[UA] The Metal Eaters (was Steampunk)

[Cassady Toles]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 23:34:42 +0100, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  > 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....
  
Of course then you'd have to slow the reproduction rate even moreso or there
wouldn't be any normal cars to hade among...

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