8FOLD/ACRA: Jolt City # 22, "October Surprise!" (Part 1 of 3)

[Scott Eiler]

On 7/27/2014 7:14 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
> On Sunday, July 27, 2014 7:37:43 PM UTC-4, Scott Eiler wrote:
>>
>> *  "Day of Terror" seems more like "Day of Panic" to me.  I know
>> "terror" and "panic" are nearly interchangeable words according to the
>> dictionary, but Jolt City seems enough like The Real World (tm) that
>> "terror" probably is used only for "terrorist attack".  Absent the
>> "attack" part, even the panic would be a temporary thing.  The probable
>> 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. :-)

Well, this is where terminology fails us...  Killing your enemies in the 
names of your gods is a terrorist attack.  Actually *delivering your 
enemies' souls* to your gods is more of a coup.  8{D>

>> *  It was a nice touch to have the Mob War end by Part 2 of 3 *and* not
>> draw Our Heroes in.  Things aren't always about Our Heroes, but they are
>> always about Jolt City.
>
> Thanks.

And that earlier conversation reminds me of a comment I'd forgotten to 
make.  Any city where a story can start out about a mob war and end up 
with an terrorist invocation of elder gods is pretty impressive.

I have to admit, the most imagination *my* terrorists have shown was to 
steal a time machine.  But that *did* give me a chance to explore how 
alternate pasts can lead practically back to the same present. 
(http://www.eilertech.com/stories/2007/raleigh.htm, The Siege of Raleigh.)


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(signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> -------- http://www.eilertech.com/ ---------

When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.