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A Modern Day League
I know this topic has come up before in various forms on the LoEG boards but i thought i'd wheel it out again and dust it down, seeing as we are between volumes and things are kinda slow.
So, a modern day League. I think any modern day League should be an international UN peacekeeping kinda thing rather than a team tied specifically to one country because...
a) Modern day britain is crap.
b) There are not as many good modern english characters than there are amercan ones. In my opinion.
c) The modern climate is better suited toward such an international team. In my opinion.
Which brings me to members:
Regan McNeil (from The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty)
Dr Hannibal Lecter (from Red Dragon etc, by Thomas Harris)
Johnny Smith (from The Dead Zone, by Stephen King)
Thomas Jerome Newton (from the Man Who Fell To Earth, by Walter Tevis)
Edward Bloom (from Big Fish, by Daniel Wallace)
Special Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks).
Ok ok i know Cooper is a tv character but... um... i don't care. He's good. And there is precedent within LoEG anyway as both Twin Peaks and Glastonbury grove are mentioned in the Almanack in volume 2.
Here is what i would do if i were writing League (i can dream  )...
Firstly i would include Talbot Mundy's adventurer JimGrim in the 20s League. In some of the JimGrim Stories JimGrim encounters an evil group known as the Black lodge and their benevolent counterparts the White Lodge, both based in Tibet. I'd mention the Lodges, but probably only in passing reference.
Next i'd go on and do however many 1920s League stories i wanted, then maybe a 1940s League, then a 1950s League or whatever... just doing each incarnation of the League until i felt i'd done all i wanted to with them before moving on to the next.
When i got to the present day League i'd use the characters listed above and make the League international.
Regan would be grown up and would probably be the epitome of the soiled woman that is traditionally linked with the League.
Hannibal would probably be in the team for his own amusement. Membership in the League would afford him opportunities to encounter the sort of mental stimulation he would rarely get in everday life. Nevertheless he would be a ticking timebomb.
Bloom is a modern day Munchausen and his death could very easily be explained away in true Moore style.
Smith is psychic and Newton is an alien, hence their kinda self-explanatory inclusion.
Because the story is set after the events of Twin Peaks Agent Cooper would still have the murderous spirit of Killer Bob trapped inside him and i guess that might play out in a Jekyll and Hyde kinda way.
In Twin Peaks there are 2 opposing groups of supernatural entities known as the Black Lodge and the White lodge, which are also mysteriously linked to Tibet. I would link the Lodges from Twin Peaks with the Mundy Lodges (possibly the Mundy Lodges are the earthly representatives of the Twin Peaks Lodges) and have the League facing off against them for some spooky occult dimension-hopping fun.
Just an idea. Possibly a crap one, but i think it would be cool.
What do you guys think? And what members or storylines would you all like to see involving a modern League?
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Re: A Modern Day League
Um... ok so i forgot Tom Ripley. Oops.
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Re: A Modern Day League
At least this topic had an open invitation in it.
OK.
Picutre it: Germany, 1984. It's a cold day in January, and the metric clocks strike 11. {1984 by George Orwell}
We start off in the construction site of Metropolis {Metropolis, Fritz Lang's masterpiece}. Workers find something strange in the bottom, and the German government (a member of the Eurasian Pact {1984 again}) sends out a call for assistance from the British government (a memeber of the Oceania union {the UN + 1984}).
The British government sends retired MI6 agent Derek Flint {Our Man Flint, In Like Flint} to investigate (something to keep the old man occupied) where he finds a massive tank or holding cell of some kind. Inside, he sees writhing, tentacled forms {I wonder...}. The construction workers have dubbed it the "Heart Machine" because of the shape of it and it's location in the cavern {The mystery machine in Metropolis}. Flint returns to Britain and declares that something... wonky is occuring in Germany.
Little does Flint know, but he's being stalked by a pregnant woman under the obvious psuedonym of "Sarah Cameron" {Gee, I wonder who this could be...}. This is gonna be important later.
The British government gives Flint the keys to the offices in the rear of the British Museum and tells him that he's in charge of an old, traditional group of operatives known as the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. As the group is currently sans members, it's up to him to recruit some and start an investigation into the Metropolis Anomaly.
Flint, uncertain of what to do, asks his American friend Dr. Egon Spengler {Ghostbusters}to help him with his inquiries. Egon joins the League and travels with Flint to Germany. Egon declares that the Heart Machine is a type of prison for some kind of spirit {hence where he got the idea in the movie}, and also a strange plumbing system. Egon has been in correspondence with a plumber in Japan known for making outrageous claims such as travelling to a territory of Wonderland {Alice} called "The Mushroom Kingdom" {Duh} or encountering giant apes in the sewers and abandonned construction sites of Tokyo {Donky Kong}. They decide to travel to Japan to find him.
It is a period of civil unrest. Riots are occuring all over the world. The United States is on the brink of civil war over the severe poverty and poor living conditions. A long dormant, half-jocular suggestion from the 1950's is brought up for serious consideration: The Big Brother Act {basically, the Patriot Act + Orwell Gone Wild}. A radical public re-education movement is enacted, spearheaded by the newly formed Ministry of Truth {1984}. One such result is the convincing of one small town that Benjamin Franklin was actually a bookburner, and that all books are evil {Wouldn't be an Orwellian future without some sort of Fahrenheit 451 reference}. The experiment was discontinued, but the results were stil kept as noteworthy.
When the League (consisting thus far of two people) reaches Japan, they immediately begin seeking the mysterious plumber. They ask an American named Chase {Neuromancer}, a systems administrator at Nakatomi Enterprises {Die Hard} where to find him. The man reveals that the plumber works at Nakamoto Incorporated {Rising Sun}, designing the plumbing systems in their new buildings. They find the plumber, a mentally "shaken" man named Mario {Super Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong}.
