[UA] Bangor, Maine (was: UA with OTE (was Fudge ?))

[Fabrice Gdak]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Harrison" <mataxes at verizon.net>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:29 AM
Subject: [UA] Bangor, Maine (was: UA with OTE (was Fudge ?))

> As a resident of said city, I have to ask where you pulled that from? I
> think it's cool and all, but we don't exactly ping on the list of "eerie
> locales" (especially when you start looking at global influence). I would
> hazard a guess that our resident Famous Person (tm) Stephen King may have
> something to do with it, but you never know. (Bit of trivial
chest-thumping,
> Steve's house is literally a block and a half from my own.)
>
> If you like, I can set you up with a some interesting info about our
little
> burg. I had to do a bunch of research to set up the background for our
local
> World of Darkness LARP, and came across quite a few interesting bits.
Here's
> one I think you folks would get a kick out of:

Hell yeah ! Please do so...

Now, why Bangor ? I guess that playing in all kind of big city (New York,
Chicago, L.A., New Orleans) for many years left me wanting to explore less
gigantic places and focus on smaller town.
Plus, as I said, two of my main inspiration are David Lynch's Twin Peaks and
Blue Velvet, and I wanted to play in New England for some reason (Steven
King and Lovecraft aren't innocent here). So, I browsed the net to find a
"small" town of about 30 to 40,000 people ; and found Bangor. And since
tere's a quite nice bit of info online about the city, I thought that would
be it.

Now, I did know about the name thing, but not about that hymne. You're
right, it's quite inspiring for horror/surreal gaming. My first bet would be
that Noble either didn't choose it by mistake or was under some kind of
influence.


Again, please, feel free to send me as much info as you want about your
town. I'll do the same anytime you want to play in Grenoble, France. ;-)

Anyways, thanks a bunch,

Fabrice