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Adventure!
Ten-Cent Tales!
-Chicago
An open fiction proposal by Bard - an open invite for contributors!
It's the eve of 1926 and the Aeon Society for Gentlemen is holding its yearly masquerade ball! But beneath the veneer of sophistication, evil still lurks in the hearts of men and threatens the very foundations of the city that Aeon holds dear. For indeed there is evil afoot in Chicago, an evil from the Orient that has slowly worked it's way into the city's underworld. An evil that is...ubiquitous.
Ten-Cent Tales is an anthology of Adventure! stories written by a variety of authors and published through EON. The general layout of the book is to be similar to the standard White Wolf anthology novels, most notably Truth Until Paradox, the Mage anthology. The front cover should be a suitably pulpish illustration, maybe with Max Mercer and another member or two of the Aeon Society. A caption in Adventure! lettering should read across the top "Ten-Cent Tales!" with a little stylized picture of a 1920s dime below it, or maybe just a bubble with 10c written in it.
The main background event of the anthology is the Aeon Society's masquerade ball held for New Years Eve 1925. The best and brightest from all over the world have been invited, and the upper crust of Chicago society are readying themselves to be amazed, as the invitations they have been sent promise technological marvels by Professor Dixon, and astounding feats of entertainment by some of the world's greatest magicians, musicians, and the like.
The secondary background event of the anthology is Ubiquitous Dragon making a move on the Chicago underworld. His agents are around the city, as well as one of his duplicates (though the duplicate will probably never show up in any of the stories, though I may ask one writer, or maybe just myself, to do a story involving him).
Each story in the anthology should work chronologically to cumulate with the last story being the ball, or a climactic fight between the Aeon Society and the Dragon. Other stories are free to use little bits and pieces of the background story, but mainly each story is the writer's own. However in each there should be mentioned either the ball, or the mysterious orientals going about town (or perhaps a robbery comitted by a group of black clad masked men).
Ideally, the anthology should be between 7 and 14 stories long, each story being between 3,000 and 11,000 words. Each story should start with a picture appropriate to it on the lefthand page facing it (so all story's start on the right side of the book when printed double sided). I'd like to get each story from a different person, and I think we can probably round up enough people to pull it off. The stories should be written in a pulpish vein, and for further good shared world reference I'd say "Truth Until Paradox" and "Wild Cards" for seeing how to write shared world anthologies.
-Bard
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Developer: Bard
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