AW: [HOE] Wasted Europe - UK stuff

[MarcusDury@t-online.de (Marcus Dury)]

Hi folks,

as you may remember we're about to launch a new website "The DRC - The
Deadlands Resource Center". Besides "Weird West, Weird Wars and Wasted West"
we'll support a new self made campaign called "Deadlands - The Old World".
This new scenario ain't the "Wasted Europe" but it's like "Weird West" in
europe.

It plays in 1877 on the old continent. Remember Sherlock Holmes ?

Here's a short teaser:
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Scenario

Chapter One introduces the background I’ve cooked up for the European
setting, which to this point means a detailed scenario description for
London and a rather broad overview of the continent as a whole, with a
little bit of history thrown into the bragain. I’ll also shed some light on
how the people of Europe have come to deal with the Reckoning and its
consequences. This will be done – just like in Pinnacle’s Deadlands books –
in the form of a guide, in this case the Illustrated Times Guide to London.

The Illustrated Times – as opposed to the venerable London Times – is
something of a mixture between a penny-dreadful novel and a tabloid
newspaper, and basically constitutes the British answer to the Tombstone
Epitaph.

Illustrated Times publisher and main editor Charles Christopher Robin –
C.C.R. to his friends, That-Bloody-Nuisance to his enemies – is a man of the
same fire and dedication as his American counterpart Lacy O’Malley, a firm
believer in the supernatural and strong opponent of the authorities’ denial
policy.

C.C.R. is, as a whole, something of the laughing-stock of London’s
journalistic community, for despite his paper’s public association with the
sixpenny-rags full of made-up nonesense to amuse the lower classes he doesn’
t tire of claiming that his is the only periodical within the British Empire
which reports the truth and nothing but.

Scotland Yard, Britain’s parallel service to the Agency and the Texas
Rangers, is as a whole rather uncomfortable with C.C.R.’s existence and
would love nothing more than to shut him down, yet they are afraid that such
a move would only lend credence to his thus far considered rather ludicrous
claims of monsters-under-the-sea and Freemason conspiracies.

Therefore the call goes up every evening – the Illustrated Times is
distributed around dusk – all over the capital, whether in the Docklands or
on Trafalgar Square, advertising the latest headline of mystery and
blood-curling revelations, a lonesome caller in the dark noone takes
seriously. Yet like Lacy O’Malley, Charles Christopher Robin is far from
giving up. He has even broadened his selection of publications recently to
please his growing circle of customers – most of whom, however, simply
consider his writings an amusing read on the side –, throwing the first
edition of the Illustrated Times Guide to London on the expectant market.

The Guide is mostly a collection of past articles from the Times, with
explanations for visitors from abroad tossed in as an extra, since C.C.R.
wishes to spread the word across Europe by any means he can think of.

For those ‘in-the-know’, the Guide is an essential piece of work, shedding
some light on post-Reckoning events in Britain’s leading city, and even
long-time inhabitants of London will find rather incredible insights in its
pages if only they are willing to believe.

So grab a copy if you will, friends’n’neighbors, coz there’s things waitin’
in the London night that don’t just go bump – and if they do, they’ll
usually take care to aim for your no-use, unwashed heads ...
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We're still developing this new scenario, but as time goes by it grows and
grows.

The launch time will soon be there. Beta test will start in early september,
if nothing odd happens. The page will live of your participation. Everyone
will have the opportunity to write articles online.

If someone is interested in writing source material for an "Wasted Europe"
Scenario he could publish his stuff from home easily by logging into the
DRC.

So watch out for the by invitation only DRC testdrive phase ...


Tenning the Junker