heartburn was: Re: travelling north

Roy C. Lackey · 13 Jun 2010, 21:48 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:48:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) heartburn was: Re:  travelling north
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Jeff Wilson quoted and wrote:
> > Obviously it would be bad for the newly-created eidolon, because he
would
> > cease to exist. That eidolon walked the Corridors to get back to Ushas,
> > where he eventually penned his second manuscript, the account we are
reading
> > of how he came to be in that tomb.
>
> Why couldn't the eidolon stay at the stone town and the strangled meat
> go back to the future?

The strangled meat didn't know what the eidolon knew; all that had just been
learned from BF&O in the tomb. The eidolon had to get away from him or die.

-Roy

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