[HoE] LOST COLONY!

[DAMON SUTTON <d.sutton@lancaster.ac.uk>]

BRAH-VO!!!!!!!

		<Applause applause!!!!>

I LOVED IT! it was much better than Cats!

	That Lost colony idea was cool enough and roundabout enough to be 
great, and within genre.  
	I'd like to throw my own two cents into it too.  You see, I like 
the idea of the Anouks being just mutants and etc who have survived, BUT 
skinnies as mere mutated sykers?  Hmmmm, how about this..
	
	The difficulty for the reckoners is that Banshee isn't the sort 
of nastyville they want it.  Perhaps it's a LIGHT future, where the 
reckoners have been defeated and the anouks are too low-power to do the 
sort of high-octane destruction and terror-forming the reckoners wanted, 
so they died out (they would be in ancient anouk stories, but myths)
	You have your Anouks (far future mutated humanity) and they're 
doing their native nature thang, and the settlers arrive.  So the 
settlers arrive and being pushing the natives around.  Now we know the 
Anouks had some magic, but were totally out gunned.  
	The Anouks need help, and their leaders go spirit questing for 
help and these leaders meet some very unsavory beings in there (don't 
know if the reckoners would be it, but something unsavory and very 
powerful).  And these beings give the leaders the ability to funnel power 
to complete extremes to fight off the settlers.

	As always, there's a catch.

	From the few descriptions of the Skinnies and Anouks, Skinnies 
are weaker when alone and the Anouks fight like demons to protect them.  
I think the skinnies are some sort of Anouk abomination that pulls its 
power from the life-force of the anouks around it.  The more anouks, the 
more power they have to funnel syker-abilities.  They're sort of grand 
high ruler-priests surviving off of the pain, fear, and essence of their 
people, but the anouks need them too badly to make the hurting stop.

	And for banshee stones, I think they're a kind of mineral 
annointed by the skinnies for more power.  But they have to be powered 
somehow, Blood from a living sacrifice would do it.  They probably have 
an anouk soul inside them.  

	Got more power, got war, got terror.  

	I definitely think Hellstromme's gonna figure this out, come back 
to HoE, and impliment the plan to create the transition (I think 
Hellstrome's going to turn on his masters, Raven did). Thus Hellstromme 
both detroys, and saves the earth from the Reckoners (that is, after he 
figures out Banshee's secret and the menace there is stopped).