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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:39 am
by Blasted
I'm loving the chapter, but in the New York section I'm a little queasy about having _actual_ businesses and people named. I'd imagine some of them would become a little uptight about being described in conjunction with various denizens of the night. Even if the the actual description is complementary, describing the clientele as literal vampires is something that ends up in court for defamation. Even if the literature is demonstrably fiction.
And yeah, this is a small change publication, it's fiction, etc. etc. but it's not something that I would want to risk.
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 5:55 am
by Prak
P*Ong is now closed, or so the internet tells me. Mr. Wing's Antiques is purely a name drop from Gremlins. The description of the past of the Hot Lap Dance Club is pretty much 100% fact, with the only possible differences being the use of the term "paramilitary" and ascribing motives to the police commissioner*. It seriously was run by high powered lawyers and political activists.
*I'm not calling Frank out, I'm confessing actual ignorance on my part on those parts.
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 6:17 am
by Blasted
They've both closed down (AFAICT), but Pichet Ong is a real chef, who still operates a business. But that the business has closed down doesn't stop it being started again and it doesn't protect you from frivolous lawsuits.
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:42 am
by Lokathor
I would also lean towards sticking to only fictional names for people and businesses within at least the past 50 years or so.
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:58 am
by Username17
Good point on Ong. Swapped out for Pearl from Blade and Phoebe from Friends.
The Blood Knights are still "dread." The use of dread as an adjective would be kind of old fashioned if it weren't for Dread Pirate Roberts, but the Blood Knights are about as old fashioned as they come.
Typos corrected. Thanks guys.
-Username17
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:46 pm
by CatharzGodfoot
Prak_Anima wrote:I now kind of want to troll anti-climate change fundies by claiming that ancient demons are imprisoned in the ice and we must do everything we can to stop the melting of the caps, lest Abramileth The Destroyer be let loose and bring the End Times.
It wouldn't work. They
want the end times.
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:23 am
by Ikeren
Frank Slide. On April 29th, 1903, 82 million tonnes of Turtle Mountain fell onto the mining town of Frank in Canada's Northwest Territories (now the province of Alberta). This killed 84 people in an instant and left the entire area a field of barren, jagged stones. The railroad and the highway both go through the area of desolation, but no one and nothing lives there to this day. Lingering long after dark is ill-advised, as an uncontrolled burst of Orphic power erupts there at 4:10 in the morning for several minutes every Wednesday. Bodies in the area when that happens rise as Zombies.
I've worked here and can confirm that 100% of this is true, including the orphic power and zombies.
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:48 am
by Midnight_v
Ikeren wrote:Frank Slide. On April 29th, 1903, 82 million tonnes of Turtle Mountain fell onto the mining town of Frank in Canada's Northwest Territories (now the province of Alberta). This killed 84 people in an instant and left the entire area a field of barren, jagged stones. The railroad and the highway both go through the area of desolation, but no one and nothing lives there to this day. Lingering long after dark is ill-advised, as an uncontrolled burst of Orphic power erupts there at 4:10 in the morning for several minutes every Wednesday. Bodies in the area when that happens rise as Zombies.
I've worked here and can confirm that 100% of this is true, including the orphic power and zombies.
Hahahaha! Awesome!