Re: [DL] Plot Help

["Caias Brian Ward" <talespinner@mindspring.com>]

Don't forget the locked box in the front for donations, like many large
museums have.  Feel free to have the museum be well disposed to anyone who
contributes, or ill-disposed to anyone who doesn't.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ghoull@aol.com>
To: <deadlands@gamerz.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [DL] Plot Help


> In a message dated 1/6/00 7:04:31 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> max.trebilcock@virgin.net writes:
>
> << Hi List,
>  I'm also in need of some inspiration, and hope you can help.
>  I'm currently in the first part of my Betting your Soul Adventure, but I
>  need some ideas for a Museum.
>
>  You see the posse will head for a Private Museum guraded by the Agency
>  and I want to make it a bit quirky or even downright strange, any ideas
>  would be brilliant.
>  >>
>
>      I'm not sure if these count as brilliant, but here's a few ideas for
> you...
>
>      The Arkham Gallery: A gallery of paintings by artists who have been
sent
> to insane asylums. As one might guess, most of these paintings are
> exceptionally bizarre and some of them are obscene or horrific in their
> choice of subject matter.
>
>      The Notable's Gallery: A gallery devoted to portraits of individuals
who
> have "forever altered our understanding of art and humanity." They've got
> paintings of Elizabeth Bathory, Count Drakul, Caligula, and other famous
> butchers.
>
>      The Dead Worlds Collection: A collection of artifacts from long-gone
> civilizations you won't find in any history book, such as Atlantis, Mu,
> Ultima Thule, Hyperborea, the Kingdom of Prester John, and so on.
>
>      The Descent of Man: A giant illustrated chart which claims to
represent
> the evolutionary which led to humanity. According to this chart our
distant
> ancestors were not apes after all, but something far stranger. It also has
a
> few entries above homo sapiens, showing what we are going to become in the
> future.
>
>      You'll need a good curator for all this stuff as well. I recommend an
> elderly blind man who wanders around the galleries gazing in the direction
of
> the paintings and commenting on how beautiful they are. If anyone points
out
> that he can't really see them he will start yelling incoherently and storm
> out of the room in a huff.
>
>                 ---Ghoull
>
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