Fallen Jerusalem.
The atmosphere could be right… I’ve once read at some post they think it has already fallen.
Fallen Dublin? Quite similar in 2015 to Fallen London 1893 tbh. A lot of drugs, lot of revolutionaries, few churchmen and heavy immigration. The city would probably be poorer and far more population light than FL. Industry would be lighter and the mood, in general, more depressed.
I live in a university town in rural New England. I love my fellow citizens - mostly - but the Neath would tear us apart.
New England? The Lovecraftian elements would spike. Change names of everything to Arkham names. The University? Miskatonic. Boom- done.
[quote=Gonen]Fallen Jerusalem.
The atmosphere could be right… I’ve once read at some post they think it has already fallen.[/quote]
I would play that.
I currently live in the middle of nowhere suburbia, and I’m willing to bet no one even knows the name, so I’ll imagine my old cities instead.
Fallen San Francisco and Fallen Seoul.
San Francisco wouldn’t change except perhaps for the real estate prices.
There are many people from different walks of life, but if there’s anything a San Franciscan is good at, it’s adapting to the fast paced environment.
Fallen Seoul, same as San Francisco, but I’d expect that many of the populace would suffer fast, but others would certainly flourish. There are plenty of softies in Seoul–especially the richer districts–that would not be able to handle what the neath has in store.
edited by Haneul on 9/7/2015
I live in Indianapolis, but I believe that would be a very boring fallen city. I think the best fallen cities would be Rome or Rio de Janeiro.
Living in Beijing as a foreigner is already kind of like living in a Fallen City. Everything’s supposed to be run by an imposing centralized bureaucracy but to get anything done it feels like you need to go through a half dozen factions of unofficial operators and hustlers, the alcohol is all unfamiliar even if it’s made out of rice instead of mushrooms, and all the buildings are covered in inscrutable runes.
I live closest to Philadelphia, but I doubt anyone there would notice much changing if the city Fell–too much preoccupation with the current level of deterioration. :-(
No, for a proper successor to Fallen London you need a greater, larger city. I propose either Tokyo or New York. The idea of New York as the Sixth City strikes me as particularly adaptable to the FL story. Instead of New Newgate, the new visitor finds him/her/themselves in Bellevue, in a strait jacket. Relics of the Fifth City would be random letters, cut from the London Street Signs of FL. And New York’s subways would still exist, but now would be inhabited by Rubbery Men and…viler things. It could make a magnificent game along FL’s existing lines; call it “New York Below”, say.
Various people insist on calling it Lowered Manhattan, much to the chagrin of the other four boroughs.
I can’t think of what the Masters would want with Fallen Santa Cruz when San Francisco is so close by, but I’ll give it a try.
You’d have to squeeze the Bazaar to fit into Pacific Garden Mall, as the place is pretty crowded already. Pleasure Point would probably make for a good Veilgarden substitute, and zurfing would become a new pastime. Ocean Street and the Boardwalk remind me of Spite and the Tower of Chimes, respectively, with the wharf standing in for Wolfstack. Where I’m at in Capitola would probably be Ladybones’ Road (a bit of a police state over here). Live Oak would probably represent Watchmaker’s Hill, as Twin Lakes makes the area somewhat marshy. And Cabrillo and UCSC being merged into the University would make for some fun times, since they get along much better than Summerset and Benthic (I’ve had the pleasure of attending both of them). We’d have the Correspondance Department set up so fast you could cover it in a single storylet.
edited by MrUnderhill89 on 9/20/2015
I had the same thought. Especially if it was set after the 1929 stock market crash; Wall Street gets replaced by the Bazaar, Broadway gets to stand in for Veilgarden, Pinkerton Detectives would roam the streets in lieu of the Constables, etc. You could even say that the city fell to save Franklin Roosevelt from polio, like with the Empress’ Consort in London.
Ah, Fallen New York…
I like the idea of starting by breaking out of Bellevue; Rikers would do too, of course. Go to Greenwich Village to bump up your Persuasive a bit before hitting Broadway, or to Staten Island to touch up your Dangerous. The City University campuses would have to be rolled together if we don’t want to make the game world totally unwieldy. The Hudson, I guess, would be grafted onto the river that flows through Hell, and I can see the devils adding their embassy to all the others on the Upper East Side, or else working out of a particularly shiny office building in Midtown. The Clay and Rubbery Men would have their own enclaves in Queens soon enough.
If the Gracious Widow is still around, she probably works out of a small, poorly-lit noodle shop in Flushing. The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem, depending on the exact time period, might be living in a squat on the Lower East Side, where he continues collecting…interesting people. The Duchess and her cats share a spacious (and expensive) Upper West Side apartment.
Mr. Cups, or whatever he’s calling himself these days, is in charge of the Department of Sanitation, among other things. He’s relaxed the policy on mongo a bit. Mr. Fires obviously has the Fire Department reporting to him, and you don’t tangle with Mr. Pages’ NYPD any more than you would the current one.
There’s been much debate as to which Neathly critters are kosher, and how you can even tell. Rats, no. Rubbery Men, definitely not. But some of the others?
Of what now inhabits Central Park, as well as the subway tunnels, I dare not speak.
edited by AbermalsHelle on 9/28/2015
Fallen Calhoun Falls would be a lot like not fallen Calhoun Falls. Except perhaps, there’d be more crime. We would probably go to the country to raise Shadowy, the suburbs to raise Persuasive, bucknelly to raise Dangerous, and the Blue Hole to raise Watchful. You’d get your Whispered Hints from the Marketplace, and your Tales of Terror from the Town Square. But we pretty much already live underground anyway since not many people know we exist. LOL
Dayton Ohio.
We would see the sun only slightly less.
Our drug problem would grow more exotic but probably still be pretty much the same. Under corn would be become a thing. One can only imagine what larps would happen were death is temporary. . .
At least we can have an university that can out drink Benthic.
Basketball meet shroom hopping would be entertaining.
Oakwood would become a literal dome.
We would be taken to see if anyone would notice.
I’ll list more when I think of them.
Fallen Manila. I love this prompt!
After the initial chaos of the Church declaring the End-of-times, people would eventually realize it’s not so bad and settle down and carry on as before.
Political families would take the place of the different Factions. Our universities have always been the home of revolutionaries so no changes there. We would hold elections for our fave Master just because, though it wouldn’t really change anything we just really like elections. Mr. Pages would have to diversify into film and television. I feel like the Rubbery men would be a lot more accepted, we’re just a really accomodating society over-all:) We would have a lot more settlements across the various islands of the Unterzee since being an archipelago means we’re a naturally sea-faring people. Intramuros, the so-called Walled City, can host the Bazaar.
Also at least we wouldn’t have to deal with droughts and the monsoons anymore so thats a definite plus:D
Fallen Berkeley. Presumably a Beleaguered City Councilmember gave away the city for free so the civic-minded citizens would have more important officials to pester. The Revolution either erupts into protests immediately or gets derailed by New Age Bazaarines. The university immediately sets to work on a surface elevator and establishes an extremely high tuition for "out of Neath" students. Ten thousand people move to an obscure southern island where the temperatures fall in the range we consider suitable for human habitation, i.e. 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
edited by TheThirdPolice on 6/13/2016
Oh my… They tried, they tried, but as its motto goes, “fluctuat nec mergitur”: Paris cannot sink.
Fallen Melbourne - honestly, it’d probably bring all the worst in us out. The Bazaar would set up in the ruins of the casino, and we’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference. The trendy district du jour would be so far from the city centre that it would end up impaled on the Prickfinger Wastes or drowned in the zee. The preposterous skyscrapers would be smashed against the Roof and invaded by the Starved Men. The ferris wheel that never turns would become a nest of Sorrow-Spiders. At least the coffee would survive.
Fallen Brussels:
Mr. Apples assumes the new identity of Mr. Waffles while Mr. Pages adapts to the size of the comic industry he now controls by taking the name of “Mr Strips”, and gets infuriated when his introduction causes people to have uncontrollable fits of laughter.