Ishpeming

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:01 am

Is there a book about ishpeming? i mean a focus not a just a general type thing like in the first book.

Dustin Fireblade · Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:03 am

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:10 am

well........ :ugh:

is there a book that addresses a lot about Ishpeming then? How about NG?

Dustin Fireblade · Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:24 am

Only what you have seen in the RMB, Aftermath and the blurbs in various books here and there.

Sureshot · Unread post by **Sureshot** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 1:04 am

Maybe Todd or Carl can write a book on them. They both did a great job on their books. Next To lazlo I consider these two areas that must be made into sourcebooks A.S.A.P.

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:27 pm

Janissary wrote "Fine idea, one that should have been done a LONG time ago. Perhaps if we are lucky someone at Palldaium Books will hear you and decide to make one."

so where do i write this so they see it? :demon:

Sureshot · Unread post by **Sureshot** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 5:33 pm

Larsen wrote:Janissary wrote "Fine idea, one that should have been done a LONG time ago. Perhaps if we are lucky someone at Palldaium Books will hear you and decide to make one."

so where do i write this so they see it?

Forget that send two very large and angry looking men in pinstripe carrying guitar cases and have them deliver the message :lol:

.

MADMANMIKE · Unread post by **MADMANMIKE** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 6:01 pm

..There was a bit on New Cedarville in the Manistique Imperium in the Rifter #4, in the official expansion on Archie-3 and Titan Robotics...

-Mike >8]

Sureshot · Unread post by **Sureshot** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 11:45 pm

MADMANMIKE wrote:..There was a bit on New Cedarville in the Manistique Imperium in the Rifter #4, in the official expansion on Archie-3 and Titan Robotics...

-Mike >8]

Forgot about that thanks for the info. I would like to see Archie-3 get his own book. At the very least another update like they did in the Rifts Mechanoids book.

Mack · Unread post by **Mack** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 1:21 am

Larsen wrote:Janissary wrote "Fine idea, one that should have been done a LONG time ago. Perhaps if we are lucky someone at Palldaium Books will hear you and decide to make one."

so where do i write this so they see it?

In real letter, like on paper and stuff.

Vrykolas2k · Unread post by **Vrykolas2k** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 12:25 pm

Mack wrote:
Larsen wrote:Janissary wrote "Fine idea, one that should have been done a LONG time ago. Perhaps if we are lucky someone at Palldaium Books will hear you and decide to make one."

so where do i write this so they see it?

In real letter, like on paper and stuff.

Ewww... hard-copy... yuck.

At any rate, ya the idea is a good one to have Lazlo/ new Lzlo/ Ishpeming, et cetera in a world-book... been wanting to do something in the New lazlo area for some time now...

Sureshot · Unread post by **Sureshot** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:37 pm

Nightshade wrote:A Lazlo world book should be coming out this year but I highly doubt that it will feature any info on NG and MI. KS is more likely to stuff it to the brim with magic items, spells, weapons, D-bees, character classes, NPC's, and cities.

I think NG and MI will require a book all it's own focusing on Hi-Tech weapons, equipment, mercs NPC's and groups, etc.

I quite agree. The only way they could fit that all in one book is if they made it similiar size to the Book of Magic. I rather see all three areas given their own book.

GaredBattlespike · Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:00 pm

I would like to see a book on Ishpeming/NG/M.I.

I'd pay real good money for a decent book. My preference would be along the lines of the Vampire Kingdoms.

It should contain local population info,society info and a few examples of local maps (Which should include any major Ley Lines). If it had these things, I'd be willing to pay about $25-35 easily!

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:27 pm

Yea it does, I knew it was cold there and there would be snow but being a southern boy and having only seen snow 3 times in my life I really didn't know much about it. Thanks that'll really help.

MADMANMIKE · Unread post by **MADