Zeppelins

[mattingly]

This probably belongs in NGD, but it's fun and pulpy.

Yesterday, I won in a citywide impromptu speaking contest at Toastmasters. We started with nineteen contestants, then voted for the best seven, then three, then one.

My first round question was:
"You have just been appointed to the mayor's council on transportation. What changes do you suggest?"

I immediately answered: "Zeppelins!" Then I went into all the reasons that zeppelins are totally awesome, and how it could be made even more fun by dropping passengers off with a series of bungee cords and sliding boards.

I was almost unanimously voted to advance to the next round with that one.

[Yansuf]

Not bad, but blimps are cheaper.

[Cancer]

I co-ran an adventure (2 GMs working in parallel) which involved the PCs hijacking a commuter blimp in the 24th Century (IIRC), dropping off the passengers, picking up a load of mathematicians at a conference, and funneling their captives through a time warp (whose entry was a couple hundred meters off the ground, hence the need for air transport) into permanent captivity.

It was a time-travel adventure/campaign, and they were trying to prevent the invention of time travel by preemptively abducting the mathematicians who showed that it was possible and indicated the way to go about implementing it. One half of the party did the abductions of the mathematicians, the other half did the blimp hijacking. Both halves of the party occasionally picked up snippets from other and asked questions ("Airship?!? Where did an airship get into this?")

It was somewhere between manic and slapstick.

[Duke Bushido]

Zeppelins.

Nothing cooler.

[tkdguy]

http://www.airshipventures.com/

I'm saving up for a trip.

[AmadanNaBriona]

http://www.airshipventures.com/

I'm saving up for a trip.

I was looking at their site and saw that they have Event rates...

I can think of a number of semi-local steampunk events...

[tkdguy]

That would be good. I was hoping to go for the 30-minute ride for $200 (as opposed to the hour ride for $500), but I don't see that on the schedule anymore. I'll just have to save up a little longer.

Last night I had a dream that I almost had enough for a trip and heard the company was going belly up. Thank God that was just a dream!

Edit: A steampunk event would be great, since I've been thinking of making a Steampunk movie.

[Steve Long]

Heh, that looks kinda cool. Maybe I'll have to schedule an extra DunDraCon day this February and give that a try.

[ghost-angel]

I was thinking the same thing...

[tkdguy]

Of course, if we're going to talk about zeppelins and blimps, we need to mention the people who are building their own airship.

[tkdguy]

A couple of videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lywXi...eature=related

How about an airship hotel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDdig...eature=related

[DusterBoy]

We're living in great times, my friends.

(Who can't wait until the technology matures? )

[IndianaJoe3]

There's always this nifty concept.

[GoldenAge]

We're living in great times, my friends.

(Who can't wait until the technology matures? )

I'm waiting for this future!

[DusterBoy]

I'm waiting for this future!

Which looks like the awesome!