Re: [HOE] Wasted Europe - UK stuff

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

Hi, Tenning, just wanted to say you need to give folks a URL so they can
visit.

Jeff S

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Dury <MarcusDury@t-online.de>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Thursday, August 08, 2002 4:51 AM
Subject: AW: [HOE] Wasted Europe - UK stuff


>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
>
>
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