Holy crap, /tg/ is moving fast right now.

OP, you beutiful person.
I love you for introducing me to this!

>>9180707

Glad to be of service. I've been listening to the album off and on for weeks and only actually listened to the story recently. Occurred to me /tg/ might enjoy playing around with it.

Hm, this is an in-store play at Barnes and Noble. I played it once, didn't think much of it. Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow.

...being that this is literally the ONLY mediafire result for the album, I'm assuming it's the link I DL'd from.

So, have some folk concept album, /tg/.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2nwbynggnmm

Anyway, some ideas:

Even in the original opera, a speakeasy is a central setting to the plot. Clearly, there is a mob presence in Hadestown.

Apparently Cerberus can be controlled with "the bone and the bread." Could be a way out of Hadestown? Hades would not be pleased.

Booze running.

The Fates interfere with reality here. Getting out of Hadestown involves tangoing with THEM as much as with Hades.

Bump 2/5. I'll let it drop if there's no interest.

>>9180760
hm, the music is made of win...

Bump 3/5.

>>9180955

It's a good album, ya, but this is /tg/, not /mu/ so I was hoping to get some ideas flowing for using the setting.

But my brain is just failing on ways to do it that don't just feel like Dirty Thirties Redux.

Bump 4/5.

This is fucking awesome. thank you so much op. you made my day.

>>9181077

Again, glad to be of service. It IS good music.

So, any Greek myth fans hanging around who feel like tossing their two cents in about how the rest of the pantheon would interact with a world like this?

I honestly would try a little earlier in the night(depends on where you are from) indiana fag here. /tg/ would be all over this shit but it just might not be the right night for it. O wish I could contribute. I will in the next thread. i'm to busy listening to it.

>>9181125

It's pretty damn late at night here, too, so yeah, if this flunks I'll try again tomorrow, earlier. I mean, outlook: not the best, but I'm seeing some people actually listening to it and enjoying it, so it could still go somewhere I guess.

>>9181114
I >>9181125 am a BIG fan of greek mythology. but I can't stop listening to it. I promise to help next time around.

>>9181155
If you post again tomorrow and I see it I'll throw around some ideas for a while; I'd like to have a chance to download and listen to the album first.

Well, that's about all I needed to try again. Besides, posting the album and being all "so guys ideas" thirty seconds after isn't the best course of action.

So, topic to fill the time or something: Hadestown's Hades, second-best Hades voice ever, or second-best Hades voice ever?

>>9180661
So much trumpet. I think I'm in love.

>>9181225
second to whom?

>>9181287

The Hades from the Disney Hercules.

Bump 5/5, because not finishing the series would bug me.

For some reason this music makes me think of The Clockwork Quartet.

>>9180760
Winrar won't extract Track 16 of this album for some reason. Anyone else having this difficulty?

FUCK YES HADESTOWN!

Went to the first performance out in some middle of nowhere town in Vermont with a friend of mine.. so amazing.

>>9181425

Ah crap, file might've broken while compressing. I'll upload my copy of the album then, hopefully it'll go smooth.

Should be about 20 minutes though, sadly.

>>9181503

18 minutes abouts, now.

alternatively, thepiratebay has it...

>>9181725
I got it from there.

I think a good starting point for a setting is simple: where are the other gods?
Hades is building his psuedo-fascist "kingdom of dirt", hermes is the hobo guide, Persephone is doing the speakeasy route, but where are the others?

My thoughts: Hephaestus- Train man. John Henry meets mad conductor sort of vibe. Music would be driving, and repetitive.
Zeus- If Hades gets the kingdom of dirt, Zeus has to have the kingdom of sky. But not literal. No, he's King of The Ivory City. Think 1 part Emerald City of Oz, 1 part New York, and 1 part Bioshock's Rapture. Of course, things are not as great as his propaganda would lead you to believe... Watlzy, refined, but a pounding anger
Dionysus- Oh, man, oh man. Dionysus is the new king of cool. We're talking captain bootleg, the Al capone of the gods. A coalition of gods has thrown him from Olympus, but he has only grown in power. It doesn't hurt that he got Charon on his side. Underground railroad? Nope, the Veins, a series of wine rivers Dionysus uses to go where he must.

I'll think of some more.

>>9181823

That's one of the things I was thinking of asking. And I -like- it.

Persephone would be doing business deals with Dionysus behind Hades's back then, I have to guess. I mean, she can't supply an entire speakeasy with just what she can bring in a few suitcases.

Additionally, I give you this:

http://www.mediafire.com/?j22qnzewkio

For those who don't want to/can't torrent. Abbreviated archive name to avoid having my mediafire account deleted again.

>>9181823
I forgot, voices.
Hephaestus- Basso Profundo. A voice like coal, dark, deep, and rough.
Zeus- Heldentenor.
Dionysus- kavalierbariton

>>9181823

Alright, more Olympians. Not doing voices anymore though, as I had to look stuff up on wikipedia, and that'd take forever.

