Our Apocalypse World game was cancelled last night, so I invited a few people over for a one-shot of Urban Shadows set in 1879 Arizona. We had Prof. Dr. Elsa Vaughan Braun the steam-punk Wizard, Laughing Fox the Aware and Sham Hazzy the Fae. It was a great main cast of characters and I really enjoyed foreshadowing and narrating a weird and wild west. The moves worked out very well in the alternate period.
I suspect future sessions will follow and am anxious for it.
Thanks to Sean Dalziel Rob Wakefield and Aaron Friesen for their participation!
Further exploration of Professor Doctor Elsa Vaughan Braun discovered that not only is she the youngest graduate of Miskatonic University in Salem, Mass., but she is also the youngest woman to have graduated from there. As well, she is the first woman to be a member of the Collegium Scientia and the inventor of the Vaughan Braun Multiphasic Ocular Transceiver.
I like the idea to play in alternate periods. I, myself, tend to look for a closest time when seting up a game. For our Urban Shadows game (which we gonna start this weekend), me and my game group decided to set it up at Seattle in the early 90s, in the apex of the grunge scene.
That works nicely. I just like experiments like this to see how the system can be bent and twisted to work. 🙂