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March 6th
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March 6th
Anyone had any thoughts on what made this date right for Dark Day?
Was it PPE's blue cross sale day?
Was it PPE's blue cross sale day?
Re: March 6th
funny, I had the same thought / question yesterday and looked at the various stuff happening on March 6th throughout history...or maybe it's a riddle (3 x 2[000] = 6]? 
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Re: March 6th
Personally I think they just pulled a date out of the hat.
The below is what I found in 5 min using google.
March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Clean Monday, the beginning of Great Lent
Fixed commemorations
All commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Old Calendarists
Saints
Martyrs Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, and Basoes, in Ammoria in Phrygia (845)
Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, monk (4th century)
Martyrs Conon, monk, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270s)
Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria
Saint Fridolin, abbot and enlightener of the Upper Rhine (6th century)
Monk-martyr Maximus
Martyr Euphrosynus
Martyr Julian
Saint Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk
Other events that occurred on 3-6-xxyy
The below is what I found in 5 min using google.
March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Clean Monday, the beginning of Great Lent
Fixed commemorations
All commemorations below are observed on March 19 by Old Calendarists
Saints
Martyrs Constantine, Aetius, Theophilus, Theodore, Melissenus, Callistus, and Basoes, in Ammoria in Phrygia (845)
Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, monk (4th century)
Martyrs Conon, monk, and his son Conon, of Iconium (270s)
Martyr Abraham of Bulgaria
Saint Fridolin, abbot and enlightener of the Upper Rhine (6th century)
Monk-martyr Maximus
Martyr Euphrosynus
Martyr Julian
Saint Hesychius the Wonderworker, monk
Other events that occurred on 3-6-xxyy
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Re: March 6th
Quote from Wikipedia: March 6th is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years).
Maybe be the author was using the whole '666' thing - 6th day of the month, 66th of the year (2000 being a leap year).
Maybe be the author was using the whole '666' thing - 6th day of the month, 66th of the year (2000 being a leap year).
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Re: March 6th
drewkitty ~..~ wrote:Personally I think they just pulled a date out of the hat.
me too - especially when considerung the two mistakes on pages 7 and 22 of the rulesbook that place DarkDay in May 2000. so, I guess, the author's first choice was May 7th before he changed it to March 6th.
still, it is fun to find an in-game-explanation for the date.
by the way, I stumbled across this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day recently - quite interesting...
Edit: oops. there is already a thread dedicated to New England's Dark Day.
"My own big mouth causes me trouble too. You see, people are always asking me what 'I want' to do next or have planned for the future. Like an idiot, I blather on about some idea I've been kicking around or I'm dying to do."
- From the desk of Kevin Siembieda, The Rifter 12.
- From the desk of Kevin Siembieda, The Rifter 12.