Post by The MRP! on Aug 30, 2014 4:08:58 GMT -5
Hub City will have grown from a colonial city, so parts of it will be Old World, and parts will have the new American city mentality imposed upon it. Major parts of it were rebult though so a lot feels modern, but a lot feels very old world still. Especially Old Port and Casco Township across the river, what remains of the original colonial settlements surviving into modern times, now ceded to one of the Indian nations and resevation territory (with the requisite casinos and organized crime presence).
As for the character thing, it's a bit of both, it's where their stories are linked but those are also at times points of interactions.
Corrigan's office is upstairs from Xanadu's shop, and Richard Dragon's dojo is int he same neighborhood in Chinatown, so those three know each other.
I have also been developing the city's dialect-"Oh you take the I to the junction with the Six then follow it north... means take Interstate 95 to State Route 6 and then follow that north..., something to mimic the downeast dialects of that region of the US without actually using it.
The ironic radio station-one of the Boston networks which was ubiquitous in early cable networks in the US was WLVI, so played with that to be WLIV-or We-Live the Voice of the Hub...in the city that never wakes...
and I talked with Buck to arrange to have the local university called Arkham University in the Lovecraftian tradition since I am playing with Icthulhu and imagining the Lords of Chaos in the vein of Lovecraftian cosmic horrors. Kent Nelson of course will have tenure there...
A few other notes of interest-the city seal has a Rising Phoenix on it, and the city motto is Resurgam, which translates to I will Rise Again! Historically speaking it is because the Hub has been destroyed and rebuilt a few times in it's history, but there just might be a double meaning to it, you know, it being me writing it and all.
I have gone back and numbered all those beats, which will help me when I start breaking it down by episode and issue, and that artboard you see with the character beats is the first of a few-it only fits 5 columns wide-I needed 7 at least, 1 for each of the protagonists and 1 for miscellaneous stuff, and many of the columns were longer than I had room on the art board. It's still a work in progress though, but I hope to use this holiday weekend to get a good chunk of it rounded out into shape. We'll see how it goes though.
-M
As for the character thing, it's a bit of both, it's where their stories are linked but those are also at times points of interactions.
Corrigan's office is upstairs from Xanadu's shop, and Richard Dragon's dojo is int he same neighborhood in Chinatown, so those three know each other.
I have also been developing the city's dialect-"Oh you take the I to the junction with the Six then follow it north... means take Interstate 95 to State Route 6 and then follow that north..., something to mimic the downeast dialects of that region of the US without actually using it.
The ironic radio station-one of the Boston networks which was ubiquitous in early cable networks in the US was WLVI, so played with that to be WLIV-or We-Live the Voice of the Hub...in the city that never wakes...
and I talked with Buck to arrange to have the local university called Arkham University in the Lovecraftian tradition since I am playing with Icthulhu and imagining the Lords of Chaos in the vein of Lovecraftian cosmic horrors. Kent Nelson of course will have tenure there...
A few other notes of interest-the city seal has a Rising Phoenix on it, and the city motto is Resurgam, which translates to I will Rise Again! Historically speaking it is because the Hub has been destroyed and rebuilt a few times in it's history, but there just might be a double meaning to it, you know, it being me writing it and all.
I have gone back and numbered all those beats, which will help me when I start breaking it down by episode and issue, and that artboard you see with the character beats is the first of a few-it only fits 5 columns wide-I needed 7 at least, 1 for each of the protagonists and 1 for miscellaneous stuff, and many of the columns were longer than I had room on the art board. It's still a work in progress though, but I hope to use this holiday weekend to get a good chunk of it rounded out into shape. We'll see how it goes though.
-M
