[UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast

[Tim Toner]

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From: Bret Allen <arcturus91 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 2:11:00 AM
Subject: RE: [UA] Lighthouse rediscovered on opposite coast


 
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?!
 Let me second that endorsement.  Though brief and laughably easy once you get the rhythm of the special moves down, there is much to admire in this game.  Even though much of it is done for laughs, there are a few, "Damn, that's COOL!" moments, such as 'The Silent Pope' and the Cataract.  And the final boss, while clearly visible from a far off distance, is still quite an amusing spectacle when seen in all its glory.

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-- Paul Krugman, "Conservatives are such jokers." NYTimes 05 October 2007.



 
Bret Allen
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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
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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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Magazine
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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
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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
 
-- 
John Scott Tynes
http://www.JohnTynes.com/
 
 

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