{Vicious} Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Well all know that the biggest source of inspiration for a A! serial is the pulp genre. But what about other genre's and other mediums? Do you get inspired by anything that doesn't exactly qualify as pulp. Personally , one of the most inspiring movies I have seen for A! is the anime flick "Spriggan". The film is a melting pot of insane fast pasted action , superhuman ( and sometimes supernatural) elements and exploration ; many of the elements that make Adventure! so great. The movie's plot is simple: " Arcam is a secret organization that studies and prevents relics from falling into the wrong hands. Arcam recently found Noah's Ark , but the US goverment's secret Mechanized Corps wants it for their own agenda.To defend the relic , Arcam uses it's top agents the "Spriggan ,a group of "altered humans" to defend the powerful item . Now the Spriggan's main man , Yu Ominae must battle to save humanity from a mad man. Spriggan is a modern sci-fi action flick, like I said before it is not to deep in story line , but the mix of stylish violence and superhuman powers really inspires when composing a great action sequence for Adventure! Vicious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 It's one of the better manga's out there, I'm just getting sick of all the biblical stuff they keep throwing into the stories, and as for him catching that falchun... sorry went into my rant phase, the good thing about spriggan is that it's a fresh idea and unlike alot of manga's/anime's it doesn't have any sex/rape/bestiality, just action and some weird ideas that we come to expect from the Japanese cartoon sweatshops.By the way welcome abourd {Vicious} ::smiley5 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagheap Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Dude, I know this is a bit off topic, but I totally built a Nihonjin Superior character based on the main character from Spriggan...problem is I did such a good job I don't think I'll ever be allowed to play him.-Slag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{Vicious} Posted May 15, 2003 Author Share Posted May 15, 2003 Well I think Yu is a good example of a Stalwart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Rotwang! Posted May 15, 2003 Share Posted May 15, 2003 Comics -- everything from DC's Terminal City to Mighty Marvel's own Moon Knight. Remember how he went to some back-arse-water South American country and fought off a guy who was harvesting opium and turning people into zombies?Okay, I didn't thnk so. But he did.TV -- "MacGuyver" is on TV Land every night. If that doesn't give you an idea or two per episode...Literature -- Track down some Robert Erwin Howard and some Howard Phillips Lovecraft at the very least, and tell me if the former's "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" and the later's "The Horror At Red Hook" don't fire off a few pulp cyllinders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumbleweed Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Kung Fu movies.Really. Granted, it may be a little more suited for, say, Feng Shui (which I'll someday be running an all-out chronicle of, if I'm lucky) but there's still a lot to be had there. Flicks like 'Iron Monkey' or 'Once Upon a Time in China' are great if you wanna run a chronicle in the east- especially if there's a certain Dragon-type fellow poking his nose in...In more modern fare, the 'Operation Condor' films are absolutely wonderful, with Jackie chan as a strange mix of James bond and Indiana Jones, hot-rodding across the globe, fighting cultists and Nazis and lots of other folks. Very fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfPotts Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Literature -- Track down some Robert Erwin Howard and some Howard Phillips Lovecraft at the very least, and tell me if the former's \"The Fire of Asshurbanipal\" and the later's \"The Horror At Red Hook\" don't fire off a few pulp cyllinders.Now that'd be because Howard & Lovecraft were pulp writers then, wouldn't it? ::confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Rotwang! Posted May 18, 2003 Share Posted May 18, 2003 Now that'd be because Howard & Lovecraft were pulp writers then, wouldn't it? ::confused Indeed! That was my hurried effort at saying "Don't forget the written stuff".I was running late for work.Anyway, there are a couple of points that I wanted to make with that statement. One was the aforementioned (check out the writ); the other was this:While those two stories are, indeed, written in the pulp/weird fiction era BY pulp/weird fiction authors of great pulp/weird fiction renown, they're both rather different and yet very similar. Exotic locales, capable men daunted, danger abounds, scary stuff happens. Sure, one's about tomb-robbers in Egypt (I think) and the other's about a guy investigating cult-related kidnappings, but they both share those pulp tropes.So!Look for those pulp tropes...and there, inspiration shalt thou find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen_Seraph Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 how about this for non pulp then.......The Simpsonsyou have Homer, an int 1 stalwart.Proffessor Frink is a mad scientistMr Burns is another Stalwart with wealth beyond averace, influence 6.Marge, the Will 10 mundane....and the list goes on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finbar Posted May 19, 2003 Share Posted May 19, 2003 Although that explains so much....AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!FR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen_Seraph Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Okay, another, yet slightly less surreal non pulp inspiration could be the film Unbreakable. Bruce plays a stalwart with situational awareness, body of bronze and possibly high inspirtation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayre el KaBeer Posted May 20, 2003 Share Posted May 20, 2003 Hehe I made a yet to be played aberrant character based on unbreakable, it worked out well points wise and he even has his nemesis Elijah Price A.K.A Mr. Glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{Vicious} Posted May 23, 2003 Author Share Posted May 23, 2003 A source of atmospheric inspiration for me is the movie "Road to Perdition". It has nothing to do with pulp , or with supernatural powers , but it really lets you know what the world that surrounds the players feels like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoenix Posted May 25, 2003 Share Posted May 25, 2003 That was an excellent movie, not too far under Casablanca in my book. Among the extremely cool characters was Frank Nitti. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Ben Posted June 4, 2003 Share Posted June 4, 2003 If you can track it down, there was a series of Shadow comics put out by DC in the '90s called 'The Shadow Strikes!' which, had a lot of other 1930s stuff tied to the pulp elements of the Shadow and his agents. There's stuff about Hollywood, the Depresion, jazz, world politics and so on. There are guest apperances from people as diverse as Frank Nitti, Groucho Marx and Mao Zedong. There are unnamed but obvious guest stars from newspaper comic strips of the era. At one point, the Shadow meets a man called 'Grover Mills', (who is very clearly based on Orson Welles) who is the star of a 'Shadow' radio serial! All in all, it has some great ways to add some non-pulp elements to a pulp story, without distracting from the biffo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khj94 Posted July 23, 2003 Share Posted July 23, 2003 As I have suggested on the White Wolf Forum, I find reality to be the best source for inspiration and story ideas. Look into your own city or town's history. No matter where you live, it took great people, willfull visionaries to build the foundations of what you call home. Use that. Found out what was going on in the 1920's. You might be surprised with what you find.Another inspiration for 1920's Adventure stories is Egypt. Egyptology was very big during that time. Hell, I remember reading about these crazy fools thinking they could capture the power of the ancients by consuming mummy flesh. No ****. Actually, all they did after was vomit and ****.If those two ideas seem too gauche, how about catching any of those old In Search of.. episodes hosted by Leonard Nimoy. I mention them because I'm currently working on a Trinity/Adventure Story centered in the Bermuda Triangle. Another source I could recommend is GURPS, specifically the Old West, Places of Mystery and Warehouse 23 supplement books. If I had more time and was sitting home, I'm sure I could give more sources. Again, in my opinion, reality is your best source.Kurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlequin Posted July 27, 2003 Share Posted July 27, 2003 heya khj94, welcome to eon. happy posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorpion Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 How about "The Green Mile"John Coffee exhibited the "Touch of Life" knack - in a modified form, and was able to pass on, or imbue someone with the "Optimised Metabolism" Knack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The History Follower Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 I suggest checking out the comic Ruse. That has a victiorian setting but is very adventure like with its characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finbar Posted August 3, 2003 Share Posted August 3, 2003 New to USA Network...Peacemakers! Daredevils in the Old West!FR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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