ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 15:46:47 CDT 2007


On 3/19/07, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In response to Mike Bailey:
>
> >>In the 'real' world of Against the Day, are there a lot of airships peopled by daring adventurer crews?
>
> >mos' def'!
>
> You seem so sure! I know the Chums have their Tetris-playing Russian counterparts, and there's that Penny Black and her crew... but is there any evidence that any of these sets of baloonists 'exists' outside of the Chums' world?

The evidence that the CoC exist in the "real" world of AtD is in their
interaction with characters on the ground in Chicago and elsewhere
(Merle, Dahly, Lew, etc.).  And it the CoC exist, what would be the
obstacle for believing that the other airship crews described exist?

David Morris



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