[HoE] Re: forgotten history?

[Frederick M Zeleny <zeleny+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Excerpts from mail: 8-Mar-99 hoe-digest.19990308 by hoe-owner@gamerz.net 
> Oh, now_come_on_!  Dropping hints as to the next Dime Novel is one thing, but
> this is just uncalled for!  We all have a very limited amount of Strain over
> here, and we're just about out from using it on "Contemplate Teaser".
> However, I for one have Fortitude, and am more than willing to mull this one
> over.  Anyone up for some fruitless speculation?

Fruitless speculation?  Always a favorite pasttime of mine...

Be careful, this may have spoilers in it...

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Actually, I was suspicious about this sort of thing ever since the "No
one seems to remember when the Mason-Dixon Wall was completed" bit in
the posse section of the Wasted West book.

Since I never really kept up on the Great Rail War (I'm a player in my
friend's Weird West game, so I don't read much of the past info), I
can't make any claims about the GRW or the eventual Civil War end.

However, I dare say that there are certain events in history that were
so totally influenced by the Reckoners that, in order to keep their
existance at that precarious level between secrecy and common knowledge,
the memories of those involved had to be wiped.  Perhaps this worked
along a sort of Delerium/Mists of memory sort of effect, perhaps to
cover up obvious reckoner monstrosities.   Not that WW2 would have any
shortage of abominations: Hitler would certainly make the grade for a
servitor of War or Death, and for the truly horible: massive flesh
golems of zombified concentration camp victims.

Actually, the most reasonable bet would be that the universal memory
loss is the result of a highly successful piece of revisionist history
(with the mind-affecting powers that are found in Movietown movies and
the like).  Especially a documentary on television or movie (Evil,
manipulative version of Schindler's List?).  These could have removed a
person's knowledge about the invasion of America, but would probably
have still left a vague sense of unease over the subject (just about
right to draw a little bit of fear from the populace).

Or, of couse, it could all be a cleverly set up way for the writers to
come back to potential plot lines when they're good and ready... 
Although if I see an adventure called "Attack of the Time Nazis", I may
be ill...

Fred Zeleny

Hell on Earth Quote of the Moment:

"The blackhat's weapon's getting warm?  Wow, it's even got a built-in
hand warmer!"
    -Final words of Ned the Gun Nut