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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