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Re: [HoE] Mason-Dixon Wall



Ah yes, Stone... good point.  I hadn't thought of that.  Makes you wonder what
all sorts of things were changed by his going back in time.  Besides the earth
going to hell and all......

Mike "Putting on his time-travel hat" Dukes

Machine-gun Kelly wrote:

> > n the Wasted West book, Jo mentions that she can't seem to remember the
> > date the Mason-Dixon wall was completed.  Not so odd.  She then says
> > that, strangely, no one else can remember either.  Only that it was done
> > sometime before 2000.  So, what do you think?  Some odd secret yet to be
> > revealed, or a historical reference that the good people at Pinnacle
> > just haven't decided on?
>
> Personally, I always thought that it was because the Reckoners tossing
> Stone back in time changed the original date. Possibly making it sooner
> than it should have been. IIRC, Stone was sent back from 2094, so anyone
> living the would have [theory here] had their memories changed when the
> timeline changed.
>
> >  Just struck me as the same kind of little remarks that were in all
> > the Weird West books hinting and sometimes telling you more or less what
> > was going to occur.  I still remember reading a sentence in the Quick
> > and the Dead, where Lacey O'malley says he wouldn't be suprised if
> > Hellstromme blew up the world one day......
> >
>
> I caught that one too. Another thing from HoE. No one remembers when the
> War Between the States ended, but Pinnacle mentioned that it will be in
> a release sometime this or next year. Again, the theory that memories
> changed when the timeline changed. The Civil War in the Weird West
> timeline ended in 1877 say, but when Stone went back in time, he started
> creating havoc that may have caused it to drag on a few more years in
> the Hell on Earth timeline. Imagine that there was only one timeline
> until Stone went back, then the disruption he caused made the solitary
> timeline split into the Weird West Timeline [the way things should have
> turned out] and the Hell on Earth Timeline [the way things shouldn't
> have turned out but did because the Reckoners cheated.]
>
> MG "Confusing himself with Temporal Mechanics" Kelly
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