Re: [HoE] Howdy 'gin folks

[Poe336@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/16/00 10:08:50 AM Central Daylight Time, Dusarat@aol.com 
writes:

<<   But there always is a big question with introducing a new party to HoE, 
 'How do you convey the history to them?"

 
 
 #2, A man out of time.  Have the party run into a man in a nice car who is 
 terribly disoriented.  Because this man is ACTUALLY from the history where 
 the Last War didn't happen.  This could be fun because even though this guy 
 would be a mild mannered insurance salesman from Hoboken, the reckoners 
would 
 want him BAD.  Get the party embroiled in this, and wondering why Reckoner 
 Heavy hitters are coming after him. >>

Oooooh, I like this one.  I was going to have a Librarian they encounter in 
Iowa City during the first adventure (which leads into the second yarn, "Long 
Overdue"), tell them the basic histories...but, of course, he wouldn't know 
about Stone and the Time thing...I like the mna out of time idea.  I think 
that's a keeper....no question about it.

 <<#4,  Iowa, Famine country.  I'd think of some good ways that Famine would 
 keep things nice and starvin for the party.  Bloaters raiding villages.  
 Maybe a sub-plot where they are in an extended area where they don't feel 
 hunger (you keep track of their wind loss and minuses behind the screen) and 
 wait to see if they begin to notice they aint shootin too good and are 
 getting winded easily.  Other clues
 
 ---- Corpses of people starved to death yet with full packs of food
 
 ---  Legends of this land being the 'wastes' yet its fertile.>>
 
Definite good ideas with the clues.  I would have never thought about the 
corpses and pack of food.  I like it.  Gives a very surreal feel to the 
setting, very alien, and unexplainable at first.  All the things I like.

<<All the above can be done with Black hats in the background as just 
 general mooks.  Having the bladk hats hunt the party during #4 can REALLY 
 distract them from the fact that they're not eating because they're not 
 feeling hungry, I mean gunwielding yahoos sure can get me to forget a meal. 
>>

Even better.  I keep failing to bring the Black Hats into my stories enough.  
Especially since the Combine is going to be symbolic to my posse of what 
their mission (to restore the US) could easily become lest they be catious in 
their dealings...


Thanks for the ideas!

Poe