From:	chaos@*****.com (Steven Ratkovich)
Subject:	Re: The Big D's Will...
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 1996 22:13:01 -0500 (EST)

>Here we go again. WEll, at least this lets me post some of my pet
>theories since I missed the thread the first time.
>
>On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Steven Ratkovich wrote:
>> 20 million Nuyen to renew the Jiffy Pop patent and start production again...
>>
>So he likes popcorn. put the tray over his mouth, breaths a little, and
>viola. Hell, *I'D* buy jiffy pop is I could afford it. I can't stand
>nukable popcorn...
>
Niether do I...

>> The photos with the pyramids, dragon (?) skeleton, and Flying Saucer taken
>> on Mars...
>
>A new direction for FASA, or at least an openning depending on how well
>the players and GMs react.
>
Or possibly something to get everyone looking in the wrong direction...

>One of my pet theories:
>
>I only recall the big d calling 2 people 'old friends'. Erhan (the
>scribe) and David Knight.
>Now, how do you qualify to be an old friend of a dragon? You be a
>helluvalot older than most other breathing people.
>
>So, does this make david knight immortal? or maybe a shapechanged
>dragon, or a free spirit.
>
>and if Knight is immortal, are there other immortals out there? besides
>elves?
>
That's a scary and interesting thought...

>He also wishes Mr. knight a challege to find another suitable opponent
>and a reference to his nano-second buyought of Ares. This is more on a
>limb, but my guess is that the program to do the purchasing was based on
>a computer model of a dragon's brain. Which is why only another computer
>(or a dragon) can make any sense out of it. Much like neral nets are
>loosely based on a human brain.
>
>
>Other theories:
>Could dragon magic be able tot ell the future? he makes a LOT of
>comments about future events. People who will be important, things
>people need to do, etc.

Personally, I think some of it is the Horrors taht he's referring to... He
knows, as well as most of the other immortals, that they will be coming
back, and sooner than they should.

>Could it be he ws the one feeding info to KSAF? and being inable to
>forsee hisown death, the reason KSAF didn;t cover it live? (although,
>that is a contradiction. as the first wfew pages say KSAF didn't cover
>it, and the first section IS KSAF covering his death. And there are
>'photos' of the coverage, but later the book says no electronic copies
>were made, only simulations.

Well, I just re read the whole section, and it doesn't say in there anywhere
who Irena Naylor, the reporter, worked for, KSAF or otherwise. I would
assume that since it said KSAF WASN"T there, then she probably worked
elsewhere...

Also, it's possible those 'photos' are the computer sims. After all, tech
in the future's good enough that they could make the sims look *very*
lifelike.


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towering rage."
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