Re: [HoE] Lost Colony: A Theory

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 08:39 AM 9/14/99 , you wrote:

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>My two cents, with a little bit of off topic technical goobing:
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>On Lost colony:
>Interesting.  Not sure if ya'll are right, or have too much free time (like
>I can talk).  I have a couple of theories on where Hellstromme is
>(firebringer, the doomsayer, from HOE?), but Lost colony has not been one
>of them.  AS for the aliens, that has been a weird subplot for the last
>year.  I have wondered whether they were the servants of the reckoners or
>not, or anything like that.  I will reserve judegement on anything further
>until next year.
well, on the free time note: no, but it was really, really late at night. 8-)



>on to devil's tower and HOE: I have a bit of a continuity prblem.
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>Stone uses a ritual at the end of devil's tower to turn the area into a
>deadland if the heroes lose.  In Jackie's description of the history of the
>tower, she says that the diamond that the scientists use to activate the
>time portal was found used and drained on top of the mesa (where stone did
>the ritual).
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>This seems to mean that in HOE, stone completed the ritual.  Otherwise, how
>was the diamond used and discarded on top of the tower.  Someone (Jo, I
>believe) even says that the area was turned into a deadland sometime in the
>late 19th century.
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>But, if the heroes succeed (which is the "official ending"), Jackie takes
>the untapped diamond back to the future, so it never exists drained to be
>found on top of he mesa.  Quantum physicist I am not, but a bit of a
>paradox exists here, yes?
thus the HoE is alternate idea. Jackie Wells does not vanish if stone 
loses.  hence that "future" exists in some way.



>Top that off with the fact thar in Wasted West, Jo says that the tower was
>destroyed in the last war, some 13 years before jackie wells and the
>scientists were to open the portal.
that is answered in WW, where it says that the tower re-grew.

Jason,
Da Baron