Where Angels Fear
2 min readJan 29, 2021

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You forgot Near Orbit.

Also, you can run adventures, or even a whole campaign strand, using the Torg Cyberpapacy for inspiration — dump the Torg specific elements and introduce background machinations involving Jesuits … lots of intrigue … cybercathedrals to infiltrate on the parallel GodNet subnet nobody else knows exists.

You could even make it the basis for an entire campaign setting by pitting the cyberpapacy against the powers of evil in the Metropolis setting from Kult — supernatural beings are programs/AIs, their powers are manifestations of (sub)routines they employ, Metropolis is the GodNet by another name … we’ve all seen the Matrix movies, nobody should have any trouble rationalising the existence of it all.

There’s a serious amount of background material can be ripped from GW’s Dark Conspiracy too — and if you play a campaign based upon the Cyberpapacy/Kult combination, a lot of the X Files type material is usable as well.

The section The Cinematography of the City from City of Mist can be used as inspiration for how to create a noir atmosphere.

With a little work, adventures from CoM can be rewritten to suit a non-mystical/mythical world — e.g. the Killing Her Softly story can be re-written to make Martha’s skill/talent a Jazz/Blues version of Emotive Rock combined with a talent/tech for picking up on people’s psychoemotional state … and the reason(s) why people are dropping dead could be for any number of tawdry, mundane reasons rather than phantasmagorical.

For those who want to run something approaching a Gilliam Brazil type hi-tech but painfully bureaucratic sociopolitical environment … or even with the same kind of tech base somewhat advanced (think Gravity’s clunky moddies and daddies rather than Elon Musk’s slick Neuralink mesh) … a surprising amount of inspiration for adventures based upon how the various political and economic institutions might machinate against each other can be taken from the Crash Course Manual for Paranoia — imagine time has passed and the World has rebuilt itself into something like Brazil … what’s the history behind Power Services … who are their rivals … what history do they have … etc? Dump the Paranoia history and rip the various bodies and their relationships, do a little surgery and you have a whole new set of corps as semi-autonomous suppliers of government bureaucracy and services (welcome to the fascist state as relayed to you by the BBC).

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Where Angels Fear
Where Angels Fear

Written by Where Angels Fear

There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die.

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