The further expanded League travels once again to Germany. Mario, fiddling with the Heart Machine, inadvertantly breaks it, setting a presence of some kind free into the ocean. Egon laments his actions. The League returns to the British Museum to regroup and consider.
Upon arriving, Flint captures his stalker. She reveals that her unborn child is destined to be a revolutionary, a great warrior {Sarah and John Conner, of Terminator fame}. She demands that Flint teach her the arts of espionage, sabotage, infiltration, termination, etc. Flint initially refuses, but then...
Panic breaks out. The world is embroiled in madness. In the south Pacific, an island {R'Lyeh} rises up at the coordinates of the legendary "Five Deaths" {Jurassic Park}. Ancient legends are coming true...
Lights appear in the sky. Alien spacecraft attack the cities of the Earth in rigid grid-like patterns {Space Invaders}, demanding the extradition of Earth's "Dread Demon". The League, holed up in London, aids in the fight. Flint takes the opportunity to show Sarah how to shoot straight, kill a man with a spoon, all the essentials.
An American Federal Marshall, ignoring the boundaries of country and nation, chases Sarah Conner to England. she is wanted in connection to the murder of a drifter in an automotive factory. The marshall's name? Here's a hint... Who's the black private **** that's a sex machine to all the chicks? {Shaft!} Ya damn right.
As the world slips into utter chaos, Shaft encounters the League and demands that Sarah return with him to America. However, America closes its borders in order to preserve civil order. The entire planet is brought under martial law. Then, all hell breaks loose.
In the skies above, massive spacecraft appear. The otherworldly races meet to discuss the Earth Problem. Present are...
-The Time Lords {From Dr. Who, though it's hinted they are also Ra's species form Stargate as well as a number of other super powerful species}
-The Daleks {Dr. Who}
-The Grebleips {ET, also appeared in Star Wars, the Phantom Menace, from whence comes the name}
-The Martians... {All of 'em. Hithers, Sorn, Green, "Princess People"... also a few more: The "Stranger in a Strange Land" Martians are mentioned as a group of religions fanatics, the events of "The Martian Chronicles" are mentioned as a wild exaggeration of the effects of a mission to Mars, though events in this story conspire to eradicate all Martian life, even the Martians from "Total Recall", "Quatermass and the Pit" and "Mission to Mars" get a nod as architects of current Martian biology}
-The Locusts {Independence Day, revealed to be cohorts of the Mollucs}
And, mentioned...
-The Covenant {Halo, didn't respond to request for meeting, it's implied this is a good thing}
-The Overmind {Childhood's End, mentioned in conjunction with the Borg as "the increasing problem of trans-species psychic parasties"}
-Xenomorphs {AKA the "Aliens" from Alien, Aliens, etc}
-Predators {Predator}
-Miscellaneous Star Wars and Dune references in the opening Prayer, referring to the "Son of the Sons" and the "Kwizats Haderach", as well as ending with "Don't Panic".
R'Lyeh is now fully emerged, with a roiling mass of people on it, eagerly awaiting the revelation of their new master. The governments of the world invest in a number of companies to produce automated weapons to destroy whatever the hell it is that stumbles out of that vault, namely a major computer company named "Cyberdyne" {Terminator again, though you could concievably add in Replicants and Cylons comfortably}. The aliens seed earth with "Xenomorph" eggs. The world watches, waits. The League travels to R'lyeh to prepare for the first coming, and then...
Whatever.
-Of course, they win (more or less), then split up, determined to rebel against the totalitarian government that has sprung up.
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Re: A Modern Day League
well i wolud have
Charlie ashanti (lion boy)
calvin (clavin and hobbs)
stig (stig of the dump)
aurther dent (hitch hikers guide to the galaxy)
voilet baudelie (a series of unfortunte events)
stanly ipkis (the mask)
for the clavin thing so you know i've made his chacter so he can make whatever he imanges becomes real
in early 2005 earth got a warning from the satalite of love which had drifted off into space.Saying an army of an alien race that looked like apes were herading to earth.The prime minster harriet jones is told by the current M about the leage and sujjested menbers for a new leage to fight off the invasing.
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Re: A Modern Day League
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pimpernel wrote:
I know this topic has come up before in various forms on the LoEG boards but i thought i'd wheel it out again and dust it down, seeing as we are between volumes and things are kinda slow.
So, a modern day League. I think any modern day League should be an international UN peacekeeping kinda thing rather than a team tied specifically to one country because...
a) Modern day britain is crap.
b) There are not as many good modern english characters than there are amercan ones. In my opinion.
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Not many good English characters? Well let's see:
Alec Rider:- Drafted into MI6 against his will as a 14 year old, now an experienced, if reluctant spay.
Lara Croft:- Born 14th February 1968, so in her early forties now. However she has more experience of the dark side of archeology than anyone other than Doctor Jones
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quote:
pimpernel wrote:
I know this topic has come up before in various forms on the LoEG boards but i thought i'd wheel it out again and dust it down, seeing as we are between volumes and things are kinda slow.
So, a modern day League. I think any modern day League should be an international UN peacekeeping kinda thing rather than a team tied specifically to one country because...
a) Modern day britain is crap.
b) There are not as many good modern english characters than there are amercan ones. In my opinion.
Not many good modern English characters? Well let's see:
Alex Rider: Drafted into MI6 against his will aged just 14. Now a veteren of several missions, despite his reluctance.
Lara Croft: Now in her early forties she has handled more adventures than any other archelogist since Dr Jones.
Door: Able to open any lock, she is claims to originate from a city underneath London
John Strange: An ex-priest and demon hunter.
And that is without having to consider any Time Lords or boy wizards
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