Spy fever

I've been reading LeCarre's latest, Absolute Friends, and couipled with watching MI5 and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy I now find myself wanting to do some gritty espionage again. But no action. Pure LeCarre. I'm envisioning a game starting in the late 60s early 70s with young recruits and than moving forward to the modern day when the characters are all old hands called back to solve a big modern problem. Yes I wear my sources on my sleeves, and I'm proud of it.

Jess ad I brainstrmed an innovative use of CF dueling for the game too.

I think I'll try to write this up for 20x20 later.

binding present acts to past events

One of the LeCarre tricks I'm ruminating over is his now practiced theme of binding present acts to past events to its ultimate logical conclusion. An element you find in many of his books (including Absolute Friends) and one Tim Powers used rather effectviely in Declare. I'm considering ways to move the story forward through the past and link it to the present. The obvious easy solution is to run the game chronolgicaly. Just not sure how desirable that truly will be. Things to ponder as I strt writing up my campaign brief.

Rather interesting that, I've had three game concepts swirling in my brain but this is the first time I've gotten around to actually writing a brief.