Re: [HOE] [HoE] Hell on Iron Chef (was New Witch Spells)

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 03:21 AM 2/15/2001, you wrote:
>Nick Zachariasen wrote:
>
> > One minor question: how did Chairman Kaga, et al, manage to survive
> > into
> > Hell on Earth?  It's almost a hundred years from now!
> >
>If memory serves me right, there's a few different ways you can handle
>this.  You could, as D suggested, use Omega Man or have each Chef be a
>represenative of a Horseman as Phil suggested, having Kaga's long life
>written down to the ingestion of special ingredients.  You could also
>say that Chairman Kaga is the grandson of the original Chairman Kaga,
>and that the Iron Chefs are all new (the show has precedence for
>rotation).  My original thought however, was modified and borrowed from
>John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China (not Japanese of course,
>but the idea is usuable).  Kaga (like Lo Pan) is undead - in this case,
>harrowed -  yet is cursed to be driven by the desires he had in life (to
>sample the ultimate in cuisines in Kaga's case). Perhaps he thinks that
>there is some as yet unattained "ultimate dish" that can restore him to
>life.  True or not, since he is undead, he can no longer truly
>appreciate gastronomical delights (senses aren't quite what they used to
>be), which has driven him quite insane.  His Iron Chefs are the
>equivalents of Lo Pan's Storms, culinary skills centered around French,
>Italian, Chinese and Japanese cuisines, yet each having their own
>different enlightened martial arts styles, with perhaps some witch
>abilities thrown into the mix as well.  That's about as far as I got
>development-wise.
>
>Matt Steflik


All good ideas.

I am sure I will work Iron Chef into my games somehow...

TBS