[ORE] Godlike: Remembering the War

Do you remember the war years?

When Der Flieger sent Polish troops scattering with his sonic booms? When he buzzed London without an aircraft and gained the name Mr. Messerschmitt from a terrified populace?

Do you remember Cien, the Pole who could lift things with his shadow? Or Pevnost, who could link any two doorways with the power of this mind, despite the distance between them?

Do you remember where you were when three million men crossed the Soviet border? Do you recall how the Indestructible Man swam away unscathed from the burning wreck of the Reuben James as it dragged nine-nine of his compatriots to a watery grave?

Or when Charles Lindbergh left for the Reich? Do you recall Null or Feuerzauber or Baba Yaga? Does the name Mr. Nowhere ring any any bells? The League of Five Thousand? Sheol? The Eisenhower Plan or Goldberg Science? Do you remember any of those things? Don't worry. You will.

That's how I remember my first look at Godlike. It was a handful of teaser pages at the Pagan Publishing website, now long gone except for samples buried in the Wayback Machine. The web pages themselves were rather hideous, in stark white text on a plain black background, but the ideas there — the ideas were thrilling. Dennis Detwiller had told me in email that he was about to publish a new game. I could tell already it would be staggering.

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