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or die? Or fight back with the atrefact
Young Indy said:What about the head of Medusa as a MacGuffin? Perseus used the head has weapon. Anyone who gazes into it turns to stone. That is very powerful! Plus her hair is made of snakes! That works very well for Indiana Jones who hates them!
emtiem said:I'd like to see him trying to stop a bunch of guys from bringing the Devil back: proper super-scary stuff.
Something similar was cooked up back in '84/'85:emtiem said:I'd like to see him trying to stop a bunch of guys from bringing the Devil back: proper super-scary stuff.
All of these are good ideas and, interestingly enough, some of them have been used in "exapanded universe" material.otto rahn said:If they hadn't already used it in the latest "Mummy" movie the Terracotta Army and the tomb of the first emporer of China would have been good. What about the Tomb of Genghis Khan ?
Wait, where'd you hear about that? Is it in the Bible?emtiem said:One device which jumps out is a bow which Nimrod is said to have used to fire arrows at God: that's a pretty big and scary idea- that the baddies want to kill God using this ancient weapon. You can imagine all sorts of proper spooky stuff going on there at the top of the Tower.
No, it's part of the Jewish midrash tradition, which is a way of creatively expanding on what's in the scriptural texts.Johnny Jones said:Wait, where'd you hear about that? Is it in the Bible?
emtiem said:Far East would be good; we need a snowy Indy
A group of us were throwing around some ideas on another forum; one that got settled on was that of the Tower of Babel- the tower built for speaking to God. One legend that's quite interesting comes from the Midrash and Josephus accounts: that is the idea that the Tower was built as an affront against God - indeed, to make war with him. Perhaps its original makers fashioned a device with knowledge beyond our own, a device so insidious and dark that it was destroyed? Something along those lines. There's a lot of possibilities.
One device which jumps out is a bow which Nimrod is said to have used to fire arrows at God: that's a pretty big and scary idea- that the baddies want to kill God using this ancient weapon. You can imagine all sorts of proper spooky stuff going on there at the top of the Tower.
Violet Indy said:As much as I love this idea, I sadly have to inform you that it was in the "Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine" videogame from 1999. Taking advantage of the machine that talks to heaven. In the case of the videogame, it was a machine, which had parts scattered across the globe, each part with a special power. All parts put together create a machine which transports you to a dimension known as the 'Aetherium', where the Babylonian god, Marduk resides. It has some pretty heavy alien take on the game. If you didn't like Crystal Skull chances are you probably wouldn't like the game.