From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I've been working on some random tables that generate the interior of a place like this room by room on the fly.
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty Ur-Hadad stuff right here. I imagine the urchins living in places like this.
ReplyDeleteI first learned about this place via William Gibson's Bridge trilogy.
ReplyDeleteI based it on Kowloon, which I also heard about from Gibson. But it was this particular image which made me start writing the tables.
ReplyDeleteCasey G. We do have a particularly warren like part of Ur-Hadad know as the squat which this could work well with. I was actually making it for a Dark Heresy sort of hive world mega ghetto.
Necromunda style!
ReplyDeleteWayne Snyder That sounds awesome. It's a great image, and something like the tables you're working on would be really cool for generating parts of the Underhive in a Dark Heresy game.
ReplyDeleteThere's a cool podcast episode about it here, from the consistently great 99% Invisible: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-66-kowloon-walled-city/
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