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In which Ben goes back to a Big Red Couch standard notion of “something on a spaceship”, despite Craig having taken the approach of deliberately NOT doing something set on a spaceship.
Not only is the ship fractured, but so is the crew, so turned against each other that they can’t save themselves. If you can just get these knuckleheads to work together, or even just get the hell out of your way, they’ll be rescued, the salvage prize is yours, and you’ll be set for life.
The crew are glad that help has shown up, and are keen to be rescued, but for some reason they’re not keen on doing the very things that would make that happen; Why?
An arcade lined with shops is fine to walk through, or even to hang out in and enjoy a cup of coffee; What if you found that you couldn’t leave?
Maybe you fell through the cracks and can see the monsters lurking outside.
Maybe you shouldn’t have belligerently declared that you’ll never leave while arguing with the Fae Lord of the Strand.
Or maybe breaking in at night to steal the fantastic items in the shops was just a really bad idea.
People trapped in a dimension-hopping shopping arcade, trying to trade with the folks outside for the things they need, hoping to one day make it home.
In The City, you can have every basic need taken care of … So long as you have the chip installed in your head. Somewhere outside the city is a place where the unchipped can live freely, however they want, and all you have to do is get there.
Somehow.
Elmo (Sesame Street)
Elmo Putney (Brush Strokes)
Cast Away (Movie)
Doom Patrol (TV)
Doom Patrol (Comic)
Flotsam RPG ( Kickstarter link, because there’s a bunch of information there. Also a preorder link ~ T. Jones )
Apocalypse World (RPG)
The Fades (TV)
The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher
Doctor Who
Are You Being Served?
Tales of the Floating Vagabond
Wraith: The Oblivion
The Simpsons
The Tracey Ullman Show
Chernobyl (TV)
Urchin (RPG)
The Tripods, by John Christopher
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Augmented Reality
Hostile Architecture
Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus!
Infinity Train
Fringeworthy ( Tri Tac Games )
Birmingham New Street Station ( Yeah, Craig got the name wrong. It’s amazing he doesn’t get lost more often. ~ T. Jones )
Shaper/Mechanist Universe, by Bruce Sterling
Shadowrun ( Catalyst Game Labs )
Shadowrun ( Wikipedia )
RPGnet Forums
Black Bug Room ( WARNING: TV Tropes Link – It may consume hours of your life ~ T. Jones )
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Cutie Mark Crusaders
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Little Witch Academia
The Authority
Stormwatch
Jack Hawksmoor
For those interested in my source for the “Everything is alive on this spaceship” idea, here’s a link to a Goodreads page on Ken MacLeod’s _The Corporation Wars_.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26216054-dissidence