Lately I've been listening to a new version of an old '80s pop(rock?) hit quite a bit and there is a phrase in it I like.

This phrase:

Streetlight People.

Something about that makes me think of moody contemporary fantasy of the TWILIGHT ZONE variety -OR- a faction or group in hidden conspiracies /Illumnati type campaign setting.

If that was the name of a group in your campaign - What would that group be?

Could a player have a character in that group ?
(The Streetlight People)

How much power or influence would the Streetlight People have?


- Ed C.

A world where Karl Marx is Al Capone?

Sounds like the title of a Stephen King novella he dashed off late one Thursday night when he couldn't sleep.

Koala, if Stephen King had been born 20 to 30 years earlier - he probably would have wrtitten for The Twilight Zone. So, yeah you got sort of the idea I meant.

Just thought of two more possibilities.....

In a campaign set in the late 19th century /early 20th century - "Streetlight People" might refer to a group that has information or helps out investigators of the unusual - much like the Baker Street Irregulars of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The difference is they only meet their conacts (the player characters) within sight of the streetlights.

Second idea: A ghost or spirit form of people that have already died, but they're rather benevolent. The "Streetlight People" are charged with helping out living folks when they most need it - but only at night time. Also, they can get violent, if needed to - but very rarely as it tends to exhaust them and they risk permantly disappearing from the world if they tax their energies too much.

The second idea ...I see them as sometimes drinking coffee at all-night diners or second-rate PERKINS franchises. They mildly enjoy being around people again - but only in small groups as they can never really quite connect with them as much as they might want to.

- Ed C.

Streetlight people wear watermelon rinds for hats and control black market trading of used mouth guards.

What?

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;342399What?

It's a line . . . no, it's a couple of words from the song "Don't Stop Believin'."

QuoteStrangers waitin'
Up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searchin' in the night
Streetlight people
Livin' just to find emotion
Hidin' somewhere in the night

Or something like that. I'm too lazy to look up the actual lyrics.

Not one of my favorite Journey songs.

Quote from: The Shaman;342425It's a line . . . no, it's a couple of words from the song "Don't Stop Believin'."Or something like that. I'm too lazy to look up the actual lyrics.

Not one of my favorite Journey songs.

Maybe that was the song I've been listening to.

In the best or better, most recent version of the song - that phrase is stretched out in such a way while it is being sung that I noticed it.

Still sounds like the title of a TWILIGHT ZONE or OUTER LIMITS episode. Which to means it might inspire something userful for an RPG campaign.

- Ed C.


P.S. : I never liked JOURNEY

Quote from: Koltar;342472Maybe that was the song I've been listening to.

Yeah, maybe.

Or maybe it was one of all those other songs with the lyric "streetlight people" in it.

Jesus Christ, is this because of "Glee"?

RPGPundit