[HOE] Re: The Boise Horror (Spoilers)

["Ray C." <r_a_c_@hotmail.com>]

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You'll loose all your fate chips if you keep reading...  There, that scared 
'em away!

> > That would put
> > Boise down to Level 2. Would that make it no longer a Deadland, and 
>snuff
> > out
> > the Ghost Rock storm or what?
> >
><< It would indeed lower the Fear Level, but the Ghost Rock storm is there
>until
>  the *average* of the earth goes down. Shane. >>
>
>But would it remain a Deadland? I mean, a Fear Level 2 Deadland, what's the
>point of that?

Well...  You'd probably get Deadland Created monsters...  But they just 
don't seem as fearsome from out here.  :-)  (Sorry folks, had to do the 
paraphrase!).

Personally, I have to thank Shane for this "Official Statement"...  See, the 
new guy in my group is a bit obsessed with the Maelstromes, and are sure 
that they hold the answer to ridding the World of the Reconers, and is 
talking with his Trash Spirit buddies about it.  (He's also annoying any 
Junker he gets in contact with about it as well, which didn't endear him to 
the Uber-NPC that travels with the Posse, Ol' Zeke, the 244-Year Old Walking 
Dead Guy and Spook Juice Producer.).  He's sure that I'm keeping the full 
story on 'em from him, and that this is, indeed the answer!!!

While I am keeping stuff from the group (Such as the fact that I don't know 
weither the Maelstromes are part of the equation, or just a side effect!), 
this isn't one of them, and it helps distract him from the problems at hand 
on occasion.  :-)

I would, personally, have the Maelstrome "Kicked down a notch", and increase 
the number of card pulls for entering Boise Proper by one (The story for 
this is in "The Last Crusaders" PIN 6008.).

The Posse is on their way to Boise now, in fact, returning the "Sword" 
(Acutally a "Bisento", an Asian Pole Arm) to Simon, and trying to get in 
good with the Wasteland Knights...

But first...  They'll meet up with an old foe of Mankind!!!  MUH-HA-HA-HA!!!

And, when they do, I can throw in a Dues Ex Machina (No, not the city) NPC 
to further them in the good graces of Simon and the Templars.  That way, it 
isn't stupid when they suddenly get asked to perform an important mission... 
  :-)

OK Ray, back on track...  The Maelstromes are, apparently, a side effect of 
the Ghost Rock Bombs, not just a Deadland.  As the Bombs MAKE a Deadland, it 
can be easy to confuse the two.  Naturally created Deadlands (Those created 
out of simple fear, not the detonation of a Nuke) don't have them.  If I had 
to make a ruling in game, I'd say that, first, the Fear Level of the area 
would have to be considerably lowered (Fear Level 1, maybe 2), and kept 
there for the time it takes for the Maelstrome to (Super?)naturally 
disperse, which is between 9 and 11 years on average (Larger bombs take 
longer, smaller ones won't, simple, no?).

In other words, a long, ardious task for even the best equipped Posse!!!

As the Maelstrome feeds off fear, the fact that the whole Earth is one big 
Deadland (Well, not really, but not that far off, either!), means that this 
just can't be done in ANY city (Nope, not even Boise can't help but have the 
occasional fear spike that'll kick the storm back to normal).

But that's just me...

Ray.

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