Re: [HoE] The Wasted West, My 2c (Long)

[Seyton <n9543488@cc.wwu.edu>]

Just a few comments on your comments.

> D.Tacoma - Sure its my hometown, but living under Narrows Bridge is the 
> biggest octopus in the world, and the zoo has the nation's largest 
> collection of psychotic elephants. Also, the GR bomb would have been aimed 
> more towards McChord AFB or Fort Lewis, so most of the city would be 
> intact. Too bad all of downtown would be buried under ash.

Nah, Tacoma would have upset enough people to make sure it's destroyed.
Have to get rid of the smell, but then again, maybe it's still there!
Only now it has grown supernaturally!  And maybe it has even bonded with
the octupus!

> Second off, they made the mistake of assuming that a TEMPERATE rain forest 
> is the same thing as a TROPICAL rain forest. The Olympics don't have giant 
> deciduous trees overgrown with liana (sp?) vines and crawling with snakes 
> and ants. The olympics have giant red cedars, yews, and firs covered with 
> moss. In fact, everything in the Olympics is covered in moss. Most of the 
> insects there are of the wood beetle variety. Think Endor rather than 
> Dagobah.

There are quite a few misquitos.  Those can get pretty scary at times.
What I would imagine for scary supernatural temperate rainforests would be
the forests depicted in the Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R.
Donaldson.  The forest is a force of good in the books but it would be
easy to make it creepy and evil, and it does eat people.  The moss is
describved well also.