Re: [HoE] Skinnies [SPOILER] [LONG]

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

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From: IronPen@aol.com <IronPen@aol.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Monday, March 22, 1999 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [HoE] Skinnies [SPOILER] [LONG]


>What with Brainburners out and all, I think it's high time to start some
>completely inaccurate musings on Lost Colony and the intriguing mystery of
the
>Skinnies.  Before I go any further, some spoiler space is in order...
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>2)  The relationship between Ghost Rock and Sykolite is key.  Sykolite's
>secret is kept in much the same fashion as ghost rock's was, and I suspect
>ehy're very similar.  They both whine, produce incredibly useful effects,
and
>are somehow alive.  From Brainburners, we are told: "...sykers [who use it]
>are draining life force [strain] from something else"  Not someONE else,
>someTHING else.  I'll bet that's deliberate.  Brainburners also declares:
>"...[the sykolite gives off] actual life energy".  We also know that Strain
is
>life energy.  Finally, we know that they can be recharged, but PEG isn't
>saying how.  That means it's important.    I think it's safe to assume that
if
>there was a way to recharge Ghost Rock, it would be either the exact same
way
>to recharge Sykolite or the exact opposite.  Ghost Rock gives off a loud
moan;
>Sykolite gives off a soft one.  Ghost Rock provides energy for vehicles;
>Sykolite provides energy for living things.  So, an analogy presents
itself:
>Feul is to vehicles as [BLANK] is to living things.  Fill in the blank, and
I
>think it'll be a major clue.


Ghost Rock is evil souls trapped in coal but it said in Branburners that
Sykolite is alive, as in a crystaiod lifeform. Like Sykers and Doomsayers
(both alive) regenerate strain. From this I see Sykolite like a tree, living
and able to regenerate like other living things but posesing no
intelligence.

>4)  The skinnies didn't appear on Banshee (to the humans) until a war broke
>out.  Also, unlike human magic users, they appear radically different from
>their brethren.  Sykers' hair falls out, but the skinnies appear to be
>entirely warped.  Perhaps the Syker hair loss (which is never adequately
>explained) is just a minaiture version of what happens to the skinnies,
whose
>entire bodies become emaciated.  Now, it states in Brainburners that all
>anouks have minor powers, similar to the skinnies, but much less potent.
It
>also states that syker powers are genetically determined (as in, peopel who
>can be sykers have that potential from birth).  If anouks are, as it would
>seem, a race that has a genetic code which is much more condusive to syker
>powers, then could the skinnies ismply be their verisons of sykers?  I
doubt
>it.  My guess is that skinnies are the product of living on a planet ripe
with
>Sykolite, which brings me to my next meandering point...

>
>5)  Banshee is described as incredibly, indescribably old, even by
planetary
>standards.  This implies that it predates the Earth.  The aliens from
Fortress
>o' Fear also are very, very old.  The connection has to be there somewhere.
>The FoF aliens are definitely aware of Banshee, because the final attack on
>the Unity was their doing (I'm almost certain of it, although it's never
>overtly stated... but who else lives in outer space in the DL universe?
It's
>unlike PEG to throw in a random player in events like this).  I'm going to
>guess that these incredibly powerful aliens and the skinnies are somehow
>related, and that anouks are also at least distant cousins.


Actually I just looked at the picture of Skinnies and the cover of FoF and
the resemdalince is scary.

>6)  Now, how does all this tie in to the Reckoning?  To me, this is the
>biggest mystery of all.  The rest of the puzzle can be guessed at with what
I
>hope is some accuracy, but this continues to confound me.  What the Hell
are
>the Reckoners doing in outer space?  Thus far, they've been pretty Biblical
>about the whole process, and the Bible mainly concerns Earth and the
heavens.
>I doubt that even PEG would allow aliens to inhabit heaven, and Banshee's a
>far cry from the afterlife anyhow.  We know that the Reckoners planted
Ghost
>Rock on faraway to lure the humans there, and that was premeditated.  Why?
>Somethign there (other than the skinnies) must spell doom or salvation for
the
>humans, otherwise the Reckoners wouldn't have bothered to exert so much
energy
>getting them there.  It has somehting to do with all that Sykolite, but
what?
>Well, if Ghost Rock is made of tortured souls, then perhaps Sykolite is
made
>of pure Hunting Grounds-type energy?  That seems a little weak to me.  Any
>ideas here?


I was thinking that the Hoursemen didn't lure humand to Faraway to save or
dam the humans. They were interested in the Anouk but couldn't scare them or
get a good enough foot hold there. So enter the spooked humans and a gate to
Faraway from Earth. I think maybe the Unity got hit as it came through the
gate to Earth as the Hoursemen where on their way to Faraway.

An Interesting thought but I don't concur on all the facts with you.

Christopher "Taking my HoE characters back to the stars soon" Merrill