Re: [HoE] Lost Colony: A Theory

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

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> >on to devil's tower and HOE: I have a bit of a continuity prblem.

> >This seems to mean that in HOE, stone completed the ritual.  Otherwise, how
> >was the diamond used and discarded on top of the tower.  Someone (Jo, I
> >believe) even says that the area was turned into a deadland sometime in the
> >late 19th century.
>
>
>Not quite. Jo never said it was a Deadlands (she said it maybe haunted and
>once a secret lab) and in the Marshal's section it says that the ritual
>never went off so the Tower was not made into a Deadlands so Jackie
>succeeded according to PEG.
are you sure?  It says to see Fortress o' Fear, and is ambiguous on success 
or failure.  Also, yes, it is a Deadland.



> >But, if the heroes succeed (which is the "official ending"), Jackie takes
> >the untapped diamond back to the future, so it never exists drained to be
> >found on top of he mesa.  Quantum physicist I am not, but a bit of a
> >paradox exists here, yes?
>
>
>Oh god yes. A thousand times yes, but it's fun to play with time and paradox
>as a Marshal. You have to look at the fact that she left an intact Devil's
>Tower with a Junker Stronghold (probably something like the Chamber but more
>Technical than Mystical) with a laser pointing the way home using a depleted
>Heart o' Darkness and no Crossbreeds (they died at the hands of their
>creations after Stone made the Deadlands). In Jo's Hell's Atlas she talks
>about the fact that the Tower was blown to kingdom come loosing half of the
>top (exposing the Portal that was not that far from the top?) with no
>mention of a Deadlands (the Marshal's section said that Stone failed) and
>the place crawling with mutate Crossbreeds running around. So if Jackie
>succeeded and entered the Portal in the past did she come back through in
>HoE. How would the laser guide her if the Tower never had her past and she
>is wandering the Hunting Ground thinking that the egghead screwed up and so
>she is screwed. Or did she come out to find she exits the Portal on top of
>the mountain (instead of in it) and that nothing except the history of the
>Tower has changed (I hope she isn't even slightly suicidal cause that may
>push some over the edge). If she came out to this HoE it might be
>interesting to find out what she is planing on doing with the Heart o'
>Darkness now that the 'eggheads' no longer are there.
OK.  Jo says there is nothing there, civilization-wise.  I did not get the 
impression this was from first hand experience.  As you can tell from Road 
Warriors, Jo missed a LOT.  Now, secrecy would be key to this place.  We 
have an enclave of Junkers, we have Jackie Wells, at least one Law 
Dog.  Now the Law Dogs and the Templars cooperate, but given the 
holier-then-thou attitude the Templars have with the Law Dogs, would they 
really want to let them in on this? think about it. what if the Law Dogs, 
not the Templars, saved the day and made the difference?  Irony there?

My point is: if word got out of this place, they could have problems.  thus 
they don't tell everyone.  No one told Jo, thus its not in Hell's 
Atlas.  The Convoy does not go there, thus it is not in The Long, Lonely 
Road.  My guess is its a bunch of Junkers, who are getting supplied 
equipment by Law Dogs.

Now the Marshal's section did not say if the eggheads were there or not. 
interesting exclusion.  as for the remaining Crossbreeds, these mutations 
(who are in the bottom of the tower, not the top where the portal is) may 
well be no challenge for Law Dogs and Junkgun-welding Junkers.  Methinks 
their raygun days are over.

just an idea.

Jason




>And what about the Prospector? He is in our HoE and was in Jackie's. Are
>there two or did he do a shift from one to the other HoEs with the Paradox
>when Jackie succeeded? If the latter, does he have the knowledge of the
>other HoE. God, Paradox can give you such a pain in the head.
>
> >Top that off with the fact thar in Wasted West, Jo says that the tower was
> >destroyed in the last war, some 13 years before jackie wells and the
> >scientists were to open the portal.