Re: [HoE] HoE and Techno-Priests and Shane

[PEGShane@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/24/98 6:14:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jchurch@bu.edu
writes:

<< On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 PEGShane@aol.com wrote:
 
 > In a message dated 9/24/98 10:52:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
 > jayhad@crsa.bu.edu writes:
 > 
 > <<  got a chance to read the Thaumaturgic rules from City of Gloom on the
 >  Techno-hucksters.
 >  
 >  I think they would be an excellent addition to the apocapylse in general.
 > Junkers are what the techno-hucksters became.
 
 Hmm.  The impression I got from the Junker section in HoE (which I
 understand had some really essential stuff cut for space... any chance we
 could see the cut bits on the list?) was that they were basically redirected 
 mad scientists. 
 
 Let me try to state that a bit more lucidly...  Mads and junkers both
 use manitous to get ideas for inventions, but hucksters and huckster/mads
 can make manitous do that and a whole bunch more.  It looks to me like
 either a) junkers descend directly from mads without any real input from
 huckstering,  or b) for whatever reason, the secrets of how to *really*
 get results got lost.
 
 I know that You Are The Law (tm), but why would junkers lose the real meat
 of thaumaturgic diffusion once they had it?
 
 Joe >>

I should have elaborated. It was the thaumaturgical diffusionists who first
gave rise to junkers when the manitous stopped cooperating. As for *exactly*
how all that worked out, you'll need to wait for the junkers book. I don't
want to step on John's toes prematurely.

Shane