[UA] Hi

[John Scott]

At 01:35 21/03/2003 -0800, you wrote:

>Still on a novel suggesting front, the book Zeitgeist by  Bruce Sterling 
>is mostly set in 1999 Istanbul and has a very UA feel to it.

Not Constantinople?

ObUA: I have an idea for a city based adventure (but I won't use Istanbul, 
precisely because of the They Might Be Giants connection) where the city is 
actually two cities overlaid each other.  It is possible to transfer from 
one city to the other without noticing (If you've got a date in 
Constantinople she'll be waiting in Istanbul ...) or deliberately, if you 
know the secret,  and the story would take place over both.  The first 
objective is actually to realise what is going on - to work out that there 
are two cities.

I like the idea of being in hot pursuit of the McGuffin, switching between 
the two cities almost as a way to find shortcuts or to get away from the 
people chasing you.

My only problem is that the people who play UA with me regularly are also 
big Ars Magica fans, and so might pick up the similarities between this and 
ArsM regios too quickly.

John.



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