Forgotten Futures Adventures at Dragonmeet
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ffuturesI've left it very late, but I'm hoping to run the following adventures at Dragonmeet at the end of the month:
With A Grain of Salt
The Venusian colonies depend on regular supplies of salt to refuel the atomic blasts that provide them with power, but their only source is the great Brightside salt flats, several hundred miles sunward beyond the deadly Hotland swamps. When all contact is lost with the mobile factory that collects it, and two shipments in a row fail to reach the British colony of Venoble, it’s time for the League of Nations Patrol to investigate.
3-6 Players, 2-3 hours
Warlord of Mars
For decades China has been in a state of near-anarchy, ruled and plundered by rival warlords who grind the peasants into poverty. Now General Fong, one of the most merciless of these rulers, has somehow reached Mars with a group of his most fanatical supporters, seized one of the remaining Martian cities, and proclaimed himself Emperor. How will the gentle Martians react to his oppression? Why would he want Mars anyway? And what can the adventurers do to stop him?
3-6 Players, 2-3 hours
Assuming that all goes well and they can still let me have a table, look out for me there!
Later: Looks like I've got a table. And hopefully a load more plastic astronauts heading my way...
With A Grain of Salt
The Venusian colonies depend on regular supplies of salt to refuel the atomic blasts that provide them with power, but their only source is the great Brightside salt flats, several hundred miles sunward beyond the deadly Hotland swamps. When all contact is lost with the mobile factory that collects it, and two shipments in a row fail to reach the British colony of Venoble, it’s time for the League of Nations Patrol to investigate.
3-6 Players, 2-3 hours
Warlord of Mars
For decades China has been in a state of near-anarchy, ruled and plundered by rival warlords who grind the peasants into poverty. Now General Fong, one of the most merciless of these rulers, has somehow reached Mars with a group of his most fanatical supporters, seized one of the remaining Martian cities, and proclaimed himself Emperor. How will the gentle Martians react to his oppression? Why would he want Mars anyway? And what can the adventurers do to stop him?
3-6 Players, 2-3 hours
Assuming that all goes well and they can still let me have a table, look out for me there!
Later: Looks like I've got a table. And hopefully a load more plastic astronauts heading my way...
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Venus or
Date: 2008-11-10 01:29 am (UTC)Is your adventure set on Mercury, or Venus?
I ask because in all the old pulps I've read from that era, it was always Mercury that was depicted as the one that was locked in 1:1 resonance with the Sun, not Venus. Before Earth-based radar settled it in the 60s, The best guesses by astronomers were that Mercury was sun-locked, and Venus had a rotation period similar to Earth's. Venus was the one depicted with swamps in the old stories.
I haven't read any of the Weinbaum stories, though.
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Re: Venus or
Date: 2008-11-10 07:15 am (UTC)