Corbin: a slight change of course

So I've decided, once again, to change my direction with my eventual Tales of Corbin.

Before he was to be some kind of esoteric illusionist traveling about some bizarre surrealistic world in search of experience. Or something.

Now THAT is an interesting challenge. But my desire to craft it has dwindled. I just can't seem to focus on any one thing lately.

Instead, now that it is autumn and my tastes turn to the more somber and gothic (being heavy in debt and mourning the death of summer helps a bit), I've decided to indulge in another possible course of action.

I am re-visioning Corbin as a gentlemanly scholar of the science and the arcane mysteries. Like many skeptics, his goals are to reveal the Truth about the shadowy parts of our world.

Just like the symbolic Eye of Enlightenment that the Masons associate with, Corbin sports the eye symbol as a pin on his bowler hat.



Also, he will wield an umbrella (with concealed sword cane). The base of the handle will be round and be stamped with an Elder Sign (protection against the servants of the horrors from beyond).

So yeah. Let's see how that goes. I really want to do a slightly campy story about a vampire in a small village.

The problem is that this has all been done before so many times. How on earth can I keep it interesting?