[HOE] Re: Time-travelers

["travis lide" <sinisterdexter@mindspring.com>]

----- Original Message ----- >
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 23:36:26 -0700
> From: Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com
> Subject: Re: [HOE] Time-travelers
>
> > Spoilers for Bob Fletcher (don't even think about it Bob!)
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > -
> > -
> >
> <<Snipped>>
>
> > All of his equipment fell apart BTW (cause of TE) except for his two .44
> > automatics. What I decided was that the guns are made from Ghost Steel
and
> > ghost steel is immune to TE (as it is infused with souls, and hence not
> > trully inanimate).
>
> So wouldn't a Junker device be immune sense the Techno-Spirit is what hold
> the device together.

Not necessarily. Tech Spirits would have been weak in the Weird West because
of the relative proliferation of shaman spirits, manitous, etc... in HoE,
they survive by hanging out in big groups and protecting each other before
they can be destroyed. Regular spirits are fighting manitous, tech spirits,
toxic spirits, etc so their attention isn't as focused in HoE. If a techie
comes back to Weird West time, he might be attacked and destroyed like most
Tech Spirits were in that time anyway. See The Junkman Cometh for more
info..

> I'd go with the set the bomb now and it is set to go off later. As for a
> target I'd set the bomb in a defunct mine that would be a future home for
> the braces of the Dome. The trigger could be a Radiation detector so the
> first City Buster would trigger the bomb collapse of the Dome and the
other
> City Busters would take out the city but may allow the energy suckers
bellow
> to collect the energy for Throck latter.

The bomb would have to be set for much later than 1877, I agree. Hellstromme
has to be thrown out of Deseret and establish Denver first for Throckmorton
to have even sent someone back, right?

Assuming Throckmorton knows about the radiation dampeners, I think setting
the bomb to go off when the first one activates is the best thing to do.
Although if that's the plan, it makes you wonder why he sent someone to 1877
to do this. I guess you could use the "Path of Stone" idea - that time
travel only works in certain increments and it had to be 1877 or nothing.

Sinister "I hate time travel.. too much paradox" Dexter
sinisterdexter@mindspring.com