| From: | Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu |
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| Subject: | Skipping Black Madonna. |
| Date: | Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:23:44 -0400 |
>One thing I found truly odd about the whole Black Madonna book was the
>mention of Leo's Otaku doing some "Great Work" that seemed connected to the
>Horror-thread. Now, it's been mentioned before in SR novels (WWE, I think)
>that the Matrix would be some help in the coming battle. Myself, I can't see
>it making any sense. Anyone else?
>-Twist
>"Anemic deckers wage war against hellspawn astral demons: On the next Jenny
>Jones."
The Great Work that they were talking about was the compound that Leo was
working out of. He knows that the Enemy are coming (sooner, or after DHT
later) and he wants to be a survivor. So he was trying to build a kaer out
in the middle of nowhere. Of course it also had StA missiles and various
other armaments that tehy didn't have during the fourth age.
One big benefit of the Matrix is the instant communications. During
Earthdawn how long did it take to pass around the plans for the kaers? How
did one let the other ones know that most of the Horrors had left? That and
a lot more could be done through the Matrix. One of the biggest weapons
that the Horrors had before was lack of information between the people they
were eating. Its a lot scarier to know that some million year old monster
from the depths of the Netherworlds is out to get you that an astral entity
that has these particular characteristics and can be theoretically defeated
like so.
In the Sixth Age, knowledge is power.
Sommers
Insert witty quote here.
