Re: [HoE] Partially digested answers

[AJSolis@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/16/99 1:05:31 AM Central Daylight Time, 
gill2158@epix.net writes:

> 
> The Reckoners couldn't send Stone back with a time machine because mad
> scientist gadgets are powered by manitous which is why they all stopped
>  working when the ghost rock bomb was invented.  Now if it took a
> significant amount of power from the Reckoners to send Stone back, there
> is no way that minor demons like the manitous can power a time machine.
    Actually, no.  At least as far as I know, mad scientist inventions were 
simply inspired by the Manitou, not powered by them, one of the major 
differences between the mad science of the mad scientists and the technomagic 
of the junkers.  Well, other than the ghost rock power source of course, but 
it would seem the Manitou really don't get much choice in that sort of thing.
    As far as I can tell, mad scientist inventions are real science, based on 
real principles, even if the mad scientist was told that principle by the 
souls of the damned.  So a time machine is a real piece of technology, just 
like a type writer, and the Manitou deciding they weren't going to play 
anymore should not have affected it one way or another.