From: Thomas Barclay <Thomas.Barclay@s...>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 02:59:21 -0500
Subject: Lord save us from....
1) GZG LARP. If I see a LARP crowd at ECC, I'm getting some tabletop gamers,
setting up a hasty ambush, and setting off a CDM. That ought to calm them
down. If not, the wargamers among us will have to back off to orbit and Nuke
the Hotel.... it's the only way to be sure.
2) A rampaging Atkinson. We all know why. ("Able to leap (or at least
deconstruct) tall buildings with a single bound (or charge), faster
(on the draw, at least in e-mail) than a
speeding bullet (and just as sharp), bulletproof (or insensate, one of the
two), and known to have a fatal weakness to Kryptonite (aka certain kinds of
appealing fiction, such as Romanic successor states)"). The dog ain't
sleeping, but let's let him lie. Or maybe feed him a pile of tranqs.:)
3) Historical arguments over 1 ACW.
The 2 ACW, which is entirely fictional, would probably be more interesting to
argue over. Anyone thought about who fought on which side? How the course of
the war brought General Parham to ask for UK aide? How that aide was spun such
that every 'Merican didn't rise against the "Tyrants from Across the Sea"?
What did Canada do while the US was tearing itself apart? Just throw up a
border? Were we overrun by US refugees? Were we a base locale for one faction
or the other? How did Mexico figure in? Were any NBC weapons used? Etc.
Probably far more interesting for the GZGverse crowd than arguments that sound
like they should be on some rec.history.boffin list....
Just my 0.02, out of the blue.
BTW, does anyone realize eventually their will be
a GZG FultonCon in Tasmania - they'll have
enough gamers they won't even NEED to invite anyone from anywhere else.....
(And even with all those kids, Beth will still be the Queen of the single
pip.... apparently Kochte's Probability Skew Demon is more of an individual
curse than a genetic inheritance....
either that or they inherited their die-luck from
their dad).