[Mkguild] Fireworks and their alternatives

[Mark Lowell]

Actually the 'fireworks' weren't rockets but magical lights and fire
that the mages created.

On 8/27/08, Stealth <stealthcat15 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 8/27/08, C. Matthias <jagille3 at vt.edu> wrote:
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> > > Ok, I would like to mention first that the story in which the guns are
> mentioned 300 years in the future isn't fully canon. Any story that contains
> major issues from a sufficiently far enough time into the future is
> considered an 'optional' future. It's the future that particular person
> envisions, but it's not set in stone like the rest of the 'current'
> archives. Matthias' future =/= Raven's future =/= the future someone (I
> think Stealth) thought of with steam engine technology, etc. So while there
> are guns 300 years in Matthias' future, they are not set in stone. I agree
> that with no guns there would be no 'gunpowder' per se, but the idea of
> powder that explodes would certainly exist, especially considering the
> fondness alchemists have for stuff that goes boom. It's not a very big jump
> from there to stuff that goes boom in pretty colors.
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> > > Yep, the steam engine tech was mine, though it was more to do with air
> ships. Aside from that, I thought Matt's future in LTOY was the official
> future setting. So I guess any future is only ever intended as a non-canon
> setting? Because that sounds great, I can go nuts with my own vision without
> it affecting anything!
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> > Everything I write for Metamor Keep is leading to the future I envisioned.
>  Other futures are still plausible, but I think that a lot of the elements
> I'm suggesting should be considered canonical.  I imagine in 300 years a
> sort of technology as existed during the late Renaissance would abound.
> Steampunk style MK would probably ensue after that because of the presence
> of magic that could be imbued in technology.
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> > Of course, that's cause I like steampunk too. :-)
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> > You'll note though, that in my 1000 CR scenes, I don't actually establish
> that much.  Muskets are still very primitive at that point.  The Hassan line
> is now the ruling dynasty over a united Midlands.  Cheskych is the captial
> of Vysehrad, a kingdom in the eastern Flatlands.  That's about it
> geopolitically.
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> It's not the future I envision. I'll consider some elements but if it isn't
> canon then I'll pass on that setting.
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> > May He bless you and keep you in His grace and love,
> >
> > Charles Matthias
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