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I'd be sure to kick in!

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On Fri, 3/11/16, Knapp <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] EMP protection under a volcano?
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, March 11, 2016, 11:31 AM

 Start a patrion
 accounnt. You might get enough supporters. I think most like your work.

 On Mar 9, 2016 8:50
 AM, "Timothy Collinson" <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk>
 wrote:

 On 9 Mar 2016 03:00, "Tim" <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 wrote:

 >

 > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:58:39PM +0000, Timothy
 Collinson wrote:

 > > Yes, this is supposedly surviving the Maghiz.  On
 Spume, Jump-1 from

 > > Darrian.

 >

 > I'd not worry about any sort of physical
 plausibility.  The Maghiz EMP

 > crossing interstellar space to eventually damage
 equipment on all the

 > colony worlds parsecs away is way more implausible than
 anything

 > you'll ever write.  Whatever it was, it was not an
 electromagnetic

 > pulse.  Those are subject to inverse-square law.  So
 just make your

 > rock something that protects against that
 particle-of-the-week and

 > you're fine.

 >

 >
 LOL!
 That's always good to hear - although to
 the bounds of my knowledge that there's an issue in the
 first place, I do like to see if I can put something in
 place that has a ring of plausibility to it in case any of
 the players ask.  ISTR the TML being a great help for
 example with the brown dwarf science back when I was doing
 Into the Unknown.
 I know it won't satisfy those who *really*
 know their stuff, but for the majority of us at least having
 something that sounds like a 'thing' helps with the
 investment in being there.  As it happens, no one in that
 first trial even thought to ask so I didn't make a big
 deal of it.
 For anyone who is interested, after my big
 sleep post TravCon16, I sat and wrote some 5500 words of
 Ashfall III yesterday (not quite equalling the record of the
 day after TravCon12 when I knocked out the first 7000 words
 of what would become Into the Unknown), and it is now really
 beginning to feel like something that I could send to
 Mongoose.  Hopefully with all three parts it will be
 sufficiently long enough for them to use. (Though players at
 the convention did sow the seed of a possible
 'prelude' adventure set some 2000 years before. 
 And this morning I thought of two other related scenarios
 that I might insert as possibilities). 
 Good job I've got one more day off work, if
 only I could retire to do this full time!  I'd still
 like to get my adventures from TravCon13 and 14 into print.
 But I'm not a great completer-finisher.
 Thanks again

 tc
 PS love Bruce's idea of the Maghiz
 propagating through Jump space!

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