Unlikely
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One would suppose that the sixth city is to be Paris. In Wilmot's End, Paris is a frequent topic of conversation: "It's always Paris." In the nonfate intro to July's exceptional story, contributing an echo to the musician rewards one with texts including "The sixth city. The fall of Paris." Of course, the prevalence of these clues brings suspicions as to their veracity.
Would anyone be able to predict the seventh city?
Also, the glimpses of Destiny provided on various festive occasions seem rather apocalyptic. Are we certain that the demise of Fallen London will not coincide with the demise of the cooperation between Bazaar, Masters, and Cities?
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7/2/2015
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Paris is the City of Love, of COURSE the Masters covet Paris.
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Marianne Anders
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7/2/2015
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Fallen Paris, or Paris Tombe?
i'm rather fond of the fantheorized Fallen Angeles? which was more just bounced around than actually written about, i think. the pun there, tho, is pretty spectacular.
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Raiseth Ascendant
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Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
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Tyrone
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1/17/2016
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Hopefully Detroit, since it'd be an improvement.
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Cuban Pete
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My pet theory for the Sixth City had always been Tokyo given Japan's rising economic power in the Twentieth Century, its title "Land of the Rising Sun" (a motif that likes to crop its head up in regards to Fallen Cities), and the threat of further atom bombs would have provided a perfect motive to sell the city. Furthermore, I had ruled out the European continent because the Bazaar's pattern of hopping continents with each transition.
Clearly I don't think like a traveling Bazaar.
Then again, assuming the Bazaar's attempt to steal Paris DOES go up in gun smoke, I suppose Tokyo could still be on the menu, although chances are they might go for a different European (or even American) city as well. There are plenty of desperate politicians in that era of World History who might be up for striking a Faustian deal, especially with World War brewing on the horizon.
I have little clue as to what the Seventh City would be, but I can only speculate that it might be something that would put the others to shame in terms of splendor. Possibly Jerusalem a major center of Religion and ongoing conflict, the perfect breeding ground for tales of tragedy? Something completely unanticipated like a bustling Lagos(Without Britain, would the Berlin Conference even happen)? The events in Paris further exemplify that the time line has derailed from our own (I mean, aside from the whole famous cities being bought by... whatever the Masters are).
Also? Its interesting to note that by 1908 Queen Victoria would have already died in our timeline. Could that be a factor in the City's unrest? Would Queen Vicky even be able to die given the fact that famous rulers from the other cities are still walking about?
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Lord Hoot
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I'd like the final city to be somewhere like Lagos in Nigeria. We haven't had a sub-saharan African fallen city yet. Lagos is a major metropolis, and perhaps would have grown even larger and more prosperous had the British Empire evaporated in the 19th century. It could have seized on the power vacuum in West Africa, and perhaps been spared the ravages of the conflict between the Anarchists and the Sequencers as it consumed the 'Neath and spilled over to the surface. Centuries later, when the apocalyptic wars of the 20th century are relegated to myth, would be the perfect time for the 'Neath and the Unterzee to be rediscovered.
Also Lagos is literally called 'Eko' in Yoruba. So the Eko Bazaar would be a thing.
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The Glass Boffin
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1/17/2016
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Kittenpox wrote:
Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
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Achtung Lorn Flukes!!
But the city should be sold to save a dying love? Hitler specialised in hate, who did he love accept himself?
Without wanting to derail the conversation much, I feel that I should point out that Adolf Hitler, despite all the atrocious things he's done, was still human. As uncomfortable a truth as that is, he wasn't some kind of infernal hate machine. He was just a man, with some pretty horrible views about how the world should be.
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I would like to add that recent findings show he was probably drugged out of his gourd by his private doctor. Upper and downers of all kinds, in a war where amphetamines were like candy for soldiers, allegedly on both sides. So Fallen Berlin doesn't sound like it will work that well.
Fallen Tokyo though? I can get behind that. Mainly because Japanese media and writers churn out some of the craziest and in-depth love stories. Practically all of their popular fiction seems to deal with love in some form (The greeks were great at classifying the dizzying kinds). And if you want a cultural tradition of bizarre eros to rival and exceed the Mycologene school??? Yup, Tokyo is your place.
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1/17/2016
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One thing that I think should be pointed out is London is the first Fall that would probably have a major effect on history. All the other cities haven't altered history all that much, as is evidenced by history remaining mostly the same right up until the Fall of London. However, now that the capital of the largest empire in the world is gone, we are seeing serious deviations from our history. It is doubtful that Hitler will ever rise to power in this universe, for example.
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1/17/2016
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As for the seventh city? So long as it's not 'Fallen Ibiza', I think we should be okay. :-p
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Yeah, Paris would be dieselpunk (one of the WWs, altho I really don't think they'd go the same with the loss of London navy/trade/The Empress' family. What would Russia's tsars be like w/o Victoria's hemophiliac genes? What would the sea lanes look like w/ London's purchasing power diverted underground to bizarre goods rather than typical Surface trade?)
