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Old 03-20-2015, 11:37 AM   #891
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Default Re: Real-Life Weirdness

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Originally Posted by somecallmetim View Post
Saddam Hussein, as you may know, had a Quran printed in his own blood. He also had his name inscribed in the bricks used for the reconstruction of Nebuchadnezzar's city of Babylon. In real life, it is pretty obviously narcissism and megalomania. In an RPG setting though, it seems like a desperate magical gambit. Maybe trying to use nationalistic magic or cause a reality quake that unearths Haroun al-Rashad's Baghdad (whether it ill be full of History-B irruptors or not, who can say.) It actually seems like the sort of thing a lunatic leader of a rogue state might do as part of an Esoterror plot.
Further inspiration for this idea can be found in this novel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mir...8Ruff_novel%29

Very weird, but very good.
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