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aberrantangelsBack to the Inspiration Age!
Neither the Storyteller nor the d20 version of Adventure! says if Æon ever found who was responsible. The most important enemy the Society'd managed to accumulate in its month-and-change of existence was Baron Saturday, so he's a major candidate. On the other hand, Dr. Zorbo might have already started carrying over his vendetta against Danger Ace onto Stefokowski's colleagues. (I actually think the latter is a little more likely, more compatible with Jackson Harley's presented image as a Robin Hood of the Caribbean.)
And I just realized, I didn't talk about Manfred von Zorbo's beliefs and goals in that earlier entry that mentioned him. Having grown up on estates in the Schwarzwald, he didn't want to see the Earth paved over, as an expanding population seemed to dictate would eventually happen. One of his proposed solutions was the construction of "tenements that could house the populations of small cities" (to quote the Adventure! rulebook) — arcologies, years before Paolo Soleri coined the concept.
Then Zorbo went to London, invited to witness Dr Sir Calvin Hammersmith's now-infamous demonstration of the Telluric Engine. His mind was unhinged by the psychic awakening of his Inspiration, and his proposed "solutions to the problems of overpopulation and over-industrialization" became ever more radical and deranged. In one tract, he proposed abandoning the surface of the Earth altogether, letting it go green again while humans lived in floating cities ballooned aloft. He gave this screed a clarion call for a title: "Menschheit! Zum Himmel!" (Mankind! To the sky!) When his armada of airships was ready to go, this became a battle cry.
(In a Trinity Universe/World of Darkness blend, it strikes me as plausible that Dr. Zorbo takes the place of "Czar Vargo", the Etherite whose zeppelin armada appeared over the battlefields of France to call an end to the Great War. Perhaps Vargo was a fictional character in such a universe, a blend of Zorbo and Ivan "the Czar" Stayansky.)
1923
[Adventure!] An explosion rocks Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, destroying the main floor of Mercer Manor.
Neither the Storyteller nor the d20 version of Adventure! says if Æon ever found who was responsible. The most important enemy the Society'd managed to accumulate in its month-and-change of existence was Baron Saturday, so he's a major candidate. On the other hand, Dr. Zorbo might have already started carrying over his vendetta against Danger Ace onto Stefokowski's colleagues. (I actually think the latter is a little more likely, more compatible with Jackson Harley's presented image as a Robin Hood of the Caribbean.)
And I just realized, I didn't talk about Manfred von Zorbo's beliefs and goals in that earlier entry that mentioned him. Having grown up on estates in the Schwarzwald, he didn't want to see the Earth paved over, as an expanding population seemed to dictate would eventually happen. One of his proposed solutions was the construction of "tenements that could house the populations of small cities" (to quote the Adventure! rulebook) — arcologies, years before Paolo Soleri coined the concept.
Then Zorbo went to London, invited to witness Dr Sir Calvin Hammersmith's now-infamous demonstration of the Telluric Engine. His mind was unhinged by the psychic awakening of his Inspiration, and his proposed "solutions to the problems of overpopulation and over-industrialization" became ever more radical and deranged. In one tract, he proposed abandoning the surface of the Earth altogether, letting it go green again while humans lived in floating cities ballooned aloft. He gave this screed a clarion call for a title: "Menschheit! Zum Himmel!" (Mankind! To the sky!) When his armada of airships was ready to go, this became a battle cry.
(In a Trinity Universe/World of Darkness blend, it strikes me as plausible that Dr. Zorbo takes the place of "Czar Vargo", the Etherite whose zeppelin armada appeared over the battlefields of France to call an end to the Great War. Perhaps Vargo was a fictional character in such a universe, a blend of Zorbo and Ivan "the Czar" Stayansky.)
