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Literary London

The "Classics" come alive.


Pantope Logs:

Introduction

Holocaust World

The Eilythry

Hong Kong

Toon

Deryni Gwenedd

Middle Earth

Hreme

The South Seas

Eastmarch

Back to Hreme

Exploring The Pantope

Back to Middle Earth

The CoDominion

Turtle World

New York City

Classical London

On the Dance of Hours

Dinosaurs

Back to the Pantope

Back to the Dinosaurs

Dumping the Diadem

Cross Time Logs:

Helene

Back to Jack

Saving the Hierowesch

Allied Epochs

Off to See the Wizard

Search for Holmes

Dimlai

Having played in the New York sewers of comic book and TV fantasy, the party moves to Victorian London, the home of Holmes and Dracula, Challenger and Quatermain. The world they find themselves in is, in fact, exactly the one portrayed in so many great novels. Well, perhaps not exactly. It is a bit more like the one in which the real events that inspired Doyle, Haggard, Stoker and the others, or one in which the novels have sprung to life, and take a life all their own. I have never let the party know which of those two models I run the world by, but it's clear that it is a world closely tied to the fiction of our world.

Here the names are similar but occasionally different. The Great Detective is name "Sherrinford", Alan Quartermain has an additional R in his name. They meet several of Doyle's characters, and of Haggard's. They fight vampires in Carlfax Abbey, and unspeakable horrors that might have given Lovercraft a bad dream or two. This was a favorite setting of mine and the party has returned there, and a couple of them even come from there.


Created: 24-May-98
Copyright © 1998, Jim Burrows. All Rights Reserved.

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