Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony

[Joey Fanning <wraith530@comcast.net>]

Back-East Reporter?  Mad scientist?  But where're the undead-omega
man-blessed-shootists?  What about the Cybernetically-enhanced shaman?  And
I haven't heard a thing about chaingun toting werewolves.

Your posse sucks.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Shoffner" <shoffner@esper.com>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [HOE] Unity Spoilers in Lost Colony


> 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]
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> [major snips for everything said so far....]
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> 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....
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> 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.
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> 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....
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> 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.
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> Anyway, I'm just babbling at this point, so I'll stop.
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> Jeff S
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