Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6191693-20130815031827

I'm not sure, but I think I might be the only one of us who writes much (or at least attempt to) outside of Vapor. I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread where I can bounce ideas about various things off of you guys.

This is by no means a thread all about me. If I'm wrong (which, actually, I just remembered seeing one of you guys starting a Vapor-based short story or something a while back -- Pav, maybe?), you're all more than welcome to share your ideas here for some constructive criticism.

My first musing is a fairly minor one relating to my novel, which is based loosely on a long-dead NS RP. In the RP, William Griffith (one of the main characters both in the RP and in the novel) was a professor at the Tagan College of Science and Technology. Well, my novel is set in the real world, where TCST does not exist. I was wondering where he should work, then. Should I plop him into some RL university or create my own fictional uni (perhaps even still call it TCST)? I was also considering making a nod to Lovecraft by having him work at Miskatonic University, a fictional uni in New England that he came up with and which has also been used by dozens of other authors since then.

Whaddya think? I'm inclined to use Miskatonic because I quite like it and it alredy has a certain connotation surrounding it (a connotation that is conveniently in-line with my story), but I'm not sure if it would be too heavy-handed or if it could be perceived as putting myself into Lovecraft's shadow. 