FF X: Curious Clubs

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I've decided that I'll definitely go with the "clubs" theme for FF X; I ought to be able to come up with a few easily enough, and I've got plenty of fictional examples to point at.

Phase 1, the scanning of books, is well under way - I finished The Suicide Club last night - and I ought to be pretty much done in a week or so since I'm off work. Then I'll write the "what clubs are about, how they work, etc." linking text, with lots of examples of fictional and real clubs, e.g. Whites, The Reform Club, The Diogenes Club, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, etc. then I get on to the fun part, which will be a few imaginary clubs with members, some associated tech or weirdness, an adventure or outline, etc., not based on any particular source. It'll be more like FF IX than earlier releases, but I don't see that as a disadvantage.

So... I need a few weird clubs. So far the ones I've thought of (but won't necessarily be using, at least at any length) are

The Lunar Explorers Club - this will mostly refer back to the space travel part of FF IX; I doubt that it'll be developed at length.

The Society for the Abolition of Electricity - not quite sure where this one will be going, probably some weird science.

The Fonetik Riform Sosiety - what it sounds like. Te challenge, uv curse, wood bi tu rite te entire entree een riformed Eenglish...

The Guild of Psychic Detectives - fairly obviously for a "weird shit" campaign. Founder member Thomas Carnacki, of course.

any suggestions for more?

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[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Well, from the pythonesqe realm: The Society for Putting Things on top of Other Things.

The Brotherhood of Sumerian Mysteries

The Society of the 13th Baktun, a group that is helping the last Baktun of the Mayan calendar to occur as prophesied. Each Baktun lasts 144,000 days or 394.52 years thereabouts, and there are 13 Baktuns in one Great Cycle. We're in the last Baktun right now. :-)

You can generate the Mayan date using the calendar tools here: http://www.pauahtun.org/Calendar/tools.html

Isn't there also a Damocles Society?

And another silly club: the Daughters of Dagon.

Finally, the Redheaded League, the real thing, not the one perpetrated by John Clay. However, their goals are the preservation of all knowledge, as well as seeking out means to rescue documents and scrolls from destruction. And they are, to a man, redheaded.

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Don't know about the Damocles society or Sumerian Mysteries, I'll have to look them up. The Python one can certainly be mentioned.

I like the 13th Baktun one, but wasn't most of the info on the Mayan calendar lost for a few hundred years, and only rediscovered in the 1950s? Makes it a bit anachronistic for my Victorian / Edwardian purposes.

I like the Daughters of Dagon but I'm not really sure what I can do with them in a Victorian/Edwardian setting - votes for fish-women?

And the Redheaded league sounds good. Have to think of a good reason for them all to be redheads (and I don't think being descended from Lazarus Long or avaters of Willow Rosenberg will quite work...)

Many thanks!

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Well the 13th Baktun is a mystery club, so they may have actual Mayan priest descendants as their founders and complete codexes that weren't burned by the Jesuits and Conquistadors. It's payback time baby!

And the Redheaded League may not be made entirely up of natural redheads, if you get my meaning.