[UA] For the Finns: UA set in Finland

[Nikodemus Siivola]

Lassi Seppälä <lsseppal at cc.hut.fi> writes:

> I know there are a few Finnish posters/readers on this list, so has
> any of you ever set an UA game in Finland?

I find it very hard generally to set games in the real world in places
I don't know well myself -- I think all my modern day games have been
set in Finland, in either Helsinki or Espoo, with the exception of an
OTE game, but that doesn't really count, Al Amarja not being a real
place.

Once my current game (not UA) is done, I think the next may very well
be something UA-inspired set in Helsinki. I'm thinking norge black
metal fan "yeah I'm a satanist, evil rock!" teenagers getting a doze
of demons, and letting that run its natural course.

Possibly starting with a prelude about an a posession (by the same
deamon) leading to a cleanup by Sleepers somewhere far away. (For some
reason I keep getting images of scared commandoes in a jungle, dunno.)

> Any advice or ideas? I think the TV-series Raid and Kylmäverisesti
> Sinun (Sincerly Yours in Cold Blood) are good exposure. Any others?
> Kaurismäki? :)

Plenty of short stories in Portti (and other a finnish SF/Horror
magazines) have been set in Finland. Your local library is likely to
have these. The short story collection "Keskiyön Mato Ikaalisissa",
while largely Lovecraftian, collects some of the older ones.

Crime novels in abundance.

The movie "Vares".

Walking around Helsinki, esp. Kallio and Punavuori late at night,
dropping by in local pubs and Karaoke bars to sample the atmosphere.

The now defunct tabloid "Hullu, Hullu Maailma" (it had gems like
stories about skeletons harassing a mortuary in Tampere).

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
                   Lispnik: "Buddha is big, has hairy armpits, and laughs."