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2006-Dec-06, Wednesday 13:18Hmm.
theweaselking gives us a slice of life:
torrain explains the Whateley family:
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( Dalek/Whateley slashfic )And in the comments,
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The creative team of Deadlands/Doomtown (apparently quite aware that the game could also have been called Cthulhu and Sixguns without missing a stylistic beat) took a degenerate little three-person (four-person?) family called the Whateleys from H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Dunwich Horror".I just figured a fair few of my f-list would like aspects of that. Need to rebuild some decks and play Doomtown again...
They then turned them into the kind of festering, corrupt, and sadly wide-spread (if not always properly branching) family tree to be found this side of a soap opera, gave them all the kind of upbringing you could expect from a marriage between Ed Gein and Lucretia Borgia, taught them to play poker with rules cribbed striaght out of the Necronomicon, shined them up enough that they could pass for not-immediately-lynchable in public, and set them loose on unsuspecting PCs and innocent civilians.
The Whateleys *rock*.