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Re: [Hooks] News articles that could be Pulp Adventures From Annanova(?) Dog-size rats take over power station Rats the size of dogs which can even eat through concrete are threatening to plunge parts of Montenegro into darkness. Workers at a hydroelectric power station on the River Piva say they are too scared to tackle rodents who are also gnawing their way through cables. One worker told the local daily newspaper Vijesti: "They are horrific. Coming face to face with a rat the size of a small dog is terrifying. We're all too scared to go inside the power station. "There are thousands of them and they have eaten through all the cables inside the dam walls and are burrowing lots of holes inside it. We are afraid the dam might collapse. We have no idea how to deal with them." Local authorities are meeting to try and find a way to deal with the giant rats. A spokesman said: "It's like something out of a James Herbert book, they are even eating through concrete."

Re: [Hooks] News articles that could be Pulp Adventures Maltese Falcon Stolen From Restaurant Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:18pm ET27 By Michael Kahn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Where's Sam Spade when you need him? Thieves have stolen a copy of the bird statue at the heart of "The Maltese Falcon" from the San Francisco restaurant used as a setting for the 1941 film classic starring Humphrey Bogart as the rough-and-tumble private detective. The small, black figure was swiped over the weekend along with 20 vintage books, including copies of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel on which the film is based. John Konstin, whose restaurant John's Grill bills itself as the "Home of the Maltese Falcon," said the thief broke into the case displaying the statue over the weekend. Konstin is offering a $25,000 reward for the replica's return. While the statute is not the original movie prop, Konstin said he was offering such a big reward because this copy of the Maltese Falcon was signed by a cast member from the Bogart film. "We want it back because of the historical and literary significance," Konstin said in a telephone interview. "It means a lot to us." The novel is considered the most famous example of hard-boiled fiction and was a major influence on writers like Raymond Chandler. The movie helped define the film-noir tough-guy hero of the 1940s and 1950s. Continued... © Reuters 2007. All Rights Reserved.

Re: Pulp Hero Resources Don't forget the Pulp GM Toolkit and GM Gear Toolkit for Savage Worlds from Pinnacle Entertainment Group.

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Re: Japanese ghost town Whoa! Nice find! Dangit! Tried to rep you but I need to spread it around a bit... jak

Re: Arrrrghhh..Pulp resource Guide You know, pulp heroes are rarely "dead". They catch that last root before going over the cliff, or are wearing that weird science bulletproof vest that nobody have ever seen before. It will return. with a vengence. I SWEAR IT!!! jak (like that means a lot)

Watch old 50s movies like "Killers from Space", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", "Menace from Outer Space", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", and "Attack of the Giant Leeches". Real screen gems. http://video.scifi.com/player/?id=0 Jak

Re: My Pulp art *dances around like a kid* Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome Awesome! Awesome! *ahem* jak:hush:

Re: Nicktoons Presents: Skyland It comes on the Nicktoons channel (NICKT?) at odd hours. I find myself channel surfing when I'm bored, and come across it from time to time. jak

Re: Nicktoons Presents: Skyland Over the weekend, I caught an episode where the kids accompany their "pirate" captain to find an old abandoned water storage station, to replenish their water supply. Unfortunately, the reason the Sphere abandoned the station was that the robot that they built to harvest water (a Large spider-like robot) began to harvest the inhabitants, since they were ... "mostly water". Lots of tension as the brave rebels scatter around the complex as the robot tries to "harvest" them. Big fun! jak

Re: Flash Gordon Series News Dear God, if you're listening, please don't allow the Flash Gordon series be anything like the Battlestar Galactica remake... too much drama, and Flash will fall flat on his face... jak

Re: [Hooks] News articles that could be Pulp Adventures A Wikipedia article: Albert Einstein's brain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_brain jak

Re: Visual for your next Pulp Hero game Wouldn't that be "WE are not appeased." since this pulp story would be written by a British author? heh. jak

