[Torg] Home Cosms

[Kansas Jim]

Steve Crow wrote:

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> I'm not sure I entirely follow that. A story seed can't spread outside 
> of the zone it's planted in, can it? Presumably you would have to plant 
> at least one story seed in each of the six zones supported by the single 
> stelae, to let the people in those zones survives the experience. Yes? No?

While some GMs play a bit fast and loose with it, by the rules a story
seed only applies to the stelae zone in which is is planted, and you can
only plant a story seed in the stelae zone where the Glory occurred.

> Also, what happens if you pull a stelae and eliminate a stelae zone, but 
> create a gap that separates an existing zone from a Maelstrom Bridge?

If they are not connected to a maelstrom bridge or to a stelae zone
where the Darkness Device is residing, then they'll collapse. (As
I recall, late in the war the stelae zone containing the Western Living
Land's bridge was uprooted, so essentially the entire realm was cut off
from a bridge. But the Darkness Device was present in the realm so the
realm was sustained.)

> Using the Aysle Sourcebook stelae map, you pull the stelae NW of the 
> Finland Maelstrom Bridge. And you pull the stelae WNW of that stelae. 
> That leaves the zone in the very northern most part of Norway with three 
> active stelae, but it has no connection to a Maelstrom Bridge. Assuming 
> that no one has spread story seeds or anything in this zone, what 
> happens? Do those stelae go inert? If so, what happens to the people in 
> that stelae zone?

I suppose 'inert' is as good a word as any, based on the example of
Operation: Central Fire the stelae would reactivate as soon as they
were connected back up.

As for the people, it'd be the same thing as if the zone collapsed due
to a stelae being yanked, unless they were sparked they'd be at risk of
death from a second transformation.

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