Prof. Everett Willoughby:
Did the show ever reference anything political or any events from history?
Not really... except that:
--I think I recall that the Collins family helped organize armed resistance to England during the Revolutionary war, and
--In the very old days before that Collinsport had at least one witch trial... (of course, it kept having them after people were supposed to have historically stopped having witch trials, too...)
That's it. That is the total references to anything in history-- or the events of the 20th century (which is now our history) that I can think of the show ever mentioning.
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I like the idea of being in a strange, anachronistic "mystical bubble". There is some contemporary technology (if we are playing the 1960s), but it doesn't play a crucial role in the game.
Yeah there are cars in Dark Shadows, though we seldom literally see one... there are phones... there are one or two radios... there are certainly automatic pistols, you can hardly open a spare drawer in Collinwood without finding some kind of handy murder weapon... but that's about it. The band posters in the young boy's room are actually the biggest hint that there's a modern world outside Collinsport.
The Blue Whale has a jukebox with a couple of jazzy little numbers, and the fashions are embarrasingly up to date, I suppose I'll add. But really, that's about it as far as awareness that one decade is not like another decade. If it weren't for the clothes, the hairstyles, and the way people talk, one would hardly be able to pin down one decade from another in a given century.
On another note, I say to all players: please fill out your character sheets if you haven't already. Many of you have not. If I somehow forgot to unlock anyone's sheet, let me know.
This message was last edited by the GM at 13:09, Sun 26 Nov 2017.
