[UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast

Tue Jun 10 00:11:00 PDT 2008

>Great.  Now I've had an idea for a pulp-style UA game featuring The
Lighthouse That Walked Like A Man, shooting death->rays from its rotating
lamp as it rampaged across the US.  Thanks a lot, man.  thanks a whole lot.

Top idea though! Have you played Penny-Arcade's On The Rain-slick Precipice
of Darkness?

Featuring the gargantuan steam and sin powered fruit fucker robot?!

Bret Allen

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[mailto:ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] On Behalf Of Dean Reilly
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Subject: Re: [UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast

Great.  Now I've had an idea for a pulp-style UA game featuring The
Lighthouse That Walked Like A Man, shooting death-rays from its rotating
lamp as it rampaged across the US.  Thanks a lot, man.  thanks a whole lot.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Bret Allen <arcturus91 at hotmail.com> wrote:

Cool story, plus:

The lighthouse is still used as a navigational aid and a hostel

A hostel is a good location and dynamic for a game, methinks.

The lighthouse of course was not moved by train, it just moved, at the
command of the mechanomancer who built it.

The reason was because 1925 is when Great Gatsby was written, and all of the
real-life adepts and avatars from the book, who until then had thought
themselves hidden and safe, had to find new places to lay low.

The lighthouse owner is the old garage mechanic, Wilson, who rather than
dying that night, left behind a proxy and fled to start a new life.

One problem- the book says Wilson dies, and as it gains momentum in the
minds of America, the events of the book start to affect the real people. In
order to stop the voodoo-doll novel from killing him (or rather, the cosmos
to re-write him as dead to match the book), Wilson made another big move,
this time taking his lighthouse to cali and becoming a hotel manager (or
whatever) and symbolically changing himself as much as possible.

Of course, he won't recall that, because the last step of the identity
change was to pull in a favour from Owl Eyes and his Room of Renunciation.

Some say that the Lighthouse had a second purpose other than being a moving
safehouse. That light attracts more than just moths and ships; it attracts
spirits. Wilson was holding a vigil for Mertyl, his poor dead wife, hoping
to somehow bring her back.

Maybe it will work. 

Bret Allen

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[mailto:ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] On Behalf Of John Tynes
Sent: 09 June 2008 13:00
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Subject: [UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast

An 1881 cast-iron lighthouse was moved from Cape Cod to California in 1925.
Local historians believed it had been destroyed, but it's still going
strong.

Why did it really move, who really moved it, and what is it watching out
for?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/04/lighthouse.found.ap/index.html

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John Scott Tynes

http://www.JohnTynes.com/

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