From:	Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@***.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: The screw-up
Date:	Wed, 12 Oct 1994 17:27:32 -0500

> from what you say - chicago went up august 20 - thats almost two
> months ago. The problem is - we didn't learn about until last week
> - and NO ONE BESIDES YOU
> AND A FEW OTHERS KNOWS WHATS GOING ON!!!

Then find out, if need be from those of us that DO know what's
going on. *sigh* I refuse to take all the fault on this...

> NO - before we screw with whats happening SOME ONE WILL TELL US
> WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN AND FROM WHAT SOURCE THEY GOT THE INFO.

I'll tell you the Burning Bright plotline.

There were some Knight Errant people going on a raid of a UB
"stronghold" in Chicago. They kept going in, and found a lower level for the
place. And went in. And found hellish amounts of Insect Spirits all over
the place...which proceeded to flee into the city, killing absolutely EVERY-
ONE, just before a scheduled nuke came in.

From there, the bugs took over most of Chicago. Started rounding
up people to convert.

A few people were stuck there. Some KE guys, and a hermetic mage
survived (barely) from several blocks away from the "incident". They were
ordered to set off a nuke to take out several of the queens before the UCAS
could drop bunches of mega-bug spray on the city, killing everyone.

They succeeded, in as much as the nuke killed several of the
queens and stopped the problem from expanding much more. It went off
inside a magical ward, also, so there was little if any damage outside
of it.

And that's where it stood as of approximately August 25th.

> Characters who are involved in some way or another (heck - I have 6
> characters involved total - and two in two of the plot lines!!!)

And you can't fix the plotlines to fix the world? As I've said,
this is an example of the real world intruding on your plans. The problem
that most villains/GM's have (not related, of course).

> intelligently - We can't keep to a FASA schedule on this List -
> that is

We can keep to a semblance of it. What we're doing now is "screw
FASA, we'll just do what we want, world be damned", and I decided not to do
that.

> WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOUR CHICAGO POST ISN'T WORLD EFFECTING!!!

My Chicago post is not world affecting. The Chicago situation
is.

> NOW - lets stop saying "WEL I"M GOING TO DO THIS" - AND TELL US
> WHAT FASA HAD HAPPEN SO THAT WE CAN INCORPERATE IT!!!

I said that I was going to have my plot happen. And that it makes
no sense to kill me because of my adherance to the FASA world.

> Tell us what happened in Double Exposure and Burning Bright and of
> the history

(Actually, I do not have Double Exposure. I'll probably buy it
within a couple of days to read and explain...)

> PS - if you have ever noticed - I hardly ever react like this, and
> I try not to

I know. I was QUITE surprised to see you this violent.

I'll get a better write up soon.

Tim Skirvin | "They didn't die for nothing, they died to bring
tskirvin@***.uiuc.edu| us Pepsi!" -- Mr Sutton on "Glory"