From: smooge@jupiter.nmt.edu (Stephen Smoogen)
Subject: Gencon and other neat stuff...
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:29:35 GMT


I just got back from the University of Wyoming for a weekend visit
(are there any TORGers there for me to see my next visit.) So I have
been going through the 150 messages since the last time I had read
mail. I won't do the stupid thing and reply to all the interesting
ones since that would fill up about 50 messages...

But here is my general input.

1) Gaunt Man coming back...
 He is going to have to face 3-4 new high lords in my campaign. One is
of course Jezrael. The other two are going to be player characters
becoming High Lords. Soren the mage will probably become the new
highlord of the Cyberpapacy as he wants to make it into a Technomagic
realm (he has been planning this for a lot longer than Tharkhold has
been out.) I also have a good feeling that my Jaz fighter will not
turn down being High Lord of the Aztec Realm.  She is destructive
enough to be good HL material. If this happens I will probably have
Orrorsh in a lot of turmoil as Heketon must pick a new highlord.

2) Any real info on the cyberpapacy? 
 Malraux has sit on his butt to long which is why I am going to let
Soren try to take over... Unless WEG has some nice plans that I
like... Malraux will either bump the spiritual axiom up to 17 by
invading Spain and Italy and losing it =) (He has been allowing tales
of glory to fill the people of France so they wont explode as much
plus all the ords will be drained giving Croix a lot of energy) OR
Soren will become High Lord and lower the spiritual to 12 and bump up
magic to 14.

3) Living Land...
 I was planning to have Barruh Kaah to be deposed (but not killed) by
someone from the Land below and all the western stelae to be used to
lower the spiritual axiom to 22 and bring up the magic/social and tech
axioms to something reasonable. This would allow for the super
miracles that everyone has been writing lately and for different
religions to exist without contradiction... Then I was going to have
the new LL invade the brazilian rain forests... in the way that Rick
said. Everyone would think that the LL was destroyed and slowly it
would begin to gain enough territory in SA to become a later threat.

4) Tharkhold/Nile in Berlin...
 As Oakes pointed out... my "munchkin" campaign was aiming for
something like this already... (I will admit that a single player
killing 2 seperate Tharkholdu is kind of munchkinish.. but he does have
a years experience and they were just Thark deckers so they dont get
anything but world laws on their side.)

5) Jez's new boytoy...
 From the novel it will probably be a cheap Mobius relationship (ick..
so lame that only WEG would do it.) I personally hoping for a
relationship with GM since he is everything that she desires (so close
to the Nothing).

6) The Gaunt Man and the Nothing...
 He probably begant to believe in it when it came out of the mirror
and ate the universe for an instant... he probalby has a plan to have
all these powerful stormers (with 2-3 years of experience) go through
a long adventure series of tasks so that he can build an occult device
that sends the Nothing into Aperios getting rid of his to biggest
threats. He will then rule the cosmverse as Torg...

well enough prattle I have been in mail shell for 3 hours now...

the Smooge

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