Ep 43 of The Letters Page discussion- Urban Environments

General GTG Sentinel Comics Lore
#21

[quote="Princess Cool"]

My guess for Rook City is that it's somewhere in Maine, what with all that evil and magic floating around.

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That's a fair guess, too.

I could also see New Hampshire, since it has the sort of laissez-faire attitudes that could facilitate the road to Rook City's current situation.

Or Rhode Island, which is stereotypically run by the, ahem, "Organization" anyway.

(Today on: New Englander makes merciless fun of New England.)

(Ironically Holyoke is not that far off from being a real life Rook City, tho. :P)

[quote="Lord Flash Fire"]

Where would I be able to find the Mordengrad crest? Googling it doesn't work well.

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Presumably it's the illustration on the back of Baron Blade's solo villain deck.

And... I dunno, I feel weird framing it all in terms of "delays" when:

1. We're still talking about interesting info for the Sentinels universe.

2. We were way overdue for a Spite episode and I've been wanting a Biomancer episode for basically forever and found myself wanting one even more just about every time his shenanigans get more detail teased about them.

#22

Since there is a swamp outside Rook city, are there swamps in Maine, or New Hampshire? I'm from the southwest US and I don't think I've ever even seen a swamp.

#23

There's swamps here and there through most of the east coast. The Everglades in Florida is the most famous, but the northeast has swamps too.

#24

Well, you need water for swamps, and the SW US has a really short supply of that.

#25

New England is wet and has a fair bit of natural flora even nowadays, so yep, we have swamps. Enough that "Swamp Yankee" used to be a perjorative for rural New Englanders.

#26

I can't help but wonder about the Maerynian refuge, Growing their buildings from Shells is cool, but i can only imagine the Panic that a permanent hurricaine caused when it first started forming. I mean most Islands are pretty much at the mercy of Hurricaines and typhoons & for something that size to form and then just... sit there. I also now have a Whole bunch questions about Leviathan & where he fits into things. I thought the would dance around his identity a bit more. On the other hand, he would probably be a good RPG Villain.

 

As for Rook City, My headcannon has always been that Rook City is in the rust belt somewhere. I mean, I come from a city that accidentally set fire to it's river.... twice. Then the EPA happened. And we name EVERYTHING after that. Burning River music fest, Burning River Pale Ale is pretty good, there's a Burning River marathon. Anyone who can be that celebratory about how bad their city used to be is someone who would probably do okay if forced into rook city. Gothic Architecture, abondoned steel mills, industrial buildings, Rivers that meet up in the city, if our crime rate got quite a bit worse Cleveland would seem very similar to Rook City.

#27

Sounds like Ankh Morpork.

#28

Ahh, Cleveland.

If I never go there again, it'll be too soon.

#29

I love the Baron Blade bit. Best part. I hope Adam can regrow his leg with the Cult of Gloom.

I do wish we could do the interlude again. Having to do everything once a week really pushes back there story telling.

#30

I don't mind the slow pace, honestly. It means we'll keep getting new content even past OblivAeon's release.

#31

"Well, you know, if I wasn't feeling a little bit done with that bit as-is..."

"Now you're real done?  That's killed any excitement you had left."

"Shmu shmr shmuh."

Mission Accomplished

However, I need to be more careful in the future when I ask "are there any stories about X" questions.  I should have added "and if so, please tell us some of them."  I was really hoping they'd explain the garish star-spangled Bunker suit.

I was a little worried that Christopher had found his evil equivalent to Adam's Cult of Gloom stuff, but apparently that wore off.  Or so it seems....

Also, yeah, the delay on talking about Tempest is awfully conspicuous.  They teased before that they were going to go over all the Prime Wardens soon, but now they're drawing it out, and I can't help but think that's a result of the continued delays with OblivAeon.  I'm more convinced than ever that Rainek Kel is the tenth scion.

#32

We still have I think at least seven weeks of episodes to go after November's lot, with that count not including the Prime Wardens team ep, Greazer, Iron Legacy, the Scions (including Progeny), and any further environment episodes (since I have no real idea how/if they're planning to handle most of that to make a count out of it).

I'm willing to predict that December might involve to go with Captain Cosmic/Infinitor, also Sky-Sky, Kaargra, and then a sort of "Space Environments" episode which might also include Greazer in it, so who knows after that.

