On Tue, 6 May 1997, Anthony Woo wrote:

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Dragoon wrote:

What if you set Bubblegum Crisis in the 1900's?
Imagine an alternative world where:
1. Magic works.

Are you going to throw in some Mage: the Ascention?  (that might actually
work you know)

No idea here, never heard of it...

[snippy]

3. Lord Quincy (through the Emperor) soon industrialized 
Japan with the European machines and also brought magic
from mostly some small tricks and illusions to a professional
activity taught in schools and capable of destroying cities.

He brought magic from the Europeans?  The Europeans would use tech-magic
or religious(Christan-based) magic.  China and India would have some of
the more powerful "pure" magic (at least in the direction of distruction).
Japan, Korea, and China would have powerful forms of martial (as in hand
to hand combat) magic.  Projectile magic could be brorought over from
europe and the americas.  

Er, you do realize that there's no such thing as "Christian magic".  :P
;)

It would be *much* more challenging, and in my estimation, much more
*FUN*, to do this story without resort to magic of any sort.  Figure out
how to do it with Jules Verneish style tech, or Spirit-of-Wonderish, for
those of you who may have seen that anime.  ;)

I do have some other ideas, mainly having to do with what kind of
fantasy/non-magic setting to set this in, but...  *evil grin*

So, how many people can we conceivably get to work on this together and
still have a decent story that makes sense?  I think three is really
pushing it, and someone else has already come up with a snippet of
prose, so...  Vat you think, all?

Damon Casale, damoo@carmelnet.com
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