Re: [HoE] Throckmorton's automatons?

[Prince Nightchilde <nghtchld@gte.net>]

Don Schniepp wrote:

> >
> > Throckmorton means something to me, but it's related to a different game.
> >
> > In the game, On the Edge, there's a man named Throckmorton who created
> the
> > Throckmorton device which retroactively changed time to make him the
> ruler of
> > the world.
>
> Ah ha!  We all know that the PEG guys look at lots of other games besides
> their own and here's another example.  Here we have a setting where time
> travel is getting messy and the Reckoners are sending champions back in
> time to change events.  Maybe Hellstromme is playing with time too (he was
> around in the year 2000-whatever to build the Tunnel.  Hellstromme =
> Throckmorton. Or maybe a descendant or somebody.
>
> Don S.

  There's a couple of reasons that I think Throckmorton is Hellstromme....

#1:  He knows too much about Hellstromme's business from what I gather,
especially about his technology.

#2:  Hellstromme disappeared and Throckmorton showed up, right about the same
time.

Maybe Hellstromme learned Junking and changed his name to Throckmorton.
Or...maybe...Hellstromme became Harrowed somewhere along the way (would explain
why he's still alive) and Throckmorton is the "name" his Manitou took.  Maybe
Throckmorton is an automaton that Hellstromme created that gained full
sentience and killed Hellstromme.  Heck, maybe Throckmorton is an automaton
that Hellstromme put his own brain into.

Or, he could be someone completely different...

Just a couple of theories...I'm sure I'll run across more later, when I finish
reading the book.

Marshal "Conspiracy Theory" Nightchilde