[Adventure Setting] La Recoleta, Buenos Aires

[misterharry]

This isn't quite an adventure seed, but I didn't know where else to post this thread.

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to go to Buenos Aires and visited La Recoleta cemetery, where many of the rich and famous of Argentina's recent history are interred (perhaps most famously Eva Peron). La Recoleta is a veritable labyrinth of mausoleums set out in blocks of streets and alleys complete with vintage street lamps and its own population of feral cats. But what really caught my attention were the legions of angels around the tombs and perched on the rooftops, and I immediately thought that this would be an excellent setting for an adventure featuring the Weeping Angels:







La Recoleta is located deep within a modern city with a population of around 3 million souls. So, what adventure possibilities does this setting offer to GMs?

[Marnal]

Well Buenos Aires is the location of one end of the Blessing from "Torchwood: Miracle Day" so the question becomes, why have the Angels been hanging around a device that can time lock all of humanity?

And that raises the question, can the Angels shift Captain Jack who has been fixed in time? And even if they could, is there any temporal potential for them to feed on, or do they find him indigestible?

Either way I'm going to try to do a last minute work-in of this location into my adaptation of the module "The Dying Earth" that I've been running every Saturday for the last 26 weeks.
[so far the PCs have visited Buenos Aires in 6225 AD, 2023 AD, 1543 AD, and 20,000,000 BC!]

[Catsmate]

I have to say Argentina isn't the first South American country I associate with Whovian weirdness, that's Brazil with it's mysterious Amazonian jungle and allegedly alien inspired capital.

But there was an Osterhagen station there, so UNIT had some presence, and there's a reference in The Devil Goblins from Neptune to UNIT observing Julsaen ships attempting to land in Argentina.
It'd be an interesting location for it's lack of prior connections to the Who mythos, allowing a GM to find a setting the players probably aren't that familiar with and won't have expectations about.

Of course there's always the option of mixing the one thing commonly associated in "spy-fi" with Argentina; Nazis. It's estimated that five thousand of the roughly nine thousand former Nazis that fled to South America arrived in Argentina.

Where were de Flore and his people based? It was portrayed as somewhere in South America and could easily have been Argentina. Did his organisation survive the failure of their plan to acquire the Nemesis statue? Do they have other plans and secret knowledge, perhaps left over from the Second World War? Maybe they've found, or are trying to find a sunken U-boat containing advanced or alien technology. Or they could be in contact with the Antarctic Space Nazis (who could in turn be involved with survivors of the Cyber invasion of 1986.

• Late in WW2 two German submarines (U-977 and U-530) did travel to Argentina rather than surrender in Europe. The latter is the more interesting as the captain never explained why the trip took them so long, why the sub's deck gun had been removed (cargo pods?) or the lack of identification paper for the vessel or it's crew. Conspiratorial speculation abounds...