Maybe Cyberpunk or Biopunk for #7, but again no idea which city. There doesn't seem to be a mandatory city lifespan - I guess each Fallen city lasts as long as it can produce unique love stories.
We do need some sort of war, however, even if it doesn't look exactly like WW1-2, because of love and heartbreak and drama.
& it would be possible, tho cruel, for Paris to be a red herring.
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7/2/2015
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Firstly, all the other cities are ruined, so won't fallen london have to fall to ruins before another city can join the neith? What would it take to cause the destruction of london? What betrayal caused the other cities to fall to ruin? Will the empress rise up and strike a blow against the masters in revenge, or will the revolutionaries somehow cause the agreement to end with the rebellion against the masters and the liberation of light?
There is no evidence to suggest that the denizens of all of the cities forced the Masters to leave them in ruin. The Fourth City did rise up and was destroyed, but this sounds more like an anomaly. Usually, from what I gather, the Bazaar just gets its fill of love stories and then, well, the subject matter of what happens next is not for the faint of heart.
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Secondly, WHEN would Paris fall? Does it still have to be when there are kings? Would just a representative government have enough absolute power to sell the very soul of the city to the Bazaar? Perhaps a group of "concerned citizens" and powerful merchants? Given the date it is "now" what's left that could trigger a dire enough need to sell Paris? One of the great wars? Could the city be that desperate to escape the bombing of WW2? Perhaps the city is sold to make France the hero of the war and win it in some mysterous way?
I think WW1 would be a more suitable period, as the 1910's would retain the noir theme that many Fallen London stories seem to touch upon. Still, WW2 presents the far more forceful reason for why a Parisian would make such a bargain - better the city fall to the Neath than to the Nazis. As for who would concede the city to the Masters? Well, it is uncertain how picky they are. Perhaps some up-jumped dignitary with an ailing lover could make the bargain, and then the Masters would install him as King/President/Prime Minister or some such leadership position to cement the bargain once it is in the Neath.
This topic struck me earlier today as interesting. Tell me, would anyone here be interested in "Fallen Paris", a sequel to Fallen London? Granted the tone would be different, far less Victorian. The technology would also have changed, more guns I imagine. Of course I don't think it will actually happen but, hey, you never know.
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Lady Sapho Byron
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1/16/2016
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A certain Ambition reveals that Masters are interested in Paris as the Sixth City, and as we learn in a certain other affair, some Masters are interested in a Sixth City sooner rather than later.
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Unlikely
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Ooh, I left out atompunk, didn't I? Cathodes
The dominant powers - that's what keeps bothering me. Isn't the balance of world powers completely different with London so far Below? I guess the Great Game's still going, though.
Does the Bazaar go for dominant powers (empires) or for those most likely to upset the status quo (Balkans, Japan)?
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TheD3rp
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1/16/2016
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Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
I really don't think the Masters would be interested in a pile of rubble.
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Charlotte_de_Witte
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Achtung Lorn Flukes!!
But the city should be sold to save a dying love? Hitler specialised in hate, who did he love accept himself?
Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
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Sara Hysaro
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1/16/2016
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Blondi?
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Tyrone wrote:
Hopefully Detroit, since it'd be an improvement.
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dov
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Kittenpox wrote:
As for the seventh city? So long as it's not 'Fallen Ibiza', I think we should be okay. :-p
Who knows? Maybe it will be Fallen Copacabana, and the love story that the Bazaar is after would be Lola's and Tony's... :-)
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Cotton Dee
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Fallen Angeles has my vote, for the irony of the Masters capturing a human story engine in the form of Hollywood. Also, the puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuns.
Cyberpunk Fallen Tokyo also has my vote, because it sounds wonderful.
Lastly, I'll throw in a vote for Fallen Rio, which would be exceptionally interesting.
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Anne Auclair
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Paris would be the most logical choice for the Masters to make, but destiny might have a different fate in store for it. I'm personally inclined to think that the Sixth City mentioned in a certain silvery destiny is actually 1920s or 1930s era New York. This on account of "the strangeness of its sharp-edged shadows." Sharp edged shadows...
I imagine Wall Street has an earth shattering crash, the country falls into depression, and the Masters step in and offer to bail everyone out provided the city be signed over to them. Knowing the Masters, they may very well have engineered said crash with that explicit purpose in mind. The Neath shall reverberate with Harlem jazz and the Devils will no longer be so cutting edge.
