Re: Outer Atomic Exploration

From: Guy Hoyle <ghoyle1_at_airmail.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 08:27:57 -0500

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>Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:29:12 -0400
>From: Carl Fink <carlf_at_panix.com>
>Subject: Outer Atomic Exploration
>
>On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 Guy Hoyle <guyhoyle_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Last Saturday, in Sandy Petersen's RQ campaign, we finally located a
> ship for
> > some stranded Outer Atomic Explorers, which enabled them to return to
> the Void
> > beyond the world (long story, mostly weird and confusing) . . .
>
>Just out of curiosity, was this at all inspired by my years-ago
>posting about an Outer Atomic Explorer-based scenario? Sandy
>commented positively on it at the time.

I'll have to ask him; he didn't mention it at the time, and this was the very last thing that happened before we broke up on Saturday.

>I don't remember the Ban being timeless: those inside of it
>certainly remember years of imprisonment, after all, except for
>Rathori who slept.

Well, something funky was going on with Time here; the Outer Atomic Explorers had returned from a trip into Chaos and had landed in the wrong Age, after all, and time doesn't appear to exist at all in Chaos. They ejected our escape pod when they were about to enter Chaos again, and we were apparently out of sync with Time (can't remember Sandy's exact words here). That we might be trapped in a pocket of the Syndic's Ban may be my conjecture, as well. "Timeless" was my adjective, I believe.

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