[UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast

[Anthony H.]

I wish I had a machine capable of playing that...

- Anthony H.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Bret Allen <arcturus91 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>   >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?
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> Featuring the gargantuan steam and sin powered fruit fucker robot?!
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> *From:* ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com [mailto:
> ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] *On Behalf Of *Dean Reilly
> *Sent:* 10 June 2008 01:33
> *To:* The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast
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> 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:
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> Cool story, plus:
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> The lighthouse is still used as a navigational aid and a hostel
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> A hostel is a good location and dynamic for a game, methinks.
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> The lighthouse of course was not moved by train, it just moved, at the
> command of the mechanomancer who built it.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Maybe it will work.
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>
> *Bret Allen*
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> *==========*
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> *Editor - Sleepwalkers Magazine*
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> www.sleepwalkersmagazine.com
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> www.sleepwalkersphotography.com
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> tel -01782822750
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> mob - 07795320920
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> hq - 2 Queens Row
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> Bournes Bank
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> *From:* ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com [mailto:
> ua-bounces at lists.unknown-armies.com] *On Behalf Of *John Tynes
> *Sent:* 09 June 2008 13:00
> *To:* UAML Mailing List
> *Subject:* [UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast
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> 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.
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> Why did it really move, who really moved it, and what is it watching out
> for?
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> http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/04/lighthouse.found.ap/index.html
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> --
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> John Scott Tynes
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