Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony

["Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>]

Sorry, but I have to chime in here.  If you're bored with this topic
already, just skip it.

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>>hell of suicides, boy we sure do like to think of hell in a very catholic
>>way don't we[snip]

[major snips for everything said so far....]


I'd like to throw in some thoughts here.  I think yall forget just what the
"Hunting Grounds" are.  From what I've read, they seem to be a dimension
that literally warps itself to whatever the viewer wants to see.  So in that
case, Vanessa Hellstromme is not in the Hell of Suicides because she was
from a Christian background.  Dr. Hellstromme does not fly through Hell
looking for a specific spot in Hell because he is from a Christian
background.  Here it comes..... don't blink....

Dr. Hellstromme perceives that he will find his wife in a place called the
"Hell of Suicides" because he believes he will find his wife in a place
called the "Hell of Suicides."  Isn't that simple enough?  It gets even
better; Dr. Hellstromme probably will never find his wife's soul because,
::drum roll:: he perceives this place to be hell, and probably subconciously
believes his own hell to be spent eternally seeking out his wife!

What does this all mean?  Good question.  Think of this "Hunting Grounds"
more like a malleable chaos--what you believe is what it is.  The bad part
is it might be tuned into what you FEAR it may be instead of what you WANT
it to be.  To have some fun with some players, I stuck them unknowingly into
the Hunting Grounds.  Since I perceived the strongest willed person was the
Mad Scientist from a Scottish background, they wound up in a densely
forested place which (after a while) he concluded was "Underhill."  Just to
enforce this concept, I had a poor soul burst out of the woods, frantically
running heedlessly through the forest, and having a group of large hounds &
horseback riders soon following.  Obviously, the doctor assumed they had
stumbled upon the Wild Hunt and stayed as quiet as possible while the
horsemen went on their way.

Had the Back East reporter been the highest will, I probably would've made
the place look like a deserted urban city, with R.O.U.S.es (Rodents Of
Unusual Size) scampering about everywhere, thrown in some strange sounds,
music maybe, whatnot....

At one point, I even toyed with the idea of just making it a flat plain, no
sun, no sky except for a grey overcast, no lighting except for the general
greyness, no sounds, not even their footsteps, nothing. May not sound like
it be all that scary, but if you're trying to get somewhere & there's
nothing, how do you get there? No distant mountains, no landmarks, just flat
ground.  That is what I see as being a true deadland.

Anyway, I'm just babbling at this point, so I'll stop.

Jeff S