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the truthseeker wrote:
I'm leaning towards Los Angeles as the Seventh. It's literally named "the Entertainment capital of the World" for the (Delicious and Scandalous) Stories it generates.
if anything the contemporary era has taught us, we crave its news on everybody we want to hear stories from, and Humans are great at manufacturing Love Stories from "true" events the best (even if there somehow is nothing left of the original event when done as all movies teach us.)
Many of us know the disastrous events when Masters try to manufacture events to make stories; this is not a problem for (at the time in 1948, which may or may not need an adjustment depending on when the city falls,) the eight million stories in The Naked City (stop giggling Snow, this is a serious topic!)
I also agree that an American Seventh city is most likely (geographic removal makes the American timeline easier to insulate from the falls of London and Paris); however, I think that you are a bit off on the choice in Los Angeles. While Hollywood does certainly boast an impressive entertainment industry, that is largely because California gives filmmakers an idyllic setting for working the craft (sunny, consistent weather; more breathing room for studios than Eastern American cities). Put Los Angeles in the Neath and it loses what makes it so powerful in storytelling: its resources.
I would instead propose New York as the ideal candidate. First, it makes a better "seat of empire" than Washington D.C. It is home to Wall Street and the United Nations, placing it in a position of prominence among the world's cities. Second, it is arguably the capital of American culture. Hollywood may make use of Los Angeles, but New York makes an appearance far more in film. The city is the muse of artists. Broadway continues to shape theater, America's major television networks make New York their home, fashion professionals flock there, jazz and hip hop were centered there. New York doesn't simply produce stories: it is one. The Masters shouldn't want a city full of people who produce stories. For their final city they should pick a city that continues to generate stories, that captivates, that is itself a character. And think about how New York can conform to just about any -punk style you can think of. So I think if the Masters turn to America, The City that Never Sleeps will be their choice in story engine.
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TheThirdPolice
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This passage about cathodes and shadows begins "When the Sixth City falls, I will be safe in Parabola." It's a little ambiguous whether you're peeking through at the Sixth City as it falls, wandering around a Parabola that's taken on some Sixy aspects, or even looking at the newly arrived Seventh. The sharp-edged shadows could just be from the strange not-light of Parabola.
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Anne Auclair
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No, it's not really ambiguous at all. Your character is in London and either imagining or having a premonition of themselves walking the streets of the Sixth City sometime after it falls. And there's good reason to believe that your character knows exactly what the Sixth City looks like.
It's the identity of said city that is ambiguous, given the sparse details your character chooses to convey. But "sharp edged shadows" kind of screams New York to me.
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Anne Auclair wrote:
No, it's not really ambiguous at all. Your character is in London and either imagining or having a premonition of themselves walking the streets of the Sixth City sometime after it falls. And there's good reason to believe that your character knows exactly what the Sixth City looks like.
It's the identity of said city that is ambiguous, given the sparse details your character chooses to convey. But "sharp edged shadows" kind of screams New York to me.
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I think New York would be a *fabulous* choice for the Sixth City. It already has an underground level. It has a medical institution that included (and may include again) a mental hospital--Bellevue. I'd call the game "New York Below" and the new player would begin the game, in a strait-jacket, in Bellevue.
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TheThirdPolice
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So er I was exhausted when I wrote that last post and somehow interpreted "fall" to mean the fallen Sixth City breaking apart to make room for the next one. You're completely correct.
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Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Hm. Maybe so, but Fallen London now hosts many sinfully interested in Prisoner's Honey ( which sounds like some sort of magical opium ), so why not LSDs that literally enable you to resolve conflicts via dreamfighting? Definitely not family-friendly, but I never actually think of possibility of another Fallen game seriously.
Fallen Berlin just sounds so darn awesome z
True... imagine, a world where the Weimar republic did not morph into Nazi Germany. While I can't find a lot of blatant sources, again and again I find it referenced as being "decadent". What is Fallen London without its decadence? Fallen Berlin...
I still like Fallen Tokyo for 7th. Although I wonder what relics of the 5th and 6th would look like? We have the coins, we have the tablets, we have the cinnabar beads and granite idols, and we have the horse-heads.
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The Glass Boffin wrote:
Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Hm. Maybe so, but Fallen London now hosts many sinfully interested in Prisoner's Honey ( which sounds like some sort of magical opium ), so why not LSDs that literally enable you to resolve conflicts via dreamfighting? Definitely not family-friendly, but I never actually think of possibility of another Fallen game seriously.
Fallen Berlin just sounds so darn awesome z
True... imagine, a world where the Weimar republic did not morph into Nazi Germany. While I can't find a lot of blatant sources, again and again I find it referenced as being "decadent". What is Fallen London without its decadence? Fallen Berlin...
I say that this production shows it would have been impossible to remove Decadence from Berlin 
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It's only 2016. I doubt in our own time we have enough information to know who the seventh city is, since that history may not have been written, yet.
Unless the seventh city is abducted very quickly after the sixth, which I would hope is not the case.
