Re: [HOE]

[john tfs <johntfs1@yahoo.com>]

--- John Constable <jconstable@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, john tfs wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > One question that I've seen regards the
> > Prognosticator's prediction of a world barren of
> all
> > life.  I think that Raven plays into it, but
> perhaps
> > not in the way that some folks believe.  I have
> some
> > ideas about how it all ties together and will get
> into
> > that in just a little bit.  For now, be aware that
> > I'll be including MAJOR SPOILERS FROM THE UNITY
> > adventure below.  Be also aware that some of my
> > speculation might hit fairly close to the eventual
> > truth.  Those folks not wishing to be spoiled
> might
> > want to hit the 'delete' key right about now. 
> > Everyone else, c'mon down.
> > 
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> 
> snipping some major league thinking here..
> 
> > Another thing to consider is the state of Raven's
> > personal power level.  Much of his power was
> derived
> > directly from the Reckoners.  Since those worthies
> are
> > a) very weak (relatively), b) very far away and c)
> not
> > very found of Birdboy, Raven's powers will most
> likely
> > take something of a nosedive in the fairly near
> > future.  The worms could help, if they chose. 
> Since
> 
> not nessacerily, Raven chose the wise precaution of
> binding his power to 
> his coup stick, so it cant be taken away again...
> 
> > they've seen how Raven serves his "bosses",
> though,
> > this seems less than likely.  Aside from that, the
> > worms can't get behind Raven's whole "kill the
> planet"
> > idea, since they need humans for food and more
> > wormlings.  Life certainly won't be fun for humans
> 
> I'm sure I read an inference that they are breeding
> on thier own now, or 
> was I just making this up, or inferring stuff that
> wasn't there?
> I thought the Worms had found the new race they
> needed in the wormlings..
> so they dont need people anymore, which is why they
> are so happy to help 
> out Raven..
> 

Nope, wormlings are made from people.  Sort of like
Soylent Green meets some truly sick tentacle Hentai. 
The process is detailed in the HoE Screen adventure.

> > 
> > Raven could certainly attempt to go to Banshee,
> but he
> > can forget about taking his army with him.  He
> might
> 
> does anyone else have the refain going through thier
> heads:
> "and the zombies went in two by two, hurrah,
> harrah!"?
> as raven marches his undead through the portals..
> 

Not sure exactly what he'll do with what, maybe 12 of
them?  Any more and he attracts a bit too much
attention from the locals.  

> > go to Banshee and scout out the situation, but I
> doubt
> > that he'll attempt to directly confront his former
> > masters.  Especially since he won't know how to
> kill
> > them.  I suspect as well that the
> Reckoner-servitors
> 
> if he finds out they're servitors, he might just try
> the "throw buckets 
> full of undead at them" strategy.  hey, its worked
> before..:-)
> 

He might.  There's probably quite a few corpses left
over from the previous battles against the Anouks. 
However, I have serious doubts that the depowered
Reckoners will be the main threat of Lost Colony, at
least at first.  Sure, they're nasty and invulnerable,
but there's got to be more to it than that.  

> > will be truly immune to all attacks except for the
> > one, specific weakness that can destroy them (no
> > Evenor shortcuts for these guys).  
> > 
> > 
> > Let's look at a group that got pretty well left
> out of
> > Judgment Day 2 - the croakers.  You guys remember
> the
> 
> ack. I'd forgotten about them...
> 
> > croakers, right?  Big, green, toothy, live in vast
> 
> > Speaking of stuff that happened many millennia
> ago, at
> > one time Way Back When, the Reckoners sentenced
> > Something Nasty to Life Without Possibility of
> Parole,
> > and then only because they didn't have sufficient
> > whup-ass to administer Capital Punishment (they
> didn't
> > have Old Sparky back then).  Anywho, they stuck
> this
> > Thing in a special cage (made from anti-magickal
> ore)
> > under Montana (specifically under Blackleaf
> > Correctional institute, the Agency's prison for
> "weird
> > stuff").  Figure the Fab Four had rather a time
> > sticking their "inmate" into its cell.  I suspect
> that
> > it was a pretty awesome battle, maybe even enough
> to
> > cause "changes in the earth's tectonic plates" and
> > thus pave the way for mankind to arrive on
> earth...
> 
> I like the way you think.  or, rather, I dont...:-)
> 
> 
> > Once the Demon-goddess gets free, all bets are
> off. 
> > The Reckoners are gone.  The worms are still just
> > beginning to acquire true power again.  The
> > Demon-goddess will have a bit of a warm-up session
> > exterminating (most, except for the croakers and
> > Raven) life on earth, then she'll head to Banshee,
> 
> not sure about this..I mean, whats in it for
> her...she just wait until 
> they return through the portal, and, in the immortal
> words of Lister 
> "twats them"..
> 

She's been choking on her own seething hatred of the
Reckoners for a loooonnnggg time.  Patience isn't
going to be a factor.  Aside from which, wouldn't the
best time to confront them be before they get their
power back?

And she might not even kill them.  Something(s) that
can only die only one way can be made to suffer for a
long, long, long time...

> > BTW: I put this together based on information from
> pp.
> > 96-99 of the HoE Shattered Coast sourcebook and
> from
> > pp. 113-114 of the Cyborgs sourcebook.
> 
> I need to go back and re-read these.. I never want
> you as my GM BTW... :-)
> 

Moo-hoo-ha-ha...

> 


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