RE: After the fall

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:52:04 +0100


> The Lunars probably slighted the walls, but I doubt they'd
> have bothered to
> do a whole salt the earth, Carthago delenda est type of work
> on it.

Agreed - no point. Redundant.

> It might look something like Osgiliath in
> the LotR movie or Stalingrad from Barbarians at the Gates.

I'll have to re-watch the first - never seen the second.

> I'd mark up a map
> with probable Meteor targets. These would be glassy slag
> surrounded by total
> devastation, with bands of less ruined buildings surrounding
> them. I tried
> to get the map off the wiki to do it myself, but it's not there - I'm
> getting a missing picture icon for it.

It worked for me, so I've sent the map by private mail.

http://www.runegate.org/whitewall/wiki/The%20City

Not that many of the magical targets seem to be on there. Air temple (Orlanth, Vinga, given the view, probably Rigsdal), yes, defined. King's Citadel, defined. But very little else.

Would the city wyter/defences have multiple sites, and if so, where? Six directions?

> The Lunars might have left a small garrison to make sure
> rebels didn't come
> back immediately, giving rise to a whole "forgotten garrison"
> tangent to the
> place (Khartoum, Fort Zinderneuf, Fort Apache...).

A nice idea, though not what I'm after here. If someone else wants to take it and play, though....

> I doubt that anyone other than rebels or soldiers would move
> back to the
> place - we have already established that it's not a good
> place to make a
> living, so the "normal folk" won't be coming back.

Exactly - so when I was asked for ideas on Rebellion hideouts and bases, 1624-1625, this was somewhere I thought of.

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