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kytanos:
I liked the striving grow idea, It fits spokane well. Let's face it, We live in a crappy place. Spokane is not an important city, and could probably vanish and nobody would notice. I like the idea of supernatural power's striving and trying to grow in it, and being held back/setback. We get the trash of the supernatural community. :-)

I also like the idea of it being a summer area sandwiched between two winter, but let's start to be carefull. I think adding faries in weve reached our sanity limit for Spokane. Adding more supernatural factions would start to give us the lets cram it all in effect.

srl51676:
The idea with striving to grow is not a value judgment. Its just on the wrong side of a mountain range it is an afterthought to the rest of the state much like the NW is an afterthought to the rest of the nation. The point is that it is a city that is trying to be more trying to grow. The mortals are trying to attract money and power to be the leader that pushes the city in to the spotlight and the one to claim the spoils when they do. The supernaturals that end up here are more than likely the same Not big enough or bad enough to be important in Seattle or Portland but ambitious enough to strike out for unexploited territory to make a name for themselves.  Both of these groups would be willing to go to any lengths to succeed. They will lie, cheat, steal, or kill to get what they want. I also have to say anyone who thinks Spokane is a hole needs to travel more because you have never seen a real hole there are places in Chicago, Detroit, and LA that make the worst parts of Spokane look like Beverly Hills. Spokane unlike many other places is growing I remember when Riverfront park was the closest thing to an amusement park for 600 miles, when Northtown Mall was a single one story building and the valley mall was at Sprague and University and was just a strip mall with a roof.  when the city ended on the west side of Sullivan street, there was nothing past the Y at N. Division. and the entry way to riverpark square was a through street. If you want more history info on Spokane try Wikipedia all the info I used I found there.

Also the Face of the curse would be Jimmy Marks son Tommy. The face of Growth could be someone like Duane Hagadone who owns the CdA Resort and a bunch of other stuff or the Mayor or the city council.

As to not including every faction I think you are right. the faeries should be included since the Nevernever is basically everywhere so even if they are not brought to the forefront of the game it should be established what their goals and motivations are especially if you are going to use the weather as a Theme. 

Lanodantheon:
After another slow night of liberation and watching of bad kungfu movies, my group and I made some decisions on our take on Magical Spokane and our decisions were a bit surprising in the end.

We managed to merge old ideas with others and ended up with a good sense of Spokane on Paper.

 
Themes:
In the Middle of The Maelstrom

Spokane is stuck between the fighting of the Fairy Courts. We have areas of positive energy next to old lingering Thresholds dating back Centuries(Spokane Tribe times). We have Leylines conflicting with the River(needs clarification and research). We have a lot of conflicting elements that we are right smack in the middle of. Individually, these problems are insignificant compared to how bad they are in other cities, but added together, it makes a Maelstrom of crap.

Otherwise it is identical to what has been proposed before by Me and other posters. This theme seems to work.

Striving to Grow

Spokane is always trying to get bigger. New things come in and as a Crossroads, we have influence of change everywhere. The Maelstrom symbolises the city's chaos, but this repesents the city's desire to go beyond its limits, to Change.

As natives know, Spokane has 2 seasons: Winter and Construction. 

This simple Theme seems to work, especially when coupled with our choice of threat:

Threat
Resistance to Change

We may like to build new things, but change anything in Spokane and people will complain about it, even if people know the change is for the better.


After revising these themes and threat and clarifying them, we need to give them Faces via NPCs.

srl51676:
Something to consider for NPCs I'm thinking major villains

The Cowls Family Owners of the Spokesman Review and KHQ (nice coincidence with the name. see Dead Beat)
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/thefalls/archive/?postID=2749

Lanodantheon:
My group also considered the Cowls family because of their influence in town and I find it deeply ironic that their name is a letter away from One of TDF's BBEG.

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