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Popular Culture in the PA world.; Some ideas.
Topic Started: Aug 10 2008, 08:29 PM (328 Views)
mattblackgod
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One of my favorite things about Post Apocalypitca is what you can do and get away with.

If you stumble on some modern popular culture icon you can use it terrain. Such as this by Area23:
Area23's Ronald

I am sure we have all seen the pics from Planet of the Apes with the head of the statue of liberty?

What about other effects of popular culture? What about a cult that worships the Mc Donalds chain? They have no idea of what they are saying but responses to prayers could be "Do you want Fries with that?". Imagine the leader dressed as a clown with a mass of loonies chanting that (I have to admit to loving culties as you can have soooo much fun with them).

In my old Babylons Burning campagin I had one enclave based in local a football (soccer to some) staduim and as they where cops they took the name of one of the stands (the Kop). Over a peice of parkland another football (soccer) staduim survived. In it was a band of culties. They are called the Children of Goodness - a play on the name of the staduim. The clubs icons and nicknames got mixed into the cults pseudo-christian beleifs (St Gladys will return to give the rightous toffees of heaven. You cant get in without them!). The culties would hand out drug filled sweets to the survivors and encourage them to join (when they where not warring with the Kop over the park lands).

So what popular icons and culture would you like to prevert for your post apoc world?



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Ross
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The Surgeon General and his nurses, based on the character in Escape From L.A.

For those that haven't seen it, the character is a plastic surgeon and preforms skin/body part grafts to those that afford them. His nurses have been worked on so much their faces have no natural look, just plastic clownish like grimaces.
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v_lazy_dragon
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The Mortal engines series has some great things on this fron - like the 'eye-pod' a music that can store all of the owlrds music, or the tiny cars inhabited by a midget master race (toy cars). Or how about the US of A? Discovered by Christopher Colombo, the great explorer detective, in 1923?
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mattblackgod
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One of the great things about PA is the amount of loonies you will have from the horrors & hardships of life, substence abuse and inbreeding. Add a large dollop of innocence and naivety amd you are set.

You could mix in a whole lot of advertising. The folks of the community might go off looking for artifacts of the old times such as the can of mystical spray that will attract the ladies, the beer that guarentees perfection, shampoo that gives orgasms and many more. All it takes is for you to study a magazine or bill boards - remove you cynical mind and take it literally. :D

Imagine a road hero/warrior looking for a old car of a certain make as "its the drive of his life!". Or some werid perv for that matter. ;) :D



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Ross
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I'm gonna do the cult that's waiting Mr Squiggle to come down and draw them a map to paradise!! But these guys are switched on, they know that once he's drawn them the map that it is of course..... upside down :D
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