The Murderer in the Wine Cellar!

[jeregenest]

The 1996 White Burgundies are dying young.

As Tim Powers demonstrated so well wine is an excellent source of fantastic possibilites, one I've used successfully in the past (my best LARP is still the occult wine tasting I ran ten years ago -- wow that was a longtime ago I should do something like that again). So whenever I hear stories like that I immediately want to get out my notebook and scribble some ideas down for a game.

A quick google tells me that 1996 was the death of former President François Mitterand. Now Mitterand was the president who was in power when France's socialism experiment pretty much up and died and the crazy French conservatives started getting power. Mitterand had a pretty monarchial flavor and one could simply tie the death of the wine to a memorial of his kingship. Or maybe its something deeper....

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[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

Also, a quick google points out (via wikipedia) that 1996 also had a controversial parliamentary report on activities of cults in France. An unofficial English translation is available.

[head58.livejournal.com]

1996 was also the 6000th birthday of the universe, if you follow Bishop Ussher's calculations (also, if Jesus was really born in 4BC as some suggest, the 2000th anniversary of his birth). I recall being very nervous on October 23 that year, awaiting an early apocalypse.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Good old Usher. Such a wellspring of crazy thought.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Oh, fun report.