I do find myself wondering what will happen after we finally run out of hero/villain/environment topics. Retiring the concept as "done"? Going to a sporadic schedule of Editor's Notes to deal with the backlog of leftover followup questions?

Personally what I'd love to see is switching to doing "blow-by-blow" episodes covering a few "issues" each week, if you asked me.

Also I can't believe I forgot to mention before now that I really want to see Jill the Average Megalopolisian show up in some stuff now.

#33

After the individual character-focused episodes, I think I'd honestly like to see more "storyline" based episodes, centering on the major 'crossover' storylines.

As in, let's do an episode that details the whole of the Termi-Nation storyline and the whole kerfluffle regarding Fort Adamant.  Tell us the story as it occured, in order.  Maybe show something similar for Vengeance (though we've sort of gotten that one, already, though we haven't gotten many details regarding *how* Baron Blade ended up destroying the original FV base or what his plan was, beyond "get 'em!").  Iron Legacy, Cosmic Contest and the Voss event would also work well for this.  

Within those, it'd be easy to drift into the "Here's this special one-shot issue--let's give you the blow-by-blow" that we got with Ambuscade/Mainstay a few episodes back.

I'd also like to see some of the significant Disparation events.  I love the Marvel "What-if?" issues and the various DC "Elseworlds"--seriously, go read The Doom that Came to Gotham if you can find it--so those are of particular interest to me.

 

#34

Didn't the Chokepoint episode cover the Termination event?. There's not much there to reveal except who killed General Armstrong.

As much as I love SkyScraper, her episode should be after Voss . Her whole story is after his first invasion,so her episode should be after his.

 

#35

They may have to move Sky-Scraper's episode up so they can keep pushing the big reveal back, though.  They're running out of major characters.  There might be some surprise minor character episodes, though.  I asked a couple of other questions about Tony Taurus that didn't get answered, so they may be saving that for a Heartbreaker episode (plus he's in the Cosmic Contest, to my surprise).  And there will probably be a whole Zhu Long episode as well.

For sure, we have left:

  • Captain Cosmic
  • Infinitor
  • Parse
  • Miss Information
  • Tempest
  • Grand Warlord Voss
  • Sky-Scraper
  • Kaargra Warfang and the Bloodsworn Colosseum
  • Scions (possibly including Progeny)
  • Greazer (possibly part of some other episode, like Space Environments)
  • The Operative (possibly with Zhu Long, but we've been promised a whole episode on her)
  • At least one more Environment episode, but I'm guessing two, one for space and one that includes Silver Gulch, Atlantis, and the Time Cataclysm
  • OblivAeon

After that?  They may go in-depth into specific stories, but that really ought to be enough to last up until the release of OblivAeon, and thus the Kickstarter for the Sentinels RPG.  And in that case, they may phase out The Letters Page in favor of the RPG gameplay podcast/livestream they said they'd like to do.

#36

@padcurtin: Maybe, but if they're really pushing out Voss then it's more likely we'll get a final month of Tempest, Voss, Miss Information, and Parse (who's another OblivAeon-tied figure), since that's basically who's left for major characters other than the three I just mentioned.

Edit: Ninja'd by MindWanderer, though I hadn't known C&A wanted to do an ep about the Operative separate from the Chairman.

#37

We know for sure the brothers Lowsley are week one of December, then the Cosmic Contest takes another week , that leaves one fortnight for a pair, Miss Information is separate from the main story enough, and except for the power source Parse doesn't seem to interact with Oblivaeon so that's my guess

#38

We know at least two episodes from next month are Cosmic Contest and Captain Cosmic/Infinitor.  So I see it unlikely we get Tempest/Voss and Parse/Miss Information episodes.   I would guess we see Greazer next month on his own or part of a bigger Space theme. 

#39

I didn't start listening to the podcast until a few months in, so I decided to catch up on the Wraith and Chairman episodes the last couple of weeks in preparation for Spite and Rook City.  I believe they mentioned it in both of those, although of course they may have changed their minds since then.

#40

Oh right, duh, I forgot about the Cosmic Contest ep. XP So I amend my guess: Maybe we might actually get two environment episodes to go with the Lowsley Lads and the Contest.

@Mindwander: Ah, OK then. I admit my listening to the early eps was a bit scattershot that mainly only happened when I happened to be free that day or the next; I only started listening religiously with the Absolute Zero ep when the podcast ended up getting to be a convenient way to pass the time while escorting my mom to her rehab appointments that started then.