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sable twilight
post Feb 17 2004, 09:53 PM
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I love this description DV8 gave of the Puyallup Barrens in a post that was recently made:

QUOTE (DV8)
In my campaign at the moment, the runners are stranded in the dead middle of the night in the Puyallup barrens, having to hoof it all the way back to downtown Seattle, through one of the most dangerous territories in the Seattle sprawl; a wasteland of broken buildings, soot and ash covered streets, with dense urban centers with claustrophobic mazes of alley-ways as well as wide open stretches of bubbling, boiling mudplanes left over from the eruption of Mt. Rainier.


But some things about it just seemed odd to me.

I cannot remember the exact Shadowrun time line, but hasn't it been at least 20 to 30 years since the Mt. Rainier eruptions? I can understand Puyallup not being rebuilt, but I do not understand why the streets would be soot and ahs covered still. I would think most of it would have either settled into new level of topsoil or blown away? Just look at the Mt Saint Helens eruption and how quickly the land around that started recovering.

Also, Rainier's got to be a good thirty miles or so away
Mount Rainier National Park - Map
I admit my ignorance when it comes to the dynamics of geothermal activity here, but would there still such hot spots so far away from the mountain?
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- sable twilight   Puyallup Barrens   Feb 17 2004, 09:53 PM
- - Sunday_Gamer   The bulk of Puyallup is a Z-Zone, no one is going ...   Feb 17 2004, 11:26 PM
- - Crimson Jack   Damn. That's a long way on foot. I live up i...   Feb 18 2004, 01:48 AM
- - FlakJacket   Well does it say hoof all the way? I'd think i...   Feb 18 2004, 01:52 AM
- - Solstice   soot an ash doesn't have to mean from the erup...   Feb 18 2004, 02:51 AM
- - Rev   Its supposed to be a giant mud flow from Rainier. ...   Feb 18 2004, 03:07 AM
- - Solstice   John, You scare me. That is all.   Feb 18 2004, 03:15 AM
- - grimshear   Then again, if the Mount has continued to sort of ...   Feb 18 2004, 05:07 AM
- - Sunday_Gamer   Yup, sometimes, it snows in Puyallup... and this s...   Feb 18 2004, 06:04 AM
- - Solstice   QUOTE (Sunday_Gamer) it's all Mad Max Beyond T...   Feb 18 2004, 06:11 AM
- - DV8   From what I can gather... QUOTE New Seattle, p. 6...   Feb 18 2004, 08:50 AM

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