they were going to fetch is slightly dangerous or suspicious to carry around, but their contact wasn't at the meeting point.  Really he was just detained, but the players don't need to know that right away.  A lot of what happens in London will depend on the way the book pans out, but I really want to get something a little more fleshed out before October comes.What about other people?  What are you hoping to draw from and plan for with this game?</blockquote>

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