Re: [DL] the problems Manitou face (slight spoiler)

["Jimmy Craig" <jimmythebarrel@hotmail.com>]

Well, my thought would be that you cannot have fear if there is no 
consiquinces from whatever is causing fear.
How can you keep people scared if the realize after a couple of weeks that 
there is no substance to the reason they are scared?
If a werewolf is terrorizing a town and no one dies from hi attacks, it just 
becomes that hairy guy who jumps out of the shadows and yells 
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR". You might jump, but after a while, you just chuckle and 
walk on, or it might just get old.

Its a matter of the bark being worse than the bite. The Reckoners are not 
mean in the cranky old dog way, they are terrifying in the I'm being chased 
by undead way.

As long as the birth rate exceds the death rate, they have their fear for 
years.

They would wan the world more deadly to raise fear level, the more the fear 
the more they get. And the most terrifying thing is the fear of death. So, 
they make it more deadly.

Just my thoughts.

Jimmy the Barrel

>the Manitou/Reckoners feed off fear and their power is
>derived from fear, yet they do all these things that
>kill people. when you kill someone then the fear that
>they are generating stops, so why would the Reckoners
>and by default the Manitou be trying to make the world
>more deadly?
>wouldn't they want it to SEEM more deadly?
>if your posse are inadvertantly raising the fear level
>(as my group has done from time to time) wouldn't the
>manitou want to keep them alive so that they can
>generate more fear?
>likewise, if a mad scientist creates a gadget that
>actually helps the manitou, wouldn't it have NO
>reliability check (until it no longer served the
>manitous' purpose)?
>I could keep asking questions ad infinitum, but I
>think you get my point.
>any thoughts?
>-doc
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