8FOLD/ACRA: Jolt City # 22, "October Surprise!" (Part 1 of 3)
Tom Russell
joltcity at gmail.com
Sun Jul 27 19:14:01 PDT 2014
On Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:37:43 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
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> * "Day of Terror" seems more like "Day of Panic" to me. I know
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> "terror" and "panic" are nearly interchangeable words according to the
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> dictionary, but Jolt City seems enough like The Real World (tm) that
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> "terror" probably is used only for "terrorist attack". Absent the
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> "attack" part, even the panic would be a temporary thing. The probable
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> public reaction would be to put on tinfoil caps and carry on.
I was using it in that sense, and not the "panic" sense; I think engineering a mass-- if perhaps temporary-- panic to crack open the walls of the universe to allow eldritch abominations to come crashing through worldwide would constitute a terrorist attack. :-)
> * It was a nice touch to have the Mob War end by Part 2 of 3 *and* not
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> draw Our Heroes in. Things aren't always about Our Heroes, but they are
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> always about Jolt City.
Thanks.
==Tom
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