Re: John's stuff

[Joe Gregorovich <delmar@ameritech.net>]

There is at least one inhabitant in the sky city, I put him there as a
character action under Dan. How did the others die???

Greg Mowczko wrote:
> 
> > From: Wright Frazier <khelek>
> >
> > How do you hold it?  Fairly easy, establish a base on the other end of each portal.
> > Further there is still the sky city inside to house the garrison at.  Just keep
> > a small group at each portal exit then keep patrols ranging around the other side
> > and it wouldn't be that hard.  And with the trade benefits you'd get of being
> > able to contact all those other worlds, it would be SOOOO easy to pay for
> > all the soldiers.  It'd take a few thousand guys, but it is certainly
> > doable by someone serious about the matter, as any nation or city-state
> > bent on becoming a nation would be willing to commit.  Or a trade city
> > with a shload of money could do it as well with mercenaries.  *shrug*
> > Hell, one of the worlds might contact a hive of intellegent insects who
> > just breed the warriors.
> >
> > Wright
> 
> Ahhh I have time to post about this ( which no one else has followed up on).
> While the sky city maybe inside the portal there is no way to get on or off
> of it. All the inhabitants that were there died. There is no INSIDE the
> portal per se. You have the flutist play the tune and then you step through
> and appear on the other side. It would have been really nice if the Nexus
> was actually a nexus and not a doorway with multiple exits. I picture a
> nexus as a pocket dimension that has doorways to other dimensions all
> connectiong to a central hub of paths to the other doors.
> 
>                                                         Greg