Re: [HoE] Some non-DP comments and questions...

["Damon Harper" <nomad74@hotmail.com>]

>I agree, and can see how that would raise fear level.  But a 
supernatural
>horror?  If I'd grown up with them for 200 years, I think I'd begin to 
get
>used to them. 

   Who's growing up with them for 200 years?  If you are talking 
humanity in general, remember that abominations stem from people's 
fears, nightmares and myths, and so they are constantly re-inventing 
themselves.  
    On the flip side, "getting used to them" means complacent.  
Complacent means NO change in fear level.  Which, to the Reckoners, can 
be just as good.

 There are some very tangible horrors in our history, such as
>serial killers, that I'm fairly use to.  Even though several serial 
killers
>have struck in my local area since I've been alive, I've never been 
_too_
>frightened (I'm considering my local area a fairly broad part of
>california).  I've just grown use to the possibility.

 A serial killer is one thing.  A mojave rattler is another.  Or what if 
said killer could kill you on a whim, without so much as lifting a 
finger?   
  Or if you want to keep it on a mundane level, what if EVERY person on 
your street, block, or apt building has been killed, injured or attacked 
by a serial killer?  Would you still get used to it?
   Our soceity is so overpopulated and saturated with the media than 
anything short of being in the next room isn't real to us.  In the world 
of Hell on Earth, this is different, since the closet thing to 
socializing one has is a market or square- and even then the weirdos are 
there with everyone else, so it's 'watch your back'.
    Don't look at it from a 90s perspective so much as a technology 
unfriendly one, and maybe you'll have a better idea of what Deadlands 
and HoE is about.  :)

>Not saying that I disagree (or agree) with you, but I don't think this 
is
>necessarily true.  It has been the subject of much debate on the 
Deadlands
>listerv as to exactly what a Fearmonger is.

   Well, color me a Republican, but to me it's cut and dry.  You have my 
response.  If you, or anyone else, has an opinion about what a 
Fearmonger is, then you can answer that question for yourself.  And so, 
for the sake of the list, I am personally dropping the matter.

>
>>>It seems like it would be hard to scare a survivor of 200 years of
>>horror,
>>>and several years of Hell.
>>
>>   You are assuming everyone in Deadlands lives on to be in HoE.  

>I'm not following you on my assumption.  What am I assuming?  

  From the way you put it, you make it sound like everyone in HoE has 
been around for 200 years.  But, I think you mean humanity in general 
now that we've discussed it further, so forget what I said.

I know that
>most of the people pre-2081 are no longer around, as a result of 
nuclear war
>and the Four Horsemen.  But for the people, the war is over and the 
Horseman
>have vanished.  I agree it would be frightening, but I would think that 
the
>fear levels would begin to steadily decline.

   Lets say were are in a dark room.  Me, you, and say a dozen other 
people.   Whenever Death touches a person, they die.  So far 5 or 6 have 
fallen dead and we can't see who's next.  Would you say that since you 
haven't been touched yet that "Death has vanished?".  I would say that 
NOT knowing where the Horsemen are is more frightening than knowing.  
But, that's just my opinion.  *shrug*


-Damon Harper
 "Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude." 
		-Sir Thomas Browne 
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