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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Skade" data-source="post: 630618" data-attributes="member: 3320">I run something we call 2028.  It has a bunch of differnt subtitles, but Neon Apolcalypse is in the front running.  It is a near future alt-earth where governments are going bankrupt after some very costly conflicts and private companies and organized crime are picking up the slack in the privatization of the "administration" sector.  There is a lot of semi-hard science fiction that runs amok, in the areas of bioengineering, Near AI, chemically assisted fusion, nanites, cybernetics and the revelations that magic and monsters have always existed.  This is not like the Shadow from the Modern book.  It's pretty specific.  there are demons (think Fiends from MM), creatures from beyond (think cthullu),  angels, fae, werewolves, vampires, mummies, and magic, but there are no beholders, bullettes, or rust monsters.  It is not a DnD fantasy world.  It is what my adled mind thinks a world whose tech sped up a bit would think if our more traditional magic and monsters were real.  Its still sci-fi because the actions, the reasons, and teh plot are all about the advancement of the human condition, through, or in spite of the technology we are creating every day.   Here is the real gist.    Imagine that every movie we make about our world is real.  John Lee from the Replacement Killers has no clue that tenyears before Jack Burton fought Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China, in the exact same alleys.  Neither of these men knew that there are creatures murdering men and women in New England to sate the appetites or a nameless god.  The Vampire Lestat is drinking coffee 10 feet from Action Jackson.  The world has plenty of room in it for all of these things to happen, and never interfere with one another.</blockquote>

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