[HoE] Throckmorton strikes again!

["Sandor Silverman"<sandor.silverman@bender.com>]

     >      Ok, this has been bugging me since I first read it.  This is a
     > mouthful.  There's got to be some hidden secret here that we are 
     missing > that's staring us in the face.  I spent a bit of time 
     yesterday trying to spell out Hellstromme using "Throckmorton's 
     Automatons" to no avail.  I'm sure I will kick myself when I find out 
     the secret here.  Does the name Throckmorton mean anything to anyone?
     
     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.  Anyone that didn't conform to his worldview 
     was summarily crushed.  It was a very mind-trippy thing....children 
     would be born and named after him (even before he was born), for 
     example.  Time itself would change in subtle ways around the PCs.  :)  
     It was great.
     
     When I first saw the name "Throckmorton" I thought "Uh-oh, someone's 
     been playing On the Edge," but I didn't mention anything.  :)
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     Jeez... this is a weird coincidence.
     
     I played pretty much every session of Deadlands I could get into (a 
     lot!) at Origins this July, playing either a shyster or a huckster, 
     and just for silliness every character I ran was named Throckmorton! 
     (I just like the name.)
     
     Each character was a big mouth with "Big Britches" (unlike me! 
     *snort*) and would go around in a bad H.Ross Perot imitation all the 
     time announcing his presence:
     
     "This is J.C. Throckmorton, and I demand to know what's goin' on!"
     
     "This is J.C. Throckmorton, and I demand you throw down your guns!"
     
     "This is J.C. Throckmorton, and I have just the patent medicine for    
      what ails ya!"
     
     "This is J.C. Throckmorton, and I require a room for the night!"
     
     I got a lot of weird looks from the PEG Marshals. I thought they were 
     simply astounded with my awesome role-playing abilities. I guess they 
     were probably just wondering if someone had leaked me any HoE info and 
     I was being a jerk about it! 
     
     -Sandor 
     
     I must be one of those unconscious psychic-types. Yeah, that's it.