[HoE] New servitors

[Frederick M Zeleny <zeleny+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

WARNING, POTENTIAL SPOILER!












Okay...

Excerpts from mail: 29-Feb-100 hoe-digest.20000229 by hoe-owner@gamerz.net 
> Treat it more as a avatar - as soon as the door was opened each Reckoner
> chose a champion.  Now, there is nothing saying that these champions
> survive until the actual Reckoning - in fact in Hell On Earth it flat out
> states that Grimme bites it long before the Reckoning.  [I still want that
> title shot, John!]
> I imagine that Famine then chose another champion to step up - but that
> said champion would be weaker, comparitively speaking.  It may not have had
> the time to develop fully now that the forces of good are "awake" and
> fighting back.  The current champions were all created before the Agency
> and Rangers were organized to fight.

Here's my take on the HOE servitor issue.  I think that there are a few
new servitors in the new, blasted world.  Even with the reckoners
cheating, most of the big names lost their prime lieutenant (but not
always to the good guys).

First of all: Death still has his golden boy, Stone.  This is perfectly
in keeping with the "Death seems to be the boss" view; Stone is so
powerful that he might as well be the fifth horseman, "Whup-ass".

War lost his pal Raven, who got sick of how he was left for dead (and
more).  raven is off doing his own thing, providing an interesting
side-threat for humanity and reckoners alike.  But War definitely has
Throckmortin (or at least his controlled cyborg body) working towards
his greater efforts.

Pestilence also lost their boy, Hellstromme, albeit to more pro-humanity
causes.  But if you don't think that Silas, aka Doomsayer Prime, isn't
the very embodiment of Pestilence, then you need to take a new look at
the mutants.

And Famine lost Grimme (to relatively unknown causes; I like to think
that the heroes actually got him directly).  But he only had Gimme on a
technicality, anyway.  In keeping with the tradition of unwitting
servitors, we have someone who is so very malnourished in the area of
mercy and heart, that it's a shame no one's killed him to make him avoid
his fate.  Poor old Simon, Templar Extreme, is bound to have this
weakness put into force by the bad boy hiding out in his head...

Chalk all of this up, and we have the workings of a seriously large
scale new threat.  With all of the big four having (more or less) active
servitors, the place is hopping.  Now all that has to be done is wake up
Satan, who's resting in that rock under the prison, and we'll have a
real party...

Or I could be entirely wrong about all of this...

Fred Zeleny

Quote of the Moment:

"So, am I the only party member not carrying explosives?  Okay, then I
take cover."

    -Professor Francis Archibald Querrimore