Re: [HoE] Some non-DP comments and questions...

["Justin Bush" <jbush0@email.msn.com>]

>>Regarding Fear Levels . . . why are they as high as they are in most of
>the
>>Wasted West?  A bunch of Deadlands, and high Fear Levels everywhere
>else.
>>It seems that in the 200 years or so since the Weird West, people would
>have
>>gotten use to horrors, undeath, magic, etc...  I can see why the 4
>Horsemen
>>and Nuclear War would frighten people, but not monsters, etc...
>
>   Nuclear War and the Reckoners are the main reason for the high fear
>levels.  After seeing North America leveled with Nukes, I suspect my
>fear would rise as well.  Not to mention all the abominations that
>sprung forth due to the radiation.  As a child of the 80s and late 70s,
>the threat of nuclear war was very scary to me...


I agree, and can see how that would raise fear level.  But a supernatural
horror?  If I'd grown up with them for 200 years, I think I'd begin to get
used to them.  There are some very tangible horrors in our history, such as
serial killers, that I'm fairly use to.  Even though several serial killers
have struck in my local area since I've been alive, I've never been _too_
frightened (I'm considering my local area a fairly broad part of
california).  I've just grown use to the possibility.

>  There's a difference? Anything that causes a fear level to rise is a
>fearmonger- this includes abominations.


Not saying that I disagree (or agree) with you, but I don't think this is
necessarily true.  It has been the subject of much debate on the Deadlands
listerv as to exactly what a Fearmonger is.

>>It seems like it would be hard to scare a survivor of 200 years of
>horror,
>>and several years of Hell.
>
>   You are assuming everyone in Deadlands lives on to be in HoE.  This
>isn't the case.  Most of the people in HoE remember the world pre-bomb:
>Technology, space travel, microwave ovens... and then one day BLAM, you
>find yourself killing over a can of beanie-weenies.  Again, scary stuff.


I'm not following you on my assumption.  What am I assuming?  I know that
most of the people pre-2081 are no longer around, as a result of nuclear war
and the Four Horsemen.  But for the people, the war is over and the Horseman
have vanished.  I agree it would be frightening, but I would think that the
fear levels would begin to steadily decline.

Justin