| From: | Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.RGU.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: problems with tinner's paranoid theories : etc. |
| Date: | Thu, 8 May 1997 11:30:15 GMT |
> SPOILERS?! maybe
Seriously, players keep out : also contains refs to some very recent
adventure info.
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Spoilers!!!!
> One problem I find with the whole idea of a horror being around is the
> magic/mana levels.
> The firstt time horrors were around was about 400 yrs before the end of
> ED, and that was at the peak of magic. It would only seem logical that
> they would be "dormant" until similar conditions existed.
ED is set about 300 - 400 odd years after the peak of the cycle in
the forth age (i haven't read my notes in a while but i could give
you a figure accurate to a few years or better with notes). Horrors
first showed up 100's of years before the start of the scourge maybe
> 1000 years before ED is set though in small numbers.
It comments in HB that they need a certain environment to be summoned
but that the magic level enev in SR is high enough for most to
survive on the physical plane (though their magical power could be
seriously diminished)
> Even with the
> Ghost Dance circle....oh. Just thought of something. Anybody else read
> about the Dragon Crimelords trying to claim the mana-rich ring of fire?
> Trying to raise the sunken Pacific island, in order to get more magic
> for who knows what...hmmm
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Yes i have seen this. Looked at it and banned it till i have time to
do some more research. I don't know if it's a new plot, red herring
or what, but when you get dragons, Crater lake, the Ghost dance
volcanoes and magic big enough to kill anything [vergigorm included
probably] in a few paragraphs one wonders. It could link a lot of
things but a good map of the Pacific and a look at where these
volcanoes are and that island Dunk mentioned due to pop up in 2060
are required i think before any accurate speculation is possible
here. Maybe FASA will say more, maybe they are testing the water,
Steve Kenson probably knows the truth but would probably get fed to
the proverbial dragon if he gave FASA's secrets away here, never mind
that far too many player smight get nosey and find out :), then again
maybe only Mike knows whats going on well back to the old FASA
guessing game.
Mark
