Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Angels, demons, wrestlers and zombies? WTF?
I finished reading through Zombie Smackdown! last night. The deadworlds (campaign settings for AFMBE) were pretty fucked up. Sure, the first three were fairly normal, and then it went all weird ... weird even for deadworlds, methinks.
One deadworld is basically a Mortal Kombat rip-off, but without the "save the world" theme. Another is kind of comedic, in that zombies have become part of everyday society ... and now part of the wrestling world. Another takes the MK "save the world" theme and turns it into an alien invasion story.
And then there's the last one. Dubbed "The Fallen and Risen," this deadworld essentially assumes that the Bible is right, and there will be an end of times. And guess what -- it takes place in this deadworld. However, the end of times are just a wee bit different than what those ancient scribes wrote about. Sure, the dead rise, Earth is going to Hell in a handbasket and the big war between Heaven and Hell has erupted. However, the end of times don't really have an end themselves. The final war will go on for eternity, and those angels and demons too bored with killing each other over and over again have set up little kingdoms on Earth -- and they're using humans for entertainment by making them fight each other (in mortal or zombified forms) in gladiatorial style. It's kind of like Ancient Rome meets the Biblical end of the world. Truly, truly bizarre.
One deadworld is basically a Mortal Kombat rip-off, but without the "save the world" theme. Another is kind of comedic, in that zombies have become part of everyday society ... and now part of the wrestling world. Another takes the MK "save the world" theme and turns it into an alien invasion story.
And then there's the last one. Dubbed "The Fallen and Risen," this deadworld essentially assumes that the Bible is right, and there will be an end of times. And guess what -- it takes place in this deadworld. However, the end of times are just a wee bit different than what those ancient scribes wrote about. Sure, the dead rise, Earth is going to Hell in a handbasket and the big war between Heaven and Hell has erupted. However, the end of times don't really have an end themselves. The final war will go on for eternity, and those angels and demons too bored with killing each other over and over again have set up little kingdoms on Earth -- and they're using humans for entertainment by making them fight each other (in mortal or zombified forms) in gladiatorial style. It's kind of like Ancient Rome meets the Biblical end of the world. Truly, truly bizarre.
// posted by Chris @ 9:18 AM 
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