05-15-2020, 11:05 AM | #21 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Quote:
In any case, if you look for a place that still exists and that was linked with the Thule Gesellschaft when it existed, in the late 1910s and early 1920s, that's not in Berlin. It's in Munich, the Vier Jahreszeiten Hotel (still a luxury hotel today, BTW). |
|
05-15-2020, 11:14 AM | #22 |
Join Date: Sep 2013
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Speaking of the Berlin Subway - you can meet ... interesting people there. And ponies. (Yes, the link is old, but the pictures give some ideas for encounters)
As for the Brocken - haven't been there (yet), but AFAIK it is a nice area for hiking (or skiing, if we will ever have snow again). The old listening station (which had the nice nickname "Stasi Mosque" back than) was turned into a museum. You can take a steam train right up to it. And today, in Walpurgis night, there is a big party on Brocken.
__________________
""The origin of everything good is due to games." - Friedrich August Wilhelm Froebel, creator of the kindergarten. |
05-15-2020, 12:32 PM | #23 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Fate of Cthulhu is sort of Terminator meets CoC.
About half of the PCs come from a future after a Great Old One rose. They have some intel on 4 events that are key to mitigating or delaying that disaster. For this scenario, the PCs know of events at Miskatonic (just finished that one), the Alexanderplatz station, a Friedrichshain police station, and on Broken Peak. They can take them in any order (the timeline is deliberately vague). For this adventure, what they know is someone on the Dark Web purchased what is claimed to be a copy of the Necronomicon looted by the Nazis from the French National Library and will be picking it up at a specific date and time from a locker at the Alexanderplatz station. |
05-15-2020, 01:01 PM | #24 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
I had been hoping for something more like this for map inspiration
https://untappedcities.com/2017/08/0...lly-look-like/ |
05-15-2020, 02:56 PM | #25 |
Join Date: Sep 2013
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
It is not only a subway station.
I have found this plan of the station, the acces to the subway is probably in the sub level ("Untergeschoss") - "Erdgeschoss" is "ground floor" and "Bahnsteigebene" is "platform level". "Schließfächer" means "baggage locker", see in the legend. This graphic ("Alex: ÖPNV in fünf Etagen") is an overview of the stations levels. A google picture search for "bahnhof alexanderplatz innen -hbf" gives pictures of the interior. Edit: And of course, in our days, people put films of the station online. Man, TL 8 is really amazing.
__________________
""The origin of everything good is due to games." - Friedrich August Wilhelm Froebel, creator of the kindergarten. Last edited by Dr. Beckenstein; 05-15-2020 at 03:23 PM. Reason: Added two links / Typo |
05-15-2020, 04:29 PM | #26 | |
Join Date: Oct 2004
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Quote:
Here are more pics: https://www.bing.com/images/search?v...x=4&ajaxhist=0 https://www.bing.com/images/search?v...x=0&ajaxhist=0 ttps://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=GW2opguy&id=F24B9EE8330A F7E5ACC2EE851F184FCB2D9B12EC&thid=OIP.GW2opguyyRbl aqbGx-uF9AHaFv&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fupload.wikimedia.o rg%2fwikipedia%2fcommons%2fthumb%2fd%2fdc%2fBerlin _Alexanderplatz_U-Bahnh%c3%b6fe.svg%2f991px-Berlin_Alexanderplatz_U-Bahnh%c3%b6fe.svg.png&exph=768&expw=991&q=alexande rplatz+plan+schnitt+bahnhof&simid=6080411869928492 49&selectedIndex=2&ajaxhist=0 http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.d...te/index.shtml |
|
05-16-2020, 05:23 AM | #27 |
Join Date: Apr 2005
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Pics and movie perfect. Minor questions -- some sources say no ticket gets between the street and trains/station. Correct? Would one expect to see police around on an average day?
|
05-16-2020, 05:30 AM | #28 | |
Join Date: Oct 2004
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Quote:
I would estimate the chance to see police just walking around at maybe 25%. Usually I don´t see them, but sometimes I do. |
|
05-17-2020, 06:00 AM | #29 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Udine, Italy
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
Yeah, but look up Polizeiwache am Alexanderplatz. It's a small Police post, 24/7, no more than 50 meters from the nearest entrance to the main station and 20 from one of the secondary entrances of the U-Bahn part of it.
I think it was already there in 2018. Last edited by Michele; 05-17-2020 at 06:04 AM. |
05-18-2020, 10:33 AM | #30 |
Join Date: Oct 2004
|
Re: Details about Berlin spring/summer 2018 for Fate of Cthulhu game?
I believe so too. And the Rote Rathaus (city hall) is ony a few hundred meters away, and they definitely have police there.
|
|
|