Re: [HoE] Re: Where's Darius (was Throckmorton thread)

[Prince Nightchilde <nghtchld@gte.net>]

That's a cool idea.  Of course, I like the Hellstromme/Harbinger idea, too.
Hehe.  Imagine the fun.....

Hellstromme/Harbinger:  After years of being conditioned that Hellstromme is
THE badguy, the PCs learn that he is the Harbinger, a now fully-good soul (more
or less).  Can they overcome their personal hatreds?

Hellstromme/Denver:  The PCs get into Denver and enter a massive factory.  The
entire factory itself seems alive and tries to stop them at every turn.  The
get to the main control room and they find a brain in a vat of solution
hardwired into the control system.  A loudspeaker crackles to life..."Welcome
to my parlor, said the spider to the fly" comes over the loudspeaker in Dr.
Hellstromme's voice (to pull this off, you would have to cultivate a voice for
him in a game beforehand where the PCs meet him) just as the lasers in the room
turn towards them and start humming....

Marshal Nightchilde

Erik Kjerland (S&T Onsite) wrote:

> Hellstromme Theory 2: The pockyclipse gave Hellstromme a heart attack.  He
> died.  His aides removed his brain, put it in a nutrient filled glass
> cylinder, and connected it to his factories.  Hellstromme's brain now
> controls Denver.
>
>         Actually, I think Hellstrome is still on Earth. Following the
> massive amount of destruction he brought about, he wanders out into the
> wastes in a fit of depression and madness, perhaps hoping that he'll die.
> Hmm... sooner or later, he's going to return... a bit of Scripture comes
> to mind here: "... a voice crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the
> paths of the Lord...'"
>         Young prophesied that Darius would bring about great destruction,
> AND that he would convert. Since we've been talking about the name thing,
> let's look at his name too: Hellstrome - Hell Storm. He certainly helped
> bring about Hell. Taking it a step further, since it was his work that
> heralded humanity's doom, that would also make him... a Harbinger.
>         While Hellstrome's out there wandering around, I have a sneaky
> suspicion he'll be walking face first into every bit of radiation he can
> find, hoping to perish of rad sickness. And then, when he realizes he's
> not going to die from it, he'll remember what Brigham Young said.
>
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