| From: | Kelly Martin <kelly@*******.BLOOMINGTON.IN.US> |
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| Subject: | Re: regional backgrounds |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Sep 1995 22:51:34 EST5 |
Andrew> Yes. Leave Nashville, TN alone. I'm currently writing it for
Andrew> Shadowland.
well, Nashville, TN is in the CAS, and i wasn't planning on going that far
south. i'm mainly concentratiing on Indiana because that's where i'm
from, and having lived in three of its larger cities (Indianapolis,
Lafayette, and Bloomington) i can do a moderately good job on central
indiana. but i want to have a sense of what other cities in the area
are like.
i will be dealing with Nashville, IN, however. i'm trying to decide
how hard the UCAS pushed native americans and metahumans out of this
region, which (imo) is ripe for being a tight cell of metahumanity and
awakened beings--brown county is perhaps one of the least developed
regions in the midwest. i'm toying with basically turning the entire
hoosier national forest into an area not friendly to those who would
exploit the land. :)
except for a few select regions, most of indiana is likely to be
antagonistic toward metahumans and rather antagonistic toward native
americans. i haven't decided on how industrial assets will be
distributed amongst the megacorps. anyone know what has happened in
france, specifically with Thomson SA (a major french arms
manufacturing company and current-day owner of RCA)?
i'm tempted to keep the indy 500 running (there are, after all,
references to racing in some of the books still). but my initial
feeling is that most of indiana (and in fact much of the midwest) will
remain agricultural, producing mostly soybeans (soybeans are nearly
the number one crop in indiana now as it is).
magically, some notable areas will be battleground, in (the site of an
old indian massacre) and the site in northwestern jackson county where
the lakota have been holding a major ritual for some years now
already. crane naval weapons depot, in northern martin county, and
jefferson proving grounds, in jefferson and ripley counties, will be
toxic due to pollution from weapons testing. i need to do more
research to identify other little things; fortunately, Indiana
University has very thorough historical archives.
>> regions. anything about cincinnati, louisville, or st. louis would
>> be nice too.
Andrew> I'd be interested in seeing what people would do with
Andrew> Lousyville, considering I'm originally a Louavillian.
i doubt i'll get that far south. i try to avoid kentucky as much as
possible. :)
k.
--
kelly martin <kelly@*******.bloomington.in.us>
There are members of any legislative body who can be differentiated
from streetlights only because their noses don't light up.
-- Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
