Friday, 14 January 2011

......This is the BBC

Got to quickly brainstorm this Tomorrrows' War  idea whilst it's running round my head. London....post apocalypse, the city is shattered and lays in twisted, toxic ruin.

Dirty bombs - London 2012 Olympics -  famine - civil unrest - breakdown of law and order - Twilight 2000 - blah-di-blah.....

The survivors and remnants of miltary units are now coalesced into the shell of formations, communities and allegiance based on old Football Clubs (seriously).

Stadiums become fortresses.........

Arrrrggghhh!!! Can't get London Calling sung by The Clash out of my head!


"A nuclear error, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the riverrrrrrr"

Mark
     
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6 comments:

  1. TiYo14 January 2011 at 14:03

    Great idea !!!

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  2. Lead Addict14 January 2011 at 15:46

    Yes who knows what we will all cling to in the apocalypse. Great idea.

    Post Apoc gritty near future in England will always be Children of Men to me.

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  3. UNIT recon15 January 2011 at 09:54

    DO YOU REMEMBER THERE WAS A (bbc?) redux of Quatermas in late 70's early 80's?

    Just that sort of environment, complete breakdown of social order. BBC putting on bondage shows as family entertainment. Remnants of South African military & police being "paidcops" (already call community cops this). Gangs holding stadiums, street junction barricades with a wide variety of weapons including crossbows. I ran a short traveller game based in Dorchester.

    Remmbering the nrear-police state we were then, it had a very near-future feel. Particularly with a compund bow to hand-

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  4. Mark15 January 2011 at 10:26

    Yes! I was watching it on YouTube recently more with my Winter of '79 project in mind but I agree totally that it melds with "London Calling". In fact London Calling could be a Sci Fi/Futuristic version of Winter of '79. Although I see the two as separate.

    Your Traveller based game set in Dorchester sounds fun.

    Cheers
    Mark

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  5. David16 January 2011 at 07:28

    "Albion! Albion!" by Dick Morland - England in the 1990s: an England in which the partisan and hysterical hooliganism of football supporters, now completely out of control, has determined a pattern of political life. Parliament has been permanently dissolved, and the country self-divided into four clubs - City, United, Wanderers, and Athletic - all violently opposed to one another.

    Haven't read it in years, but might be useful for background inspiration.

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  6. Mark16 January 2011 at 10:30

    Excellent find Kobold!

    Cheers
    Mark

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