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Pulp setting: you’re on a journey in a luxurious Zeppelin, what happens?

Started by Trond, March 01, 2020, 05:05:13 PM

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Loz

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May 12, 2020, 04:01:58 PM
The scenario 'Silver Pictures Move So Slow' in the Mythras/Luther Arkwright supplement, 'Parallel Lines' is based exclusively onboard a zeppelin...

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Omega

#46
May 12, 2020, 05:57:52 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1129647I've heard that claim many time over the decades. But it's never really panned out.

Hell, this was tossed around way back in the 70s and 80s on an episode of Nova.

And wow! They really did build the Magnus? Or at least a functional prototype.

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Omega

#47
May 12, 2020, 06:01:19 PM
Speaking of airships. As mentioned in the "Cthulhu Meets Real Life" thread... Some of the things I ended up with after my aunt's death was a packet of newspapers and clippings.
One of which being the front page article on the Hindenburg. Also in there was one on the Titanic and another about Dillinger being shot. Some going so far back they were still referring to China as Cathay.

tenbones

#48
May 12, 2020, 08:12:57 PM
It turns into Led. Suddenly thunderheads billow about you keeping it aloft, and you rock the fuck out as you invade other nations and pillage them.

Trond

#49
May 30, 2020, 12:00:27 AM
Quote from: Loz;1129692The scenario 'Silver Pictures Move So Slow' in the Mythras/Luther Arkwright supplement, 'Parallel Lines' is based exclusively onboard a zeppelin...

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Looks nice! Um...what's that creature on the lower left?

Kuroth

#51
May 31, 2020, 07:25:16 PM Last Edit: May 31, 2020, 07:27:54 PM by Kuroth
Ever see the Archer episode where they are on an airship! haha  Good for some ideas.

Edit: The white thing in picture above looks more like a Morlock to me.
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Omega

#52
May 31, 2020, 11:49:12 PM
oh. Could be a more traditional troll. They were sometimes depicted like that way back.

Kuroth

#53
June 02, 2020, 02:34:27 AM
True.  Could be a Dunsany type gnole too.  These older creatures remind me of the bogymen in March of the Wooden Soldiers (Laurel and Hardy, Hal Roach film).  ha
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Lurkndog

#54
June 18, 2021, 12:43:08 PM
At one point in the past, gripped by Zeppelin lust, I came up with an idea for an airship using hot air instead of helium or hydrogen. It was basically an airborne nuclear reactor generating heat that was used to generate lift and propulsion, and run turbines for power.

I mean, what could go wrong? :)

Reckall

#55
June 19, 2021, 07:20:36 PM
"Terror from the Skies" is an official CoC campaign with a leg set aboard of the German LZ127 Graf Zeppelin at the beginning of 1929, during the round-the-world flight.

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Altheus

#56
June 21, 2021, 11:08:14 AM
One of the gasbags has a small leak, it takes the crew a long time to find and you end up flying 10 feet above the ocean, desperately trying to lighten the ship enough to get a little higher to avoid the waves in the storm that's coming in.

Reckall

#57
June 21, 2021, 07:45:45 PM
Stephrn King's Twilight Zone-inspired story, "The Langoliers" could be the start of a good adventure. However, in the story they needed a big commercial airplane with enough speed to... do things (I won't spoil: the story is wonderful; look for it). With some twists the core idea could be used, toh. And I feel that being on a dirigible is more scary than being on a modern 737.
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