RE: [HOE] Quick question.... (Got spoilers now...)

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

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The Manitou are whispering ideas of new inventions to the Mad Scientists
of the 1870's and on.  However, they get their info by traveling forward
in time... To when the Last War started.  Actually, they are travelling
backward from the Last War to the 1870s.  So the coolest stuff that they
can hint about is stuff they've seen, which is only slightly more
futuristic than the stuff we have now in real life.  Why aren't Manitou
from farther into the future whispering anything good?  Because the
future that Stone made happen pretty much ended technologically with the
Last War -- no one is inventing new stuff, so the Manitou have nothing
to say.  The Reckoners just needed to get the Last War to happen on
their cheatin' second trip thru history, so Stone kills good guys and
Manitous try to steer scientists into building the Atomic Ghost Rock
Bombs that they know can be built.  All this is explained better in one
of the Green Books, but I don't recall which.

Jeff Y.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net] On Behalf Of
Dirk
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:35 AM
To: hoe@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [HOE] Quick question....


I believe it was once stated that real science couldn't be derived from
Mad Science because it was magical in nature. Also, a lot of the real
scientists of our time probably went the way of the mad since it was
easier, hence the slow down in real technological advancement. Imagine
this, you are a scientist drawing upon the work of hundreds and
thousands of other scientists in your field. Now imagine that the number
of other scientists is only a handful and ask yourself, how much would
your work be slowed by not having other sources to work with.

--Dirk

Jeff Shoffner wrote:

> I've been meaning to ask a question on the HoE section that may be 
> answered in the books, but since I only have "the two" rule books, I 
> don't know......
>
> Considering all the funky gizmos in DL Weird West, why are all the 
> guns in HoE so normal?  Where are the laser pistols & the plasma guns,

> & hyperspace grenades, & such?  Yeah, these things would most likely 
> be gizmos too, but the manitous were whispering into the Mad 
> Scientists' ears right up until they stopped, right?  So shouldn't 
> there be some really cool gizmos out there?  Even better, since this 
> stuff got a leg up during the 1870s, shouldn't that give the sane 
> scientists enough time to study the gizmos, & have them make sensible 
> items out of them?  (ie: gizmos with a Reliability of 20)  Like the 
> Deep Space Nine actor says in that commercial:  "It's now the 21st 
> century.  So where are the flying cars??!  I was promised flying 
> cars!!!!"
>
> Jeff S
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