RE: [DL] the problems Manitou face (slight spoiler)

[Wes Anderson <wes.anderson@lucasfilm.com>]

If I put you in an open courtyard with no way out with 6 other guys giving
you no information at all and then one of them suddenly gets shot without
warning, how do you feel. 

Far more scared than if the courtyard seemed deadly! If I shoot a couple
more shots an miss people its scary, but again not as scary as if one of you
is already dead so that you KNOW that it could be you next.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Downs [mailto:knick_nevin@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: deadlands@gamerz.net
> Subject: [DL] the problems Manitou face (slight spoiler)
> 
> 
> something occured to me awhile ago, an unpleasant
> truth regarding Deadlands, something I quickly pushed
> to the back of my brain because I didn't want to think
> about the implications, and I decided not to discuss
> it with others, but someone I was explaining Deadlands
> to asked me about it yesterday so now I feel I should
> address it:
> the Manitou/Reckoners feed off fear and their power is
> derived from fear, yet they do all these things that
> kill people. when you kill someone then the fear that
> they are generating stops, so why would the Reckoners
> and by default the Manitou be trying to make the world
> more deadly? 
> wouldn't they want it to SEEM more deadly?
> if your posse are inadvertantly raising the fear level
> (as my group has done from time to time) wouldn't the
> manitou want to keep them alive so that they can
> generate more fear?
> likewise, if a mad scientist creates a gadget that
> actually helps the manitou, wouldn't it have NO
> reliability check (until it no longer served the
> manitous' purpose)?
> I could keep asking questions ad infinitum, but I
> think you get my point.
> any thoughts?
> -doc
> 
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