Tokyo VIPER Nest Located

[Mutant for Hire]

Actually, it's more along the lines of "life imitates anime" category, but here's something amusing if the characters ever go to Tokyo:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm

Or at the very least it's a lot easier to justify "understructures" to a given campaign city.

[zornwil]

Wow, this was most interesting, thanks!

[Hermit]

So begins the "Champions of Japan" book ;) Or is it Pacific Rim? Or the World? or.. ah well :)

[Thirdbase]

Originally posted by Mutant for Hire
Actually, it's more along the lines of "life imitates anime" category, but here's something amusing if the characters ever go to Tokyo:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm

Or at the very least it's a lot easier to justify "understructures" to a given campaign city.

Speaking of the under city. Everyone remembers the Chicago Fire, but how many remember the Great Chicaago Flood.

Chicago Flood (http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/tunnel_flood.html)

it gets better.


Gov. Edgar (http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q2/calldig.html)

[Mutant for Hire]

So to actually make this thread useful to a Champions campaign, we can actually look at the reasons for old structures in the underside of a city:

1. Old subway/sewer tunnels.
This works especially well when you realize in the basement of some buildings there are occasionally boarded up entrances to these old tunnels and then sometimes connect to newer tunnels. This allows one to enter a mundane building and come out any subway exit.

2. WWII/Cold War structures
A lot of governments built a lot of fallout shelters. Places deep in the ground, defensible, designed to hold quite a bit. As a result, a lot of these places would probably make pretty good bases in terms of basic layout and positioning.

[starblaze]

That reminds me of the movie Blast from the Past. It was about a retired teacher and his family that live in a huge bomb shelter. They went down there during the Cuban Missile Crisis and stayed down when they thought that nuclear war had actually happened.