Hera- To understand Hera's role in the setting, remember one thing: her divine animal is the Peacock. She's showy, glamorous, but not particularly helpful. And she's finally gotten sick of Zeus's philandering, and decided what's good for the goose is good for the gander...
Ares- Is in an interesting place. Time is between two wars, so he's not what he's familiar with. However, with war of alcohol declared, he's doing his best. He's the loose-cannon cop, always too ready to fire first, and check for guilt later. Doesn't actually care about the rule, hell, he carries a hip flask.
Athena- The instigator of Prohibition. Thought mankind could pull itself to better heights if she took away what we used to tear ourselves down. She's the christian senator who makes sin illegal, she's the one who locks us up 'for our own good'. She's the damn crown jewel of the Ivory City.

>>9182100

One thing I'm thinking about...

Zeus presumably built his city up on... exorbitant amounts of money, if I had to guess. Hades hired half a million men to carve out his mine/domain.

So... would Olympus actually factor into the story? I mean, I guess if it was a setting, but it was the seat of Zeus as I understand it, and that would make the Ivory City the analogue of Olympus. Which would still allow for Dionysus to be thrown out.

I'm just wondering if Olympus should be referred to by name. I mean, it's an iconic part of the old Greek canon, but we're taking some -serious- steps away from that anyway.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QIMNERHU

MU Mirror

>>9182100
Aphrodite- When the cat's away, the mice will play. Sooty train-worker Hephaestus isn't getting invited to the high up parties of the Ivory city, but his lovely wife is. Queen of this new 'motion picture' business, she's fabulously wealthy. Unknown to her hob-knob friends, she's also the funder and leader of a growing group of flapper girls, in defiance of Zeus and Athena.
Apollo- The shining light of civilization. Too arrogant to realize that he's giving the Ivory City more than its fair share of sun, while letting the rest of the world sit in the dark, he does still jet-set over the world, in his new aeroplane.

>>9182224

...I have never pictured a more smug man in a jet than Apollo in an old biplane towing the sun in a suit that probably cost as much as the plane.

>>9182149
I think I might call it "Olympus on Earth."
It is supposed to be a pretty clear analogue for Olympus, but I don't know if I want it to be THE Olympus, sort of thing.
YMMV.

Also, I can't think of anything for Demeter, Artemis, or Poseidon, so anyone with an idea, go for it.

The best I have is Artemis as daring pulp explorer, and Poseidon as fat off oceanic trade, powerful but petty.

>>9182269

Poseidon is an oil tycoon who made his money off of oil rigs out at sea. Completes the triumvirate of the Gods as being rich as fuck, and gives each a unique industry: Gold, Culture, Oil.

Demeter... has to be out of the way sometime if it's really set in the Dirty 30s. Even when Persephone is out of Hadestown, the earth is still a dead dustbowl. Of course, with the decreased focus on godly power, Demeter won't be the Start and End of weather, but... Well, one way or another she has to be indisposed.

I've got nothing for Artemis either.

>>9182312
I like what you did with poseidon, and I think you gave me what I needed to wrap up.

Demeter/Artemis/Hestia- After The Great War, people returned to their homes with a greater appreciation for what they had. This led to an upset at the divine table: Hestia, who had stepped down for Dionysus, found herself back at the table. With an increased focus on the home, rather than nature, Demeter's power began to ebb. After a great drought swept the land, Persephone returned to her mother's house to find it empty. The gods convened, and sent Artemis out to find her. Artemis was relieved to get out of the Ivory City, as her rugged, outdoorsy lifestyle had been drawing some scrutiny from athena. Particularly her choice of companions as girls "untouched by men."

Maybe not on the same tier as the others, but a solid set.

>>9182394

Works as a decent wrap-up, yeah. But I had a (couple? not sure) thoughts.

Firstly, Apollo. Keep the biplane and such, but change it up a bit. The biplane was a gift Zeus bought him, and Apollo went a little... nuts with it. He liked it too much. So at the same time as Demeter vanishes, Apollo starts taking longer, lower joyrides around, and naturally the sun was more intense and hotter in response.

Which, naturally, gives us the Dirty Thirties.

Also, as per the original material, Hades is -everywhere.- Even outside of Hadestown, odds are he owns 45% of anything you see. Zeus is fat and happy in the Ivory City, and can muscle Hades out, but he's also not paying NEAR as much attention as he could be to what's beyond his neat little borders - which is why Hades is such a constant.

And two things about the general feel of the setting: It's dark, but it shouldn't be just dark. More like... bad times are happening, but there's still some cautious optimism in the air for... god knows what reason. I mean, even after Orpheus fails to rescue Eurydice, her and Persephone's "toast" to him is far from hopeless.

Also, I think we should avoid making the powers of the deities too close to their original. Hephaestus is the greatest engineer on the planet and made the train to Hades, yeah, but he isn't the spirit in every iron-working man. Hades has sway over his domain, but he isn't an absolute. Apollo's presence makes the sun stronger and such, but he doesn't literally carry the sun across the sky.

It allows the mystique of these Supermen and Superwomen to exist without giving anyone reason to outright believe they're divine or anything.

Oh, and a note on the Fates: This is a -really- handy narrative tool. For one thing, you can very nearly speak directly to the characters with the voice of the fates, but there's also the dramatic power of, for whatever reason, overturning or bending the rules the Fates put in place.

Shouldn't be common, granted, but it would give a great extra element to the game.

Aaanyway, I'mma save this thread for use in the next, play some Baldur's Gate and head to bead.

Expect a new Hadestown thread tomorrow, closer to early evening.