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Author Topic: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)  (Read 5693 times)

Offline Andrew May

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Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« on: October 15, 2013, 10:20:40 AM »

http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/

Over the last few months many of you will have followed my miniatures project here and over on Kickstarter. Over that time I've been musing over and planning out the background story and game world for my ongoing project. To compliment the miniatures that I have sculpted I wanted to create a new setting, separate from traditional Victorian Scifi and still different from the newer and established steampunk settings. So with the the concepts and story all set out I decided to approach a professional writer to coalesce my imaginings into a solid backstory. Mark Latham has done a marvellous job for translating my ideas, approaching the subject matter with great enthusiasm. I'll be publishing the backstory over the next week starting today. I hope everyone that decides to follow it enjoys what we have created. The next stage is the continued development and playtesting of the Steam and Aether ruleset, if you want to stay abreast of what I've got coming then please follow the blog and I'll keep you all updated.

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In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, peace descended on a troubled Europe for the first time in living memory. It was an age of reason, of enlightenment, and progress. An age where the ingenuity of mankind scaled heights previously unimagined. And yet, it was not science or intellect, nor even conquest that was to change the world. It was the discovery of something older and far more mysterious than anything humanity could have dreamt; something that had lain dormant since the dawn of time…


Offline Dewbakuk

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2013, 10:43:06 AM »
I look forward to reading it.
So many projects..... so little time.......

Offline zbyshko

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2013, 12:43:18 PM »
I look forward to reading it.

I second that.
\"I drank WHAT!?!\" - Socrates

Offline Andrew May

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2013, 12:51:13 PM »
The first instalment is already up.  ;)

Offline Dewbakuk

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2013, 01:52:37 PM »
Interweb trickery! That wasn't there earlier  ;)

Offline Mason

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2013, 01:55:36 PM »
Will certainly have a butchers later, mate.
 :D


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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2013, 06:00:51 AM »

Excellent work!  :-* :-*

Offline Andrew May

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2013, 09:39:08 AM »
Thanks fellows. Part two up now, due to blog format you'll have to scroll down to get part 1 if you've not read it yet.

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Though France controlled all commerce in Aetheric goods across Europe, the benefits for all could not be denied, and many common people in Unified Prussia and even Britain reaped the rewards of the new age of invention......

Offline Conquistador

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2013, 11:23:27 AM »
Wow, no one at the time saw the rot inherent in the ease of the process?  No one saw there would be a karmic "price to pay" for such (literally) a power grab?

Humans were still fallen creatures.  We always dislike the powerful and successful, always have throughout recorded history.  Rivalries and hatreds can be buried and (for a  while) controlled but never completely erased despite our best efforts.

Looking forward to when the fractures start becoming evident and the results of that.

Gracias,

Glenn
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Offline Blodwin

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2013, 07:47:30 PM »
Excellent - helps shorten the train commute home - looking forward to the coming instalments
Boldwin

Offline Andrew May

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2013, 10:02:23 AM »
Here you go.....
Part 3
http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/
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What the Consulate scientists were working on in the lowest, most secure levels of the extraterrestrial complex will perhaps never be fully understood. However, the pinnacle of their work was surely the invention of portal technology—the ability to transport a living person from one place to another almost instantaneously, by passing through a portal of pure Terrestrial Aether.......

Offline AndrewBeasley

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2013, 08:32:23 PM »
Turning out to be a great background.

Now how do we folk in the UK get over the water?  Deep submersibles, take to the air or go along way North or South?

Offline Dewbakuk

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #12 on: October 17, 2013, 08:36:35 PM »
We don't it's a wasteland, we go civilise America :)

Offline Andrew May

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #13 on: October 17, 2013, 08:56:56 PM »
America is suspiciously quiet for now. I'm staying around Eurasia in the current setting. UK stays in contact over the oceans with its colonies, more to come tomorrow.  8)

Offline Andrew May

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Re: Steam and Aether setting revealed. (Meridian Miniatures)
« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2013, 09:20:21 AM »
And here's Part 4
http://steamandaether.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/part-4.html
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The cosmic strife persisted for almost two decades, remaining mercifully confined to France and the surrounding environs until one day in 1867, quite suddenly, the storms calmed. The sun rose into a blue sky for what seemed to be the first time in eons, and the world held its breath. No-one knew what had befallen France and its people. No-one knew what the other nations had been up to during the time of isolation. But the race was on to find out.....

 

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