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* I accept the fact that Stirling locked himself into a Nantucket plot from the word go, and so I can let slide things like completely ignoring the Amish in order to keep the place good and isolated. (I'm only starting ''Scourge of God'', too, so they might actually address that one.) But I draw the line at the horror elements: just how likely is it that the only survivors of the Dying Time anywhere east of Wisconsin were barely-verbal children?
** I'm not sure what you mean by berely-verbal children (I'm in the middle of reading The Sunrise Lands ATM), but the Amish (at least around nantuket) aren't a factor for the simple reason that they died along with everyone else after the waves of starving people from the nearby cities overran their farms.
* So to begin with, folks would attempt to study what the hell happened in the first days. [[Elfey]] was born and raise and went to school at Oregon state around the time the event happened. There are dozens of ways to probe the event and figure out what the new laws are with basement technology besides the wonderful high tech. OSU just happens to have a history of science department and makes sure to never throw out a tool that's useful and cost alot to buy back in the day.
** Continuing on, the plane crash near the start in Corvallis is all wrong, the planes do not fly that root, and even if they did use hydrologic controls to allow a soft crash. Also they are only blocks from the fire house, including a great hand pump water engine that's been there for years.
** Throwing the cars into the river is damn stupid. Pop em into neutral and roll em. Hard to move them over cement barriers anyways into the water. Besides, too few bridges in Oregon to make it more than an occasional hazard. For example, between Eugene and Corvallis are no bridges (30 miles), then a few in Albany (10 miles), and so on. If the cars died where they were, only a few should of been on bridges at night anyways. It's not like the bridges are packed. Thus, why the heck are the rivers not used? Riverboats and barges used to use the [
** Oh yeah the Mennonites. Way to miss the largest group around OSU, Mennonites who basically own all the land on one side of the river between Eugene and Corvallis. They are a higher tech branch, so they have tractors and cars and phones, along with keeping a large amount of horses and all their own food from their land. It would be tough, but they could survive the best of anyone, and be on a great stretch of trading.
** and why do phosphoric processes stop? Sure I'll buy gunpowder and other stuff, but phosphorus is kinda needed for ATP and animal life. Plenty of stuff to abuse that, or at least probe the boundaries.
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