Post by Champion Bond on Feb 19, 2006 1:40:10 GMT -5
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which is the base for this RPG, is a comic book by writer Alan Moore. It is set in alternate history where fictional people from Victorian era adventure novels actually exist. People like Dracula, Sherlocke Holmes, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...these are just some of the many, many people.
In the book, a group of these people are recruited by a man named Champion Bond (a possible relative, and reference to James Bond). These people are none other than Allan Quatermain (from King Solomon's Mines and its many sequels), Mina Harker (now Mina Murray, from the Dracula book), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Professor Griffin (from The Invisible Man, he is given the name Hawley by Moore) and Captain Nemo (of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea fame). These 5 are gathered together to stop a man named Fu Manchu (from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu). Champion Bond is working for a man he only states is named M (another reference to James Bond).
During the book, these 5 adventure out to stop Fu Manchu, and along the way there are numerous eastor eggs and references hidden in the book. Over the course of the book, they find out M is james Moriarty, the evil villain from the Sherlocke Holmes novel "The Final Problem". Moriarty is finally defeated and replaced with Mycroft Holmes as the new head of British Secret Service (Mycroft is Sherlocke Holmes' older brother)
In Volume 2 of the series, Martians from "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells invade Earth and try to conquer it, until Champion Bond uses the common cold (founded by Dr. Moreau) to defeat the treacherous invaders.
In the book, a group of these people are recruited by a man named Champion Bond (a possible relative, and reference to James Bond). These people are none other than Allan Quatermain (from King Solomon's Mines and its many sequels), Mina Harker (now Mina Murray, from the Dracula book), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Professor Griffin (from The Invisible Man, he is given the name Hawley by Moore) and Captain Nemo (of 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea fame). These 5 are gathered together to stop a man named Fu Manchu (from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu). Champion Bond is working for a man he only states is named M (another reference to James Bond).
During the book, these 5 adventure out to stop Fu Manchu, and along the way there are numerous eastor eggs and references hidden in the book. Over the course of the book, they find out M is james Moriarty, the evil villain from the Sherlocke Holmes novel "The Final Problem". Moriarty is finally defeated and replaced with Mycroft Holmes as the new head of British Secret Service (Mycroft is Sherlocke Holmes' older brother)
In Volume 2 of the series, Martians from "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells invade Earth and try to conquer it, until Champion Bond uses the common cold (founded by Dr. Moreau) to defeat the treacherous invaders.
