| From: | Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Predator vs. Prey |
| Date: | Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:43:04 -0500 |
errand, thereby essentially losing all *my* lunchtime, I came to a sudden
realization about Predator vs. Prey. Or more specifically, the third
adventure.
I suppose I oughta put in some spoiler space before giving the specifics
about the adventure...
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Okay, enough space. In the third adventure, there are some strange events
occurring in Seattle; namely paranimals are attacking people with
disturbing frequency, paranimals that shouldn't be in Seattle somehow are,
and animals in general are acting very strange and with an intelligence
above normal.
Turns out there is a malicious spirit of an unknown type that is
controlling the critters. Evil, nasty spirit that is supposed to be very
powerful and may not be like any known spirit; it has a unique ability to
"remote control" animals as if it were a rigger remote controlling drones.
Now, it turns out over on TK a few years back, late 95, early 96, a fellow
by the name of James Cueno (some may remember the name Freddy Frypp) and I
ran a story that has some strange similarities. Enough to make me wonder,
but not enough that I would have any real justification for copyright
infringement or something.
Our "Kaer of Dogs" story (check the TK archives) was something like this; a
cave is discovered in NorCal. Investigators die. Strange animals, that
should be in NorCal let alone North America, start to pop up and start
causing problems (like behemoths and piasmas and whatever else). CalFree
military seals area off because they don't know what else to do. My
character, the Dark Stranger, sneaks in with a small local crew (who all
die horribly of course). Turns out the cave was something like an
Earthdawn kaer. Which had trapped, of course, an evil nasty spirit that
was very powerful and probably wasn't any known spirit type. The PC
destroys physical form, closes cave, then passes out from wounds, only to
wake up in a healing vat in good ol' Tir Tanglewood. Eventually released,
he hasn't appeared in Seattle or on TK since.
Two adventures, with two strange spirits that have strange control over
animals. The second one is only lacking the physical form. Yes, there are
clear and obvious differences. But enough similarities that I think if I
run PvP, I'll make them the same spirit, which in theory they could be.
Would make things a wee bit more interesting...
Ah well. I suppose this was really only a random thought, but I still
think it's a little odd.
Erik J.
Lord of the Kaer of Dogs
