[UA] The Metal Eaters (was Steampunk)

[Gareth Hanrahan]

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:33:54 -0700 (PDT), ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:
>   > It depends, of course, on how long it takes the
>   > gadget to duplicate.  If
>   > it's eight hours, that's a lot less menacing.  It's
>   > still an item with
>   > tremendous potential for harm though.
>
>   You bet your butt it is.  If you catch it within 24
>   hours, you might be able to contain the situation
>   (assuming you can find the three other "lonely
>   lunchboxes.")
>
> But at the end of one day there aren't three.  There are eight
>
> after eight hours 2
> after sixteen hours 4
> after twenty four 8.
>
> Geometric progression means geometric progression.  In any case it would
hit
> critical mass with less than a week (even at eight hour progression, one
> week is 2 to the 21st power that's 4096 little gizmoes.  Lets imagine that
> they only weigh four pounds each.  That's over sixteen tons of little
metal
> reproducing lunchbox.

Wacky variant: they're not lunchboxes, they're a bit bigger. In fact,
they're cars. Imagine the PCs wandering the streets of some big city by
night, being hunted by urban predatory machines who blend right in with all
the parked cars....

Gar
http://www.mytholder.f2s.com


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