From: wolf@cheshire.oxy.edu (Clinton Richard Wolf)
Subject: Re: GenCon Report (Incredibly long, thousands of spoilers)
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:47:57 GMT

In article <gatemail1.0b2381415218083@morticia> "James H. Kiley" <jkiley@andy.bgsu.edu> writes:
>	_Interview With Evil_, by John Terra, the autobiography of the Gaunt
>Man, that's right, autobiography.  Covers from the time he met Heketon to the
>conquest of his first cosm.
>	_Berlin Rezoned_, also by John Terra.  Jez decides she wants to expand,
>lays down some stelae around Berlin and gets one yanked by Doc Mobius, leaving
>Berlin as a Tharkold/Nile mixed zone.  Nifty.
        
        Hmm. Malraux is gonna have a COW about that. Jez and Mobius both right
on his doorstep?!? Ooph. :)

>
>
>New Good Guy:
>	Something to do with the 5 Realms game.  Email me privately for more,
>I promised not to blab.
>
        Argh! The Five Realms is such an idiotic idea! Torg within Torg within
Torg within.... bleah! Thumbs down...
>
>What about the Living Land?
>	Consider it GONE by Spring.  No kidding.  The Land Below has already
>begun to erupt up into the Eastern Land, it will start to burn out LL stelae
>before too much longer.  Reality Trees which will have been planted in some
>LL zones will keep Major Catastrophes from occurring to any PC's but [Editor's
>note: This is IMHO a major cheese as I Loathe Reality Trees.  But
>anyhow...] we can consider Baruk Kaah as good as dead.  Unsure as to the
>fate of Rec Pakken.
>
       Oh, #$@$% ! I had just had this wonderful idea for an adventure in the
LL (I was inspired by the legends surrounding Crater Lake, which I just visited )... Got all the maps and guidebooks, and then was gonna sit down and write
an LL adventure to knock everyone's socks off and show the potential it could
have! (IMHO) ... And now they're just going to up and abort it. Feh. They real-
ly sort of wimped out on this. I loved the concept of Keta Kalles, and the
races (Edeinos, Stalengers, Benthe) were fascinating too. Lanala, we hardly
knew ye <sniff>...
       
>Which leads us to the upcoming Pocket Dimensions SB, which will come about
>as a result of the surge of Possibility Energy from the eruption of the
>Land Below...  Note also that NYC will become LB, at least partially because
>Greg Farshtey thinks it'd be pretty nifty to see NYC under the influence
>of the Law of Wonders...
>
 Hrm. Could be interesting...

>
>Jezrael novel in the works.  Jez apparently will start to have an affair with
>Someone Important in the wars soon.  I don't know who.
>
 Well, we missed two (maybe three) possibilities...

1. Thratchen (ooh! How techno-horrific!)
 
2. Whoever becomes the LB high lord (Damo Kil or Hadian Fel Ar, probably...)

or... 

3. The Gaunt Man himself!!!! :) (hey! who says the old geezer doesn't still
have what it takes! ;)

   Of course, Jez and GM making out is not something I'd want to know about,
much less witness! (think of Ferocity, Pain, Domination, Fear, and Corruption
being used in... oh never mind. God I'm a sick puppy...)

>There is a cure in sight for the Comaghaz plague.  Apparently the
>Tharkoldu possess it. :)  It was also mentioned that it is possible for
>the Comaghaz group mind to be fought from within, apparently a Lorbaat is
>doing something along those lines now (?) (my notes are unclear here,
>Ashwath, Mikey, anybody clarify?).
>
 Lorbaat the Hut, perhaps? ;)

>
>Kansas Jim, Greg got your Thratchen stats and seems to intend to put them
>in the next Iverse update.  But don't quote me on that. :)
>
>(Kansas Jim's name got a smattering of applause at the seminar from all of the
>Usenet folks in the audience.  You're a guru now... :) )
>
 All hail KJ!!! :)
>dungeon someplace.  Before long expect to see all of Aysle Dark but for
>Oxford and one other adjacent zone which I didn't write down in my notes.
>
 Ouch.

>Novel:  _Bug Hunt_.  Marines from Camp Pendleton in LA. :)
>
 Good! Let's get away from the awful CoD concept of Tharkold and back into fer-
ocious, lurking, alien SF horror again! :)

>Details about Malraux's anonymous DD will be in Iverse Update II.
>
 Could someone post the stats for the DD's that I don't have (I'm not an Iverse
subscriber...) . I'm missing Kefertiri and Rec Pakken...

>The Pocket Dimensions SB will contain a Toon cosm.
>	
 Argh! Have them buy rights to 'Cool World' and use that. Any other Toon cosm
just isn't evil and scuzzy enough for TORG...

>Italy is in a three-or-four way struggle with the CP, the Nile, and the NT
>Yakuza starting to infiltrate the Mafia.
>
 Yes, but the Vatican SS should turn the tide! :) (That was one of my favorite
illustrations from the DC worldbook...)

>A Star Sphere SB is in the distant future iffy-plans category, but don't
>count on it soon as WEG is apparently putting together a new
>science-fiction space opera style game.
>
 Yup. This is exactly how I thought of the Star Sphere. Just Star Wars with
Ancient Incan overtones... C'mon, the Gudasko are carbon copy wookies... and
they do have that 'Smuggler' template in the SG sourcebook :)
>
>The CP stelae in the Mediterranean will get activated soon, they were not
>destroyed.  Activation of stelae on Crete has brought the Greek Gods back, and
>of course, Pluto's going to eventually ally with Mobius.
>
 Hmm. Interesting. Grecian soldiers with machine guns, now...
>
>	Expect to see Orrorsh in New Orleans and maybe the Nile in
>Chicago, after the LL is removed from the field.
>
        Amazing! Either WEG is reading my mind, or I theirs, because I thought
New Orleans (and the West Indies, for that matter) would be perfect sites for
Orrorshan expansion (to heck with the CE Voodoo rules... Orrorshan occult w/
a twist does just as well, with much nastier effects! ;)

        I suppose dropping NE into Chicago is a natural, considering the gang-
ster/detective part of that genre... but I suspect it's just part of a plan
to get all the Major cities in the US scooped up by realms...
>
>	Whew.
>	I'll post a review of High Lord Theater tomorrow.  I didn't take notes
>on that one.
>
        'High Lord Theatre'? Sounds interesting... Did anyone ask about a TORG
boardgame with each player taking the role of a high lord. Someone was discus-
sing it a while ago and I thought it was a neat idea... The TorgMUSH guys cer-
tainly seem to relish their roles ;)

         On an unrelated note, I'm going to be starting up a campaign this
Saturday, starting about a month into the war, using the Destiny Map adven-
ture as the beginning (ancient history, eh?) ...
         So there's two things I wanna know...
         The Nippon tech oilrig in volume two (the Possibility Chalice) seems
to be within Orrorsh stelae boundaries... but is it in Dominant Core Earth,
or Mixed Orrorsh/CE?

         Also, I never bought the SK guide (kick! kick!)... could someone post
a summary of the optional rules contained within (or e-mail me)... if it 
would take too long, don't bother... just a request...

         Anyone going to Strategicon?

-- Clint


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