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<blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9539655" data-attributes="member: 6671663">Finished rereading Kim Newman’s four early ‘90s novels for Game’s Workshop’s Dark Future setting, published under his Jack Yeovil pseudonym. They are…exuberant. It’s the end of the 1990s. Oliver North is president. (Presidents since 1960 include Nixon, Agnew, and Heston, among others.) The whole middle of the US is a desert where it hasn’t rained in years to decades. North’s economics advisor turns out to be a serial-killing psychopath who’s engineered a permanent depression. Private police agencies do most law enforcement. Ian Paisley was prime minister of Britain until just recently. Oh, and Nguyen Seth, the leader of the Brothers of Joseph, an increasingly popular weirdo sect, has been alive for thousands of years and is a gateway to the Dark Ones in the outer void, whom he is preparing to unleash. One of the heroes facing him is former Army colonel, now Sanctioned Op, Elvis Presley. After he did his time in the army, he realized just how screwed up his manager Colonel Parker and Parker’s mysterious associate Nguyen Seth were and reenlisted for a twenty-year-hitch. In his absence, the center of gravity in pop music shifted to Britain for a while, then to the Soviet Union, with stars like ‘70s idol Andrei Tarkovsky. It’s basically Warhammer 1999, combining the ludicrous and the horrific seamlessly. I’m thinking about it as a Savage Worlds setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Autumnal, post: 9539655, member: 6671663"] Finished rereading Kim Newman’s four early ‘90s novels for Game’s Workshop’s Dark Future setting, published under his Jack Yeovil pseudonym. They are…exuberant. It’s the end of the 1990s. Oliver North is president. (Presidents since 1960 include Nixon, Agnew, and Heston, among others.) The whole middle of the US is a desert where it hasn’t rained in years to decades. North’s economics advisor turns out to be a serial-killing psychopath who’s engineered a permanent depression. Private police agencies do most law enforcement. Ian Paisley was prime minister of Britain until just recently. Oh, and Nguyen Seth, the leader of the Brothers of Joseph, an increasingly popular weirdo sect, has been alive for thousands of years and is a gateway to the Dark Ones in the outer void, whom he is preparing to unleash. One of the heroes facing him is former Army colonel, now Sanctioned Op, Elvis Presley. After he did his time in the army, he realized just how screwed up his manager Colonel Parker and Parker’s mysterious associate Nguyen Seth were and reenlisted for a twenty-year-hitch. In his absence, the center of gravity in pop music shifted to Britain for a while, then to the Soviet Union, with stars like ‘70s idol Andrei Tarkovsky. It’s basically Warhammer 1999, combining the ludicrous and the horrific seamlessly. I’m thinking about it as a Savage Worlds setting. [/QUOTE]

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