Re: "TaleSpin" as a pulp setting I always get Tail Spin mixed up with Duck Tales... I guess that signifies how much Tail Spin I watched... jak

Re: Visual for your next Pulp Hero game The Chinese Cat-Shaman who once a year don the festive guise of their animal guardians. During this time, they are granted the mystic abilities of their animal guardians, and dance and frolic to entertain their guaridans. If their animal guardians aren't appeased, then the spirits go wild, and rampage the countryside for a month. Enter the heroes... jak

Re: Strange Funeral Rites From Around The World The system won't let me GIVE you more rep... Jak

Since I couldn't find a Minions thread here, I thought I'd throw one here... Have fun! I'll be popping in here and there with some ideas... Jak

Re: '45 Psychobilly Retropocalypse I'm going to have to do a little more research on the music of the era, 1940s-1950s rock n' roll and rockabilly. There's some interesting one-page references into the city settings (Chicago, New York, Detroit, Dallas, and Nova Berlin, a Nazi zeppelin city) and some cool references in the back for monsters (albino aligators/crocs, mutant locust swarms)... pretty inventive. jak

Hey all, Has anybody seen this game? I just picked up the PDF (and book) from RPGNow, and I'm having a laugh riot with the game world. The system is a dice pool game, but there's enough there to use Hero with easy. It reminds me of Mad Max meets Army of Darkness meets B-Movie Cinema meets Pulp meets Thundarr the Barbarian meets Gamma World. '45 Psychobilly Retropocalypse http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=6598& Here's the text from the back cover of the PDF:

Hey pulpers, Has anyone read any of the Searchers comics that are available from RPGNow? http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=20598& Are they any good? jak

Re: Pulp Hero Resources And, another one... Newspaper Headline Generator http://www.addletters.com/newspaper-generator.htm jak

Re: Pulp Hero Resources Not done quite yet... snagged from RPG.net: The Newspaper Clipping Generator http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp jak

Re: Pulp Hero Resources Here's some info from the eMints online database, which is a database of online resource links of all kinds. Decade 1900 - 1909 Decade 1910 - 1919 Decade 1920 - 1929 Decade 1930 - 1939 There's some really nice links in there. jak

Re: Using Stargate Command in a superhero game Story Seeds: Season 1: Jack O'Neall comes to the heroes when it seems his pleas for help (to defend the planet from a future attack) to the government go unanswered. Season 3-4: When the Replicator threat becomes more serious than they expected, the heroes are asked to help. Unfortunately, the Replicators are immune to most energy attacks... jak

Re: [Hooks] News articles that could be Pulp Adventures In the hopes that links won't break, I've decided to post some small articles... For Sale: Rare Dinosaur Fossil LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday. The nest of raptors, fierce predatory dinosaurs, is expected to fetch between $180,000-$200,000. "It is probably one of the finest dinosaur egg nests in the world. For the tiny skeletons still to be inside the eggs, folded up beautifully like this, means that they had to be almost ready to hatch," said Thomas Lindgren, consulting director of Natural History for auctioneers Bonhams and Butterfields. Lindgren said the 22-egg nest, encased in sandstone and containing 10 complete embryos, originated in China. It had been in the hands of private collectors in Asia for the past 20 years before being sold to an American. Tens of thousands of dollars have been spent on scientific preparation and studies to determine exactly which of the 6-8 known species of small raptor the nest belonged. That will be revealed in a 2007 academic paper now being prepared. The auction, which also includes several prehistoric skeletons and dinosaur bones, teeth and partial nests, comes at a time of renewed international interest in dinosaurs, particularly in Asia where several nations are pushing ahead with museum building programs. "Dinosaurs are hotter than ever. It is a very collectible market especially for higher quality specimens," Lindgren said. Lindgren said the nest may remain in private hands rather than going to a museum, at least initially. "Unfortunately, most museums are slow at being able to put together funding at short notice. But that doesn't mean it won't end up going to an institution. Most of the museums in the United States have been founded by private collections that have been donated by individuals," he said.