[UA] Gaslight UA

[Nick Wedig]

>You know - I totally see what you're saying.  I remove my objection.  It was
>just sort of a knee-jerk defense against the encroashment of, like,
>"Old-School Thaumaturgy" and its ilk into the pristine neon of UA.

My reaction to the idea and Stu's post was exactly the same.

>Sure, you can do alternate settings.  After all, Postmodernism is all about
>appropriation.  I do, though, agree that it's got to be /hard/ to pull off a
>game that's set that far in the past and make it feel postmodern.
>Especially without broadcast mass media.  Which is the easiest way to make a
>game feel smugly hip and pomo.

There do exist some early films of ana ging Queen Victoria.  And a Monty Python sketch parodying them...

Newspapers could work a bit.  Consider the letters claiming to be by Jack the Ripper, but weren't.  Delving into the real author and his reasons for acting could be appropriate...

The obvious sources would include "From Hell" and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (probably more the latter).  "League" includes several folks from Victorian fiction performing the sorts of acts that wouldn't be mentioned in Victorian fiction, or at least would be ahndled differently (e.g., the Invisible Man impregnating girls at a boarding school), which seems to me the sort of thing to aim for.

Surely there's something else appropriate other than comics by Alan Moore, but I can't think of any offhand.

Mr. teapot
extraordinary gentleman

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