A game in my head

[rob_donoghue]

There is a space between Hunter and Mage where my brain goes sometimes. It's a room where the music is the kind of electronic that makes serious use of strings rather than industrial drums, and a handful of people are preparing weapons that carry unique visual signatures - baroque brass pistols, knives with ornately engraved blades and such -

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[uncledark]

Hmmm. I wanna play!

[uncledark]

Of course, now that I think of it, this would make a good non-Dresdenverse low-lever DFRPG setting.

[drivingblind]

It totally would. I'd run it, too.

[ect]

I like this place, and I want to go there.

[reverancepavane]

No guts, no glory, and the probable reward is a gruesome and messy death. If you are lucky. But someone has to do it.
How can I ever go back to my old life knowing what I know and having seen what I've seen?
Hmmm. Even if you don't do anything with this idea it's tempting to use Grey Ranks to play it. Except I can't even get any of my normal cohort to play the standard game, let alone a "Grave Ranks" variant.

Twenty Palaces with a beat you can dance to

[amberley]

A neat idea!

For why magic is a bad idea I'd recommend Harry Connolly's excellent recent debut novel Child of Fire and for music as magic (but with just people, no monsters but what we make of ourselves) I'd highly recommend Phonogram: Singles Club (collection should be out 3/31, seven single issues available at decent comic book stores now), about music as magic and how people shape their identities through music.

I've thought about mixing Twenty Palaces vs. Phonomancers even while realizing it would be a Great Wrong, perhaps as great as Jonathan Coulton's soft rock cover of Baby Got Back.

If Vincent Baker ever finished Afraid, I think it would be ideal for this kind of thing, where obsession turns fans into monsters who have acolytes, minions, and victims, and the protagonists are friends or relatives of the victims who try to save them, but risk getting caught themselves in the cycle of obsession. I want to see the character who is a professional victim, who's good at attracting monsters' attention, then enticing friends into

[incandescens]

While I am also intrigued by these ideas, my inner editor feels the need to point out that if that final sentence is supposed to be French, then the second person singular present tense imperative is "ecrase", not "escrazez". (And there would be an acute accent on the first letter, only I can't work out how to do that.)

Clearly I am the woman in the cubicle. :P

[rob_donoghue]

To this I can only say, Don't blame me, blame Voltaire!

[incandescens]

I will!

(I was about to mutter about "but pray to God that he forgive us all," but then I remembered that was Villon, not Voltaire. I blush for shame.)

(The Ballade des pendus - a literal translation is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballade_des_pendus, but there's a better translation here at the bottom of the page, by Swinburne.)

(This is probably more than you wanted.)