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Re: Input on Seattle Tethers
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Another moment of hilarity (in the Kobal sense) would be to have something like the cliche Seattle rains undermine the foundation of the place and have the entire thing slide down a few stories to the road/parking below (it's perched at the top of a small cliff). Time either of those--or another Kobal catastrophe--at some important date for Pike Place or the surrounding area, and you've sweetened the pie further. Quote:
Try this for a map--it's not pretty, but it delineates major neighborhoods (useful if you're preparing a writeup similar to that of Austin in Night Music) and major roads. Clicking on one area will bring you to a blow up of that area. http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~publi...s/fullcity.htm Additionally, this one shows a lot of other neighborhoods you can google for more information: http://www.seattlerentals.com/searent_phase4/map1.gif Lastly, this one looks pretty but it's tiiiiiny: http://www.bigstickinc.com/seattle_map_large.html Quote:
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11-30-2009, 03:11 PM | #12 |
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Boston, MA
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Re: Input on Seattle Tethers
Another take on turning Pike Place into a Tether to Dark Humor: PETA's real-life "dead kitten" protest takes place not just as an analogy and a protest, but as someone actually getting tricked into tossing a dead kitten (with children looking on, film at 11:00). Not every event that spawns a Tether needs to be engineered by demons; Kobal would certainly be amused to see moralistic humans serving his Word so effectively.
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11-30-2009, 04:46 PM | #13 |
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Re: Input on Seattle Tethers
And Liber Castellorum indicates that too much Celestial meddling will kill a protoTether. Better to let the humans do things and take what Tethers you can get, than try to force a Tether and lose it altogether.
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12-31-2009, 08:58 AM | #14 |
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Bremerton, WA
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Re: Input on Seattle Tethers
My game now has a Google Map!
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en...3fef803a81&z=9 In case you can't tell, blue markers are Angelic Tethers, red are Infernal, and purple thumbtacks are adventure seed locations. I have made a few changes to my original vision. The Game and Factions share a forked Tether. Lust's Tether is not the historical brothel (although it is quite close to it) but rather an underground (literally) club called Heaven. I originally (and foolishly) imagined Microsoft's monetary exchange being in the same building as the Tether for Jean. I quickly decided to change this when I sat down with a map and looked at the dozens of readily noticeable Microsoft buildings. I also quickly realized that I could find no evidence of the existence of a monetary exchange (other than from my personal memory from a political economics lecture). This did not stop me from going forth, and I placed it in their district office in Bellevue, which spreads things out a bit. My previously ill defined Tether to Jean now has a location. It is in the break room of one of the Microsoft buildings. The Tether is the location of a local robotics club populated by Microsoft employees who spend their freetime there. There are always a number of interesting projects in the works by the clubs members, the most anticipated robot at the moment is a robotic duck designed to startle people who enjoy the organic ducks at the pond in the middle of the campus. The last project of great interest was a robot named Gary who would (theoretically) run documents down the the photocopier and copy them himself, that project was terminated when a department head declared that robots are not to be used to complete employee's work. It looks like this game will revolve around the Sword, and so I am putting some finishing touches up on St. James Cathedral, and its Seneschal. I will post them later. |
12-31-2009, 04:35 PM | #15 |
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Seattle
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Re: Input on Seattle Tethers
Well, that is an intense Tether density (as we discussed above), but looking at the map itself brings up another point: how does the Lust Tether, virtually ringed by warlike angelic Tethers and a Tether to a Hostile Prince, survive? Do the angels just not know about it? Does it have some weird extra Tether property that lets it survive?
Also, I like that the Tether to Stone is alone, off by itself, and with only demonic Tethers closeby. Probably just how David likes it. Nice thought, though, on the GoogleMap.
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12-31-2009, 08:10 PM | #16 | |
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