Re: [HoE] LOST COLONY [SPOILER ALERT!!!] LOST COLONY [MAJOR SPOILERS - DO NOT READ]

["The Rusty" <therusty@vallnet.com>]

Tell you what, I f you are right, I promise to eat my hardback of HOE...your
postulation would REALLY disapoint me if it was true
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From: Damnaged Goods <jason@tanet.net>
To: <hoe@gamerz.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 5:31 PM
Subject: [HoE] LOST COLONY [SPOILER ALERT!!!] LOST COLONY [MAJOR SPOILERS -
DO NOT READ]


> THIS CONTAINS MAJOR, LIFE ALTERING SPOILERS, AND YOU ARE ADVISED NOT TO
> READ IT, LEST YOU BE A BADGE-TOTIN', PC SHREDDIN' MACHINE LIKE I HOPE YOU
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> Well, we know that HoE a possible future for Deadlands, right?  Well, I
> conted that Lost Colony is again, a possilbe future of Hell on Earth.
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> I mean, just think about it...  Ghost rock showed up there, as it did on
> Earth, true, but we do not know the true extent of the Horesemen's power,
> as of yet.  It could be that they have the ability to affect other worlds,
> other than Earth, but I doubt it.  My idea comes from this:  Hellstrom was
> a servitor of the Reckoners, and was granted incredible genious and power.
> There is a debate right now in this list as to if time travel is possible
> in HoE, and I have but to say, "Hellstrom did it."
>
> See, his portal he opened in space was not a gateway to another world, but
> a gateway to our own, in a time far off.  A time when the radiation that
> plauges HoE has died down, and the Malestroms have gone the way of the
> dinosaur.  Either that, or the entire world is trapped within a malestrom,
> which would explain the tremendous winds that earned the world its name of
> "Banshee...."  I contend that the "whites" of this world have left it
> entirely, and the only thing left behinde are the "savages."  In that, I
> mean the indians and the mutants.  The indians themselves have been
mutated
> into a purplish, wrinkled form of their old selves, along with a few
others
> I shall mention momentairily.
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> Also, I know I'm not going to mention all the things that have givem my
> posse and myself this idea, because I do not remember them all, but just
> bear in mind my theory, while reading any of the various HoE books.
>
> Skinnies:  The Skinnies are either long lived, mutated, undead Sykers,
> which I doubt, or Shamatic sykers who have ritualistically mutated their
> bodies in such a way to appear completely different from their unaugmented
> brethren.  Their is something different about them, though, thus
explaining
> their greater than your average syker abilities.  And no, I do not mean
the
> banshe stones, though I've something to say about that as well.
>
> Raven:  The Banshee stones are said to have an almost organic quality to
> them; that they are alive, in some way.  I've an explanation for that, as
> well.  Simply put:  Raven.  During his hundred year imprisonment, Raven's
> vile life force, energy, fluids, blood, or whatever permiated the stone he
> was bound to in such a way, as it took on a life of its own, eventually
> earning the name "Blood stone."  When he was freed, he promptly blasted
the
> thing into a million pieces.  If you've ever smashed a rock, you know that
> no two fragments are identical, and this is the case with the Blood
> stones/Banshee Stones as well.
>
> Grapes:  It is uncertain, and un-discussed, but I wonder if the Anouks
have
> anything to do with the Alien-Human hybrids living under the Devil's
Tower?
>  Perhaps they do....  Perhaps these hybrid creatures were eventually
> adopted into the various tribes of the Old wayers, and through natural
> selection, their descendants came to be called the Anouks of Lost Colony?
> It's ponderson, if anything.  Perhaps they are the skinnies?  And Perhaps
> they rebuilt the blasted out Devil's tower into the Castle Rock of
Banshee.
>  I think that is the right name...  If it is not, I mean the site of the
> major battle between the various Syker squads, especially the Wendigos,
and
> the Anouk Skinnies.   Hmm...  Interesting.....
>
> The Return:  Hellstrom successfully opened the portal to this
> futuristic/alternate Earth, and when the Sykers came back after the
finalle
> of the Last War, it closed on our end.  But, the Lost Colony end has
> remained open, and "something else has come through."  I haven't read
> anything that leads me to believe one thing or another about this, but I
> have come up with several ideas.  One being that Banshee is the absolution
> of Raven's plan to force the white men back over the ocean.  He succeeded,
> but not in driving them back over the Atlantic, but in driving them
> Off-World as well.  These strange things comming through the portal are
the
> whites returning to Earth, centuries after their banishment from Banshee.
> heh....
>
> I like the idea of this being the absolution of The Last Son's designs...
> That leads me to another postulation about the Return... Perhaps the
portal
> wasn't a portal in time, but a rift in reality...  Perhaps the Anouk world
> of Banshee is if things went entirely Raven's way, and Hell on Earth is
> what we think would be the natural evolution of the Deadlands dealings
with
> the Indians, and those of the Return are the citizenry of the "All White"
> reality comming to Banshee to do a little Ethinic Cleansing.  That sounds
> good to me.  Three Realities.  The Grape, Grey, and White.   Grey, as in
> Neutral, I mean.  Neither side of the Technology vs. Spirituality war has
> yet to win.  Who knows?
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> Now that I think about it, I'm going to post all this to the list, instead
> of Mass-Mailing it to those that said they were interested.  I apoligize
> for my earlier post, but I am fairly new to this list, and new to Mailing
> lists all together, and I didn't know what the <SPOILERS> Thing was all
> about.  Looks like I'm going to take Pat Phalen's Advice after all.  Sorry
> calabim69@hotmail.com, garganimal@yahoo.com, &
> skunian@insuranceholdings.com for your wasted effort in responding to my
> post.  Not really sure if my mail would of gone through to the Insurance
> holdings place anywho....
>
> Come to think of it, if I'm right, maybe Pinnacle will give me a prize or
> something!  Maybe a Job?  (o;  Truthfully, I'd really like to have my name
> printed in the Lost Colony Rule Book or something.  I can just see it
> now...  Jason Forster, the guy who spoiled it for everyone!  MU HU HU HA
HA!!!
>
>
>
> Jason the Deranged and Damnaged
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>
> BTW, I've not checked this for spelling, nor read any of the Fortress of
> Fear trilogy, though maybe I should.....
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