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South-Sea Rutherby wrote:
It's only 2016. I doubt in our own time we have enough information to know who the seventh city is, since that history may not have been written, yet.
Unless the seventh city is abducted very quickly after the sixth, which I would hope is not the case.
Yeah, it could be based in the flying-car future city time of The Jetsons which was the very far-off future date of 2062...yes, you are hearing my eyes roll!
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Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
Achtung Lorn Flukes!!
But the city should be sold to save a dying love? Hitler specialised in hate, who did he love accept himself?
Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
Now now, even Monsters sometime need more than a Mirror and a Locked Cellar...err, Bunker. In the case of the one with human appearance in Germany, he had Eva Braun.
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Fallen Angeles has my vote, for the irony of the Masters capturing a human story engine in the form of Hollywood. Also, the puuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuns.
Cyberpunk Fallen Tokyo also has my vote, because it sounds wonderful.
Lastly, I'll throw in a vote for Fallen Rio, which would be exceptionally interesting.
I'm leaning towards Los Angeles as the Seventh. It's literally named "the Entertainment capital of the World" for the (Delicious and Scandalous) Stories it generates.
if anything the contemporary era has taught us, we crave its news on everybody we want to hear stories from, and Humans are great at manufacturing Love Stories from "true" events the best (even if there somehow is nothing left of the original event when done as all movies teach us.)
Many of us know the disastrous events when Masters try to manufacture events to make stories; this is not a problem for (at the time in 1948, which may or may not need an adjustment depending on when the city falls,) the eight million stories in The Naked City (stop giggling Snow, this is a serious topic!)
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Raiseth Ascendant wrote:
Okay, that will definitely not happen, but imagine this. 1945, the Allies are winning the war, and what the hell does Hitler do? He sells Berlin to the Masters! Wacky Nazi science, noir darker than any noir, crazy fascist government, revolutionaries represented by some spy cell stuck in Berlin when he fell, and dragons made from some sort of candy! Horrendous, terrifying, delicious, lovely!
Charlotte_de_Witte wrote:
Achtung Lorn Flukes!!
But the city should be sold to save a dying love? Hitler specialised in hate, who did he love accept himself?
Without wanting to derail the conversation much, I feel that I should point out that Adolf Hitler, despite all the atrocious things he's done, was still human. As uncomfortable a truth as that is, he wasn't some kind of infernal hate machine. He was just a man, with some pretty horrible views about how the world should be.
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dov wrote:
Kittenpox wrote:
As for the seventh city? So long as it's not 'Fallen Ibiza', I think we should be okay. :-p
Who knows? Maybe it will be Fallen Copacabana, and the love story that the Bazaar is after would be Lola's and Tony's... :-)
Alas, "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." - because apparently being an Aussie means I live in Narnia. -_-
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Does love for the idea counts? Or for the Third Reich or whatever?
That would certainly broaden the concept of love... Still, I see how it wouldn't work probably.
As for the pile of rubble... The Silver Tree profoundly shows us Karakorum was taken right in the middle of invasion of the city like nobody's business. Have anyone read Vertigo's Sandman? There was one issue the ruler of one Arabic city sold the dream of its height of power, and it was reduced to a hellhole shortly after. I always thought there was something between this and literal dragging below when Cities Fell.
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Depends what happenend to the former British Empire imo: either the French, the Dutch etc. took over British colonies, in which case I consider the world hasn't changed much (the basic structure stayed the same, just with one less player) or decolonisation started way earlier than in our universe, with nationalists taking advantage of post-Fall chaos. Are there hints about this situation in the game? I'm terrible at this.
I think the fact that the Bazaar goes for dominant powers is just a corollary of its goal. It's basically looking to acquire the biggest possible RNG at any given time, so it needs a heavily populated city with huge traffic (commerce, immigration etc.) for efficient story generation. I doubt the consequences on the Surface are of any interest to it.
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1/16/2016
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Ah, sorry I wasn't specific. I do imply Berlin to be the Seventh City.
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metasynthie
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7/1/2015
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Well, there's a church up NORTH that believes the seventh city will never fall, but they're a bit fanatical.
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metasynthie
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7/2/2015
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Worth noting that one of the Destinies mentions that the Sixth City has "cathode shadows dancing on the ceiling" -- which sounds like 20th century television/monitor technology, but could be an earlier *-punk popularization of anything with vacuum tubes, hot cathodes, etc. Of course, not all the Destinies might come to pass.
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Kittenpox
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7/2/2015
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MidnightVoyager wrote:
Paris is the City of Love, of COURSE the Masters covet Paris.
I'm surprised I hadn't considered that sooner! (Brilliant, and hidden in plain sight.)
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Ben
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7/2/2015
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Cyberpunk fallen Toyko, the 7th city...
It has an unusual taste... I like it.
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