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[bryant]

Monday Mashup number 25 is late; I just noticed that I hadn’t posted it from last night. Ooops. Well, here you go anyhow.

Today’s ingredient is the musical Chicago. I’m assuming the Catherine-Zeta Jones version, but any version is good. It’s glitz, it’s glamour, it’s crime, it’s the desirability of fame. In particular that last. The musical aspect is certainly optional, and when I say “optional” I mean “I’ll be really impressed if anyone manages to work it in.”

Kitchen Stadium is open. Start your mashups.

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[that-cad.livejournal.com]

Bryant. Dude. Where do you come up with this stuff? And why don't you ever run any of it? You're a fucking genius, man! I want you to plan my wedding (not that I'm getting married anytime soon, but still)!

Give Em The Old Razzle Dazzle...

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

Excellent as always. It's always interesting to me what elements of the mashee you decide to use and what you throw away. You're right of course that Chicago is about glitz, glamour, the quest for fame. But if you described that Shadowrun game to me, I wouldn't say "Oh, so it's Shadowrun meets Chicago!"

So unlike you I'm going to go obvious and superficial: For me, Chicago is about, you know, Chicago. And 1920s gun molls and vaudeville floozies, "oh yes oh yes oh yes they both reached for the gun the gun," Queen Latifah vamping "When You're Good To Mama", and all that jazz.

Which all adds up to one thing: Call of Cthulhu, baby.

Velma and Roxie are still nightclub floozies, but they're also duelling cultist PCs committing ritual murders for unspeakable eldritch gods. Richard Gere is, as I've always suspected, Nyarlathotep. And the musical numbers - which, in the movie version at least, are always presented as fantasy sequences - are fever dreams by which the PCs struggle to preserve their crumbling sanity. To prevent SAN loss from all the atrocities and forbidden knowledge they are accruing, the PCs must weave the tenebrous tentacles of the Elder Things into fanciful musical numbers and Bob Fosse dance sequences.

Now then. Mashup #26, Brant's wedding...

Re: Give Em The Old Razzle Dazzle...

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, my hypothetical would make a good mashup, wouldn't it? Maybe I should put some thought into that.

Re: Give Em The Old Razzle Dazzle...

[that-cad.livejournal.com]

Er...my hypothetical wedding, that is to say. Stupid brain worms.

[head58.livejournal.com]

I'd use F.A.T.A.L.