Star Ranger4 Wrote:IOW, the way Nivens and Barnes initally wrote up Dreamworld, Ace?Do you mean:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Park
This was not the direct inspiration (I don't think I've seen that write-up), I'd got an idea for something like a "Feast of Beasts", or a Fen-friendly version of something like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight%21_Iczer_One
without real collateral damage. Godzilla is known better than Iczer, so that seemed far more likely to get a following. This is also about RPG-ing as spectacle, maybe the Fen equivalent of "Big Brother" if you want to be tacky. Then, there was the question of where you'd get the final competitors, so I put in the week-long VW tourney. You have to prove you're really good before you get on the Big Stage.
If you wanted to, you could have 'live' showing of the VR tourney on an outdoors big screen, say in the equivalent of Times Square NY, in the week before the Big Fight.
Unlike "Dream Park", this was supposed to be on a grand rather than an individually heroic scale, and the 'players' would be Kaiju, instead of holo-cloaked humans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju
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