Re: John's stuff

[Rob <rob@aclcb.purdue.edu>]

Oh yeah that was a pretty spiff idea.  I keep forgetting why you don't do it


Steve Ames wrote:

> In character for a long time I've been planning on building "The Road".
> (Quite all of you groaners who've heard me ramble on before about this).
>
> Basically a circle of otherworlds to other worlds (suprise) that we
> can trade with...
>
> Centralia-->Attalia-->World2-->World3-->Centralia
>
> Since these are other world hops you could conceivably get more
> than one spot on Jaern (just not sequentially). Basically Each spot
> would be a 60' road and then into another portal.
>
> ----------------|-------------------|
> Road on world3 /|\  Road on world4 /|\
>                 |                   |
>              Portal              Portal
>
> Just a matter of eeps and much trade negotians with various worlds
> and their governments... but huge profit potential.
>
>                                                 -Steve
>
> > you have out posts on other worlds.  These also double as trading posts.
> > You have the natives trade there and then cart the stuff through
> > the portal to other worlds.  That way the natives never use
> > the 'magical portal' and learn of its mysteries.
> >
> > Wright
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steve Ames wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Warring over the nexus is by deffinition starting a war on Multiple
> > > > > fronts.  It destroyed Napoloen.  It destroyed Hitler.  Think your a
> > > > > better military geneous than that, go ahead and give it a try.
> > > >
> > > > Except its not. You just need to hold the physical spot where the
> > > > nexus resides.
> > >
> > > How can you hold it when you have no idea of what can come through it?
> > >
> > >
> > > > You don't need to carry the war through it.
> > >
> > > You do if you wish to have any advance warning of something bad about to
> > > happen.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Whatever
> > > > denizens on the other side of the portals probably don't care
> > > > what happens here.
> > >
> > > They most likely would if they knew that someone could take one location
> > > and have near instant access to their back door.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Also... any battle front coming through the portal
> > > > comes in 10' waves... then they have to crall across baracades and
> > > > live through the fireballs as they swim across the moat.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry.  What baracades?  What moat?  Who's throwing the fireballs?
> > >
> > > > Be real.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It's a FANTASY club.
> > >
> > > >                                           -Steve
> > >
> > > BJ
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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