Spurious Contraptions & Other Steampunk Oddities

Perhaps a source to include in this mod is the SyFy channel's Sanctaury. It follows a kind of League, about a group of individuals who while attending Oxford in the mid 1800's, procured a sample of vampire blood and injected themselves with it. The leader of the group, Helen Magnus, pretty much became immortal; Druid was able to teleport and went mad becoming Jack the Ripper; Watson's mind increased almost exponentially; Tesla, developed magneto-like pwers and became a pseudo-vampire, and Nigel Griffin was able to become invisible. The show mainly takes place in current day "Old City" and Magnus's drive to find and protect "abnormals," ex: Bigfoot is her manservant (butler/bodygaurd).
Civs would inlcude the Cabal, Vampires, Hollow Earth, a crazy billionare, and the Sanctaury Network.

It doesn't actually use any kind of "steam" power, but a Victorian woman wielding a laser pistol while chasing werewolves with Jack the Ripper come close. Plus, her father was probably the source for Dr. Monroe.
 
Oh, look at all this tiny type! Everything on the chart must be true!
 
You've just proved that you haven't read the chrat in its entirety. Read up to the last line ;).
 
Hmmm, I'm quite good at GTA, so, maybe I'd survive? :p

Why are those GREEN goggles in your avatar, Mr. KingArthur? Don't tell me you see everything in a green haze after last Sunday.
 
jlvfr said:
Steam-powered computer incoming?
Babage's machine
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Great link! We'll have to follow that project. If anything else comes up post it.

This ain't that but it's worth a chortle:

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Something like the ETAK project from Freespace II (a device to communicate with alien race) could be added…
 
Since I've already mentioned the 1800 collection, I'll also talk about the latest series I've read from it : Grands Anciens (Great Old Ones) by Jean-Marc Lainé (scenario) and Bojan Vukic (drawing). First tome is titled 'La Baleine Blanche' (The While Whale) and second 'Le Dieu-Poulpe' (The Octopus-God).

As you've probably guessed it with the titles, it's a crossover between Hermann Melville's Moby-Dick and H. P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu: In New Bedford, Hermann Melville meets a young Ishmaël and tell him an adventure of Captain Achab, before he lost his leg.

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The tale was nice, nothing overwhelming, with a few surprises and a few timing discrepancies (Queequeeg already hired on the Pequod, for instance). The art was good, although uneven.

It does have a few ideas I'll spoil here, for modding sake. If you're planning to read the comics, you're better off without knowing them.

Spoiler :
  • The Pequod is at some point upgraded with special harpoon cannons designed with the Barbicane Assembly Hall. The same assembly is also building the Nautilus (Nemo's Nautilus ? In 1849-1850 ?).
  • There is a whole species of white sperm-whale, fighting Cthulhu and/or his Spawns and beating them back to R'Lyeh whenever one escapes.

    One modding mind can easily spot a two units line (the Pequod), a hammer-boosting Great Wonder (the Barbicane Ateliers) and an undersea special unit (white sperm-whales - does Tom still have his model ready ?).
 
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