Last Harverst?

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:13 am

TMLutas wrote:
maxgoof wrote:I know something about the collapse of Silver Springs, but I'm not telling, because Ralph hasn't completed the story of that, yet.

Suffice it to say that due to the nature of the terrain there, Silver Springs became agriculturally uninhabitable.

It *USED* to be the seventh village.
Can you share the reason for the name? Is the name from the color of the waters there or is it because it had a silver deposit?

I suspect it's the color of the water, but don't quote me. It involves a substance called Bauxite.

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Sat May 27, 2006 6:30 am

maxgoof wrote:
TMLutas wrote:
maxgoof wrote:I know something about the collapse of Silver Springs, but I'm not telling, because Ralph hasn't completed the story of that, yet.

Suffice it to say that due to the nature of the terrain there, Silver Springs became agriculturally uninhabitable.

It *USED* to be the seventh village.
Can you share the reason for the name? Is the name from the color of the waters there or is it because it had a silver deposit?
I suspect it's the color of the water, but don't quote me. It involves a substance called Bauxite.

Ah, bauxite, that explains much. It was a mining town.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:16 am

Interesting name..."scarlet plague". Sounds almost like a hemorrhagic fever. And it must have been bad if the elders are all little more than a century old in a species with twice that lifespan.
Wonder how it compares to the Black Death?

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:19 am

Must have been quite a collapse to render a mining town uninhabitable and unuseable in a society so desperate for metal as the Racconnan one.

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:47 am

I remember a western where some enterprising soul dug tunnels under a town to recover the gold dust that fell through the cracks in the floors. He had dug so many tunnels that eventually the town collapsed under its own weight.

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Sat May 27, 2006 9:06 am

Reminds me of a cartoon I once saw. A plane or airship is flying over a huge city with a big swelling in a river. The captain says "Yes, there is the site of the lost island of Manhattan. They just kept building skyscrapers and tunnels till one day the whole thing just sank."

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:37 pm

Actually, no. It wasn't a mining town.

Acolyte · Post by **Acolyte** » Sat May 27, 2006 1:45 pm

Fer cryin' out loud! Google for "silver springs". In RL, you can count on one hand the times a place is called that beause of actual silver.

EdBecerra · Post by **EdBecerra** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:05 pm

Squeaky Bunny wrote:I remember a western where some enterprising soul dug tunnels under a town to recover the gold dust that fell through the cracks in the floors. He had dug so many tunnels that eventually the town collapsed under its own weight.

We had a town like that out here on the plains of Colorado. The town of Galien, which was simply abandoned after it began to slide into a sinkhole that developed when the alkali salts under the ground dissolved thanks to water pumping and irrigation...

Maxgoof · Post by **Maxgoof** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:37 pm

RHJunior wrote:Actually, no. It wasn't a mining town.

Sorry Ralph. I don't want to let too many cats out of the bag, since I'm not even sure if the cats are *in* the bag, yet.

Hello, Shroedinger?

Anyway, please recall that the society, both inside and outside, are not that technologically advanced. It wasn't until the 1890's or so, that it was commercially smelted. Not that they couldn't before. It was just prohibitively expensive. Only the rich could afford it (hence some aluminum jewelry and armor worn by the rich before that).

But I'll let Ralph reveal everything in his own good time, since he could change stuff.