La Profecía de la Crisis

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La Profecía de la Crisis

Publicado en September 18th, 2009 Por Administrator.
Categoria: Audio Programas, Crisis, Profecías.

La Profecía de la Crisis, con este título quiero hablaros de lo que una serie de libros dicen sobre la crisis, libros cuyos autores no cayeron esn estados alterados de conciencia, tampoco vieron visiones, libros en los que los autores nos muestran un terrible paisaje cuyo cenith es alcanzado a finales de 2011.

El panorama no es nada alagüeño, enormes tasas de paro, vuelta al racionamiento de los bienes básicos, durisimos conflictos sociales, tensiones, movilizaciones, guerrillas urbanas, subidas de las fuentes energéticas, semi-privatización del estado, chipeado de la población, guetos prisión… un paisaje preapocalíptico que parace dibujares inexorablemente.

En cierto modo me recuerda a la tercera parte de aquella vieja película titulada “La Profecía, el conflicto final”

Les invito a que escuchen este extenso e imprescindible audioprograma donde les hablamos de todo ello con datos precisos.

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La Espada Esmeralda

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Volando sobre las alas del Gran Tharos, los personajes llegan a las Puertas de Marfil.

En medio de la arena infinita del desierto, como si no perteneciera allí, está la estructura completamente blanca y pura. Se compone de 3 enormes estatuas blancas de dragones que miran a un altar de marfil en el medio con varios grabados e inscripciones.

Los grabados son ilustraciones de la espada esmeralda. Una espada de mano y media con un canal en medio de la hoja y hecha completamente de esmeralda. Hay tres inscripciones que dicen, en orden:

"Por los Reyes, las tierras y las montañas
Por los verdes valles donde vuelan los dragones
por la gloria y el poder necesarios
para vencer al Señor Oscuro
debes buscar la Espada Esmeralda."

"Solo un guerrero con el corazón puro
puede tener el honor de ser tocado por el sol
¿Eres tú ese guerrero,
quien ha recorrido un camino
guiado por el destino
y quien puede blandir la Espada Esmeralda?"

"En el camino a la gloria
deberás honrar a tu espada
procurar ideales buenos
y justicia para todos."

Los personajes se despidieron de Tharos, quien dio a su amiga Rose un orbe muy importante para él, que puede utilizarse para comunicarse con él e incluso llamar su ayuda.

Los Heraldos de las Tierras Encantadas (Rose, Arwald, Sin Nombre y Baru) subieron al altar y minuciosamente investigaron el lugar antes de proceder. Lo que les salvó la vida por un hechizo de colores que contenía la puerta secreta para ingresar al altar.

Dentro encontraron una habitación de ilusiones, que también inspeccionaron bien para no caer en una trampa. Lograron derrotar a las ilusiones pero sus ojos no pudieron creer lo que veían al contemplar a dos demonios de piedra que guardaban las Puertas de Marfil despertar de su sueño. Con suerte y habilidad lograron desarmar a los golems de piedra y procedieron al infinito reino de la Tierra de los Inmortales.

Allí cada personaje llegó en un tiempo diferente y a un lugar distinto, por lo que tomó varios años para que se lograran reunir de nuevo. Por suerte, el tiempo no transcurre de igual manera ahí dentro .

Finalmente los heraldos se reunieron en un lago y conocieron a un dragón bebé. Un nuevo aliado en su búsqueda por la Espada Esmeralda.

(Faltan los dibujos, aun no los escaneo)

[Cthulhu Berlin]: Appendix N

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Saturday, September 19, 2009

[Cthulhu Berlin]: Appendix N

Taking a page from Ken Hite, my first step in working up a Cthulhu Berlin campaign setting is historical research. Fortunately, that's something I'm very, very good at.

I've availed myself of a few online sources, but most of my reading will be the old-fashioned variety. I've got a fair pile of books on their way to me via various library channels. Whenever I can, I like to supplement my reading with immersion in period films (either, if possible, contemporary or of the "historical drama" variety) and music. Here, then, is my own Appendix N of Cthulhoid Berlin.

Pandora's Box (1929)
M (1931)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Vampyr (1932)
Cabaret (1972)
The Threepenny Opera (1928) by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Voluptuous Panic by Mel Gordon
The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber by Mel Gordon
Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant by Mel Gordon
Berlin: The Twenties by Rainer Metzger
Bertolt Brecht's Berlin: A Scrapbook of the Twenties by Wolf Von Eckardt and Sander L. Gilman
The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin by Barbara Ulrich
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-1933 by Joseph Roth
The Secret King: The Myth and Reality of Nazi Occultism by Michael Moynihan and Stephen E. Flowers
Cabaret Berlin: Revue, Kabarett And Film Music Between The Wars (this one's a book AND four musical CDs!)
"Oh! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie
"Venus in Furs" by The Velvet Underground

Yes, those last two are not period pieces at all, but they nicely capture the tone and themes I want to go for. "Venus in Furs" is, I think, a great bit of musical shorthand for the sexually depraved, morally bankrupt atmosphere of the setting, and Bowie's song, with its Lovecraftian undertones and cabaret-style piano, seems an apt thematic intersection. Plus you just can't beat this lyric with a tentacle:

Wake up you sleepy head
Put on some clothes, shake up your bed
Put another log on the fire for me
I've made some breakfast and coffee
I look out my window what do I see
A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me
All the nightmares came today
And it looks as though they're here to stay

I might add to this list in the future; I haven't really begun to delve into books specifically on the German occult community at this time, which I know was absolutely huge. Voluptuous Panic has a great chapter on the subject, and a couple books on the list deal with the Nazi side of things, but I'm curious about other angles as well.

I'm quite excited about the possibilities already. I wrote in the comments to my last post on the subject that "already I'm getting a sense of a 'Big Three' of Elder Gods/Old Ones with an especial presence in Berlin: Nyarlathotep Hastur, Shub-Niggurath, and Y'Golonac."

4 comments:

kelvingreen said...

There's so much good solid potential in there! It's a few years and one war later, but the Cold City rpg may also provide some inspiration.

Y'Golonac was a large part of my first big CoC campaign. He works well when you're going more for human rather than cosmic horror, as he's very much tied in with human depravity and corruption, while the majority of the GOOs and gods barely recognise human activity.

Good stuff!

September 20, 2009 2:55 AM

kelvingreen said...

Also, not entirely related, but Bowie made an appearance in my recent modern-day campaign; the player group was financed by a barely-disguised Thin White Duke, which just seemed to add to the strangeness!

September 20, 2009 2:58 AM

sirlarkins said...

Bowie is great NPC fodder. I used the Duke persona as inspiration for the King of the Fae Realm in my last Pendragon campaign.

He very might turn up again in Berlin, for sure. Especially since now that I think about it, as you point out, Y'Golonac fills the "human horror" quotient nicely, which ends up competing with the typical role Nyarlathotep fills. So I think I'll bump Nyarly down to a minor role similar to the one he plays in the Delta Green setting. I think he'll be the owner of Berlin's Nazi cabaret--based on the crazy shit that went down there on a nightly basis, it's really not that much of a stretch at all.

Replacing N. in the Big Three will, of course, be Hastur. This gives me a fine excuse to run Tatters of the King, shifted from London to Berlin, of course.

September 20, 2009 1:58 PM

crazyred said...

Goddamn this sounds righteous. Wish I could be there!

In case you're looking for something else to read, I'd recommend Kerr's Berlin Noir series; great Weimar stuff, the latest -- A Quiet Flame -- while not the best, has some great decadent Berlin color.

Keep us posted!

September 20, 2009 8:26 PM

RPG - James Maliszewski

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"There's not enough discussion of playing these games we all love so much. Don't get me wrong: I think theory is very important and I think (obviously) the history of the hobby is even more important. At the same time, we are talking about entertainments here and philosophizing about games without actually playing them is about as pointlessly decadent as I can imagine." --James Maliszewski

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Death Star Disco

Two icons of the Seventies for the price of one: Stars Wars meets Disco.

Source: Death Star Disco Ball