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'''Please note''': While we're using real place names, the game takes place in an ahistorical past.  Any resemblance is coincidental and/or for convenience.
 
'''Please note''': While we're using real place names, the game takes place in an ahistorical past.  Any resemblance is coincidental and/or for convenience.
  
==Nantucket==
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*''Population'' = ~3,000
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Metropolitan Paris in the early Fifth Republic, a period of political convulsion, national renewal, and vibrant intellectual and cultural creativity. Also a symbolic battleground for the ideologies of the Cold War.
*''Primary businesses'': Tourism, fishing
 
 
 
* An [https://nha.org/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions-archive/the-nantucket-art-colony-1920-1945/ Art Colony] started up in the 1920s.
 
* Someone drew a rendering of the local [https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/23971/ Ye Olde Curiosity Shop] which is convenient.
 
* Check out this sweet [https://www.knowol.com/information/massachusetts/travel-poster-nantucket-mass/' Travel Poster].
 
* Someone took some [https://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/3784/maurice-w-boyer-photog/aerial-views-of-nantucket-mass/?soldItem=true Aeriel Photographs].
 
* Everyone is dancing [https://youtu.be/FQ7SNTSq-9o the Charleston].
 
 
 
===After Oar===
 
 
 
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*Technically now just a boarding house, thanks to Prohibition, it's still the best place on the island to get a pint.
 
 
 
==Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard==
 
 
 
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*''Population'' = ~1,000
 
*''Primary businesses'': Tourism, fishing
 
*Also known as "Cottage City" for its famous "gingerbread cottage" style houses
 
 
 
*[http://ww.cottagecityoysters.com/images/cottagecity.jpg Large map of Cottage City, 1887]
 
  
 
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=Important People=

Revision as of 01:30, 8 August 2019

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Scenario Overview

A mismatched group of Agents from various backgrounds and affiliations combat the Unnatural in Nouvelle Vague Paris and beyond.

Helpful Resources

Mechanical Game Information

Player Investigator HP Sanity Magic Points Insanities Notes
brahnamin William "Liam" Johnson 8 90 18
DannyK Archibald "Wink" Winkworth 12 60 12
Roger Gertrude Bradley 14 45 9
pstjmack John Perry 10 50 10
Regular Guy Vernon Weatherby 14 60 12
RuneMagus James Scott

Important Places

Please note: While we're using real place names, the game takes place in an ahistorical past. Any resemblance is coincidental and/or for convenience.

Paris

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Upper Main Street Nantucket.jpg

Metropolitan Paris in the early Fifth Republic, a period of political convulsion, national renewal, and vibrant intellectual and cultural creativity. Also a symbolic battleground for the ideologies of the Cold War.

Important People

  • Sig Torvald, Nantucketer ne'er-do-well fisherman

Investigative Leads