Re: [HoE] Re: Deadlands- the 60's

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

>What I was considering-
>1. For Arcane Abilities, you still have a few of all the old abilities
>(hucksters, blessed, etc.). The Sykers would be just beggining.

   Well, it states in HoE that Sykers have been around since WWI(Sgt. York 
and all...).  So Sykers have been around for 30 or 40 years.  I would go 
more along with they are still ultra-seceret.

I figure the
>hippies would have some sort of arcane abilities (albiet non-violent). 
>Maybe
>something involving computers, because technology is always ahead a while.

    IIRC, the Hippie movement was anti-technology.  They believed that 
everyone should go "back to nature".  As well as the whole, peace/love 
thing.  I would figure *any* arcan abilities hippies would have would be 
illusionary or medicinal.  ("Psyche-Out"s and so forth).

 >2. There were some cults (Manson), perhaps the John Birch Society might 
have
>something behind it, as well as the Black Panthers. God alone knows what 
>kind
>of crazy stuff is going down in the CIA (and the Confederate equivalent).

   I would chalk these cults up as some of the reasons the US and CS gov'ts 
were working on their cyborg programs(granted, they weren't successful until 
the 90s, but that doesn't mean they don't have any "prototypes" running 
amuck).  I would also figure with Eastern philosophies becoming more popular 
around this time period, Monks of the 37th Chamber would have folks lining 
up outside wanting to join, as well as other schools in and around the Great 
Maze.
   As for Chuck Manson, we all know he's a servant of the Reckoners.


-Damon Harper
   "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield
   and government to gain ground."
                             -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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