Tell us about your Loop!
Dec 25, 2017 16:35:13 GMT -8
Post by EricaOdd on Dec 25, 2017 16:35:13 GMT -8
We don't have a "TftL" thread down in the specific games section, so for now we post here!
If you're planning to run Tales from the Loop, where will you place your Loop? Going with the original Swedish location? Boulder City, NV? Norfolk Broads in the UK? Or making your own?
Here's what I'm considering if I get to run this:
Welcome to Silver Bay, Minnesota!
This little town 60 miles northeast of Duluth on the shores of Lake Superior seems to have it all. It even has... MYSTERY!
Silver Bay, MN topographic map
Silver Bay, MN on Wikipedia
It's a bit small for the suggested town size, but I think it'll work. Perhaps we can assume that the town is a bit bigger than the map shows, given the additional population required to work at the DART facility.
I chose there mainly because landscape there more closely matches the landscape in the artwork, and Lake Superior is right there for the "large body of water" that all the Loops seem to be near and... more interestingly... given that much of the population of the area is descended from Swedish immigrants, one could use the original last names and they woudln't seem all that out of place! Of course, I'll have to put up with the players all trying to talk like Marge Gundersen... yah youbecha!
BACKGROUND
In "the 80s that never were" the taconite mining facilities were never built. Instead, the town was created in the 50s specifically because of the Loop. The facility is located on what in our world is the taconite tailing ponds, and the industrial buildings nearby are the DART lab(s). The hills in the area contain some other element useful to DARPA and the DART project, and the tiny little community of Silver Bay joined the ranks of the Malaren Islands, the Norfolk Broads of England, and Boulder City, Nevada (and perhaps other places) in being the location of the technological marvel that is the Loop.
If you're planning to run Tales from the Loop, where will you place your Loop? Going with the original Swedish location? Boulder City, NV? Norfolk Broads in the UK? Or making your own?
Here's what I'm considering if I get to run this:
Welcome to Silver Bay, Minnesota!
This little town 60 miles northeast of Duluth on the shores of Lake Superior seems to have it all. It even has... MYSTERY!
Silver Bay, MN topographic map
Silver Bay, MN on Wikipedia
It's a bit small for the suggested town size, but I think it'll work. Perhaps we can assume that the town is a bit bigger than the map shows, given the additional population required to work at the DART facility.
I chose there mainly because landscape there more closely matches the landscape in the artwork, and Lake Superior is right there for the "large body of water" that all the Loops seem to be near and... more interestingly... given that much of the population of the area is descended from Swedish immigrants, one could use the original last names and they woudln't seem all that out of place! Of course, I'll have to put up with the players all trying to talk like Marge Gundersen... yah youbecha!
BACKGROUND
In "the 80s that never were" the taconite mining facilities were never built. Instead, the town was created in the 50s specifically because of the Loop. The facility is located on what in our world is the taconite tailing ponds, and the industrial buildings nearby are the DART lab(s). The hills in the area contain some other element useful to DARPA and the DART project, and the tiny little community of Silver Bay joined the ranks of the Malaren Islands, the Norfolk Broads of England, and Boulder City, Nevada (and perhaps other places) in being the location of the technological marvel that is the Loop.