[Torg] Home Cosms

[Travis James Hall]

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> From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com 
> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Steve Crow
> Sent: Monday, 13 July 2009 2:57 PM
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> Subject: RE: [Torg] Home Cosms
> 
> > > (I was never entirely clear how a maelstrom bridge's "landing 
> > > triangle" could generate a dominant zone anyway, though...)
> > 
> > A dominant zone is just a zone that is fairly rich in 
> Possibility Energy.
> > Granted, zones touched directly by Maelstrom Bridges may 
> well be drained
> > faster generally, but why couldn't such a zone be a dominant zone?
> > 
> > Travis
> > 
> 
> That would depend on why the area a maelstrom bridge touches 
> down on is typically (not always) a pure zone in the first 
> place. Once we know that, we know why or why not certain 
> areas become dominant instead.

Well, my guess would be as I mentioned above - zones around Maelstrom
Bridges probably just experience a stronger axiom wash, accelerating the
conversion of the population and subsequent PE drain, and bringing the zone
to a pure state faster. A dominant zone with a Maelstrom Bridge would just
be an area where the conversion wasn't fast enough for it to have become
pure yet.

> Although I would have thought the area by the Oxford bridge 
> would be pretty possibility-energy rich. Or New York City.

IIRC, the earliest stelae maps given are from three months into the
Possibility War (the default starting time for play groups). You can't
really draw reliable conclusions concerning the original conditions of these
areas from those maps. There are too many variables - when that zone was
established, disruptions to the flow of PE up the bridge during that time,
whether the Darkness Device has taken steps to accelerate the rate of drain
in that area, probably quite a few other things besides. Oxford might once
have been a highly PE-rich area, but maybe the Darkness Device and the High
Lord have deliberately made sure it isn't now.

Or maybe these places were not PE-rich areas. Maybe Oxford was a bastion of
Earth's core reality, but wasn't particularly conducive to *changing* that
reality. Remember, PE helps contradict the local reality, not enforce it.

Travis Hall