Re: Unhuman War

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From: Wilson, M.D. <Hemlock@????.net>
To: spelljammer@????.com <spelljammer@????.com>
Cc: spelljammer@????.com <spelljammer@????.com>
Date: 02 March 1998 17:36
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] - Unhuman War


>[snip]
>>cave they find tertiary WM and kill it, losing a goblin and an orc.
Then
>they
>>continue and find the sleeping primary marauder and a secondary.
After a
>>hard-fought battle the war priest manages to immoblize the primary
with magic
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>With third-level spells? IMHO, they more likely used paralytic
poison.
>
>I agree with your basic premise--that the WM were found, not
>created--however, consider how lucky the orcs would have to be to
find the
>primary & co. between the time they arrived on the planet and the
time when
>they multiplied an hundredfold and devastated the planetary ecology,
>including each other. It's possible, but unlikely.
>

The idear that the orcs found rather than created the WM is
interesting but it still poses the question if not the orcs who or
what did create them.

>Perhaps they were found on a "tubeworld." That is, a world which
isn't a
>great globular ball but instead a tangled rats-nest of spaghetti-like
>strings surrounding a primary. Because WM can't fly, they can't
spread
>geometrically as they could under standard conditions, and the
devastation
>is limited to their walking speed. When the orbit alone is 300
million
>miles along the edge, that's a lot of walking; and most times, the
tubes
>will be snarled enough that the actual "length" of the world is far
>greater. You could drop a WM on one end, and four hundred years later
they
>would still be munching their way methodically along the rim.
>
The 'tubeworld' is a very intetresting concept if you have anything
more on it I for one would be interested in hearing about it.