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[bryant]

The next three Dear Brothers are all writeups from one session. Only one of them is by Reese. Rob did the session in three parts. The first was a sideways trip to a pulp world in which we played Doc Lully’s Pulp Heros and explored the Hollow Earth; the second was a flashback to 1968, during which we played the Silver Age Knights of the Road, kin to the Merry Pranksters. The final segment was our usual characters, albeit in a situation they didn’t remember after the fact.

I’ve ambitiously adopted two new voices for the purpose of recounting the first two sessions. If they work half as well as Reese’s voice, I’ll be very pleased.

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[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Superb. Well worth the wait.

Oh, and Reese's letter was the 666th message in my UnknownUSA folder. Eeeexcellent. See you in two weeks. :)

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I’ve ambitiously adopted two new voices for the purpose of recounting the first two sessions. If they work half as well as Reese’s voice, I’ll be very pleased.

Reese is a hard act to follow, but Chase and Mordecai work great. For me, Chase is the most impressive achievement. Not that the Mordecai letter isn't hella fun, but Pulp's a pretty easy voice for us geeks to conjure up - it's like the original geek Ur-language. The kind of half-baked late Beat / early Tom Wolfe bebop that Chase Foxe is doing is much less part of the idiom, but his letter is spot on. Excelsior.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the one thing I noticed is how positive Chase's writing is, and all I could think about was the bit in Fear and Loathing where HST is talking about how great the late 60s were and how they were a high water mark. I'd like to meet Chase R. Foxe in 1972, that's for sure... maybe he did a full-immersion story on the Suicide Kings (or, indeed, Las Vegas) that the PCs could come across in passing and get some important clues. :)

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

That's a great passage about the "high water mark." And yeah, that optimism was part of that 60s mindset - on both sides. One thing you probably couldn't pick up from the letters, Mike, was that Bill Bryant 3's briefing to the MONARCH crypto-fascists about to change history and Bill Bryant 4's briefing to the flower power kids about to change history were exactly the same. Therein lies our cynical Gen-X message.

As for Chase Foxe, I actually do have an idea of at least one thing he got up to after 1968 - hopefully I can bring it in in our next session.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Therein lies our cynical Gen-X message.

There's that bisociation again. It's a killer. :) Seriously, though, I find it less cynical than good old-fashioned UA "You Did It" crossed with the whole Bryan bloodline weirdness. Those Bryans sure love to fight for their paradigms.

And yes, some more IC Chase Foxe would be awesome. It's the kind of stuff I could see Sue having on her massive bookshelves... subcultural anthropology.

[bryant]

Chase was definitely harder than Mordecai. I didn't want to write him as HST -- Tom Wolfe was definitely the referent point I was going for. But I was pretty pleased with how it worked out in the end, down to the sudden veer into sobriety. He's fighting off angst and not doing terribly well.

[bryant]

He was really fun to play. I'm not at all sure what his status was after the historical shift -- I've been assuming he got written out of history, but I could be wrong. Someday I'll have to write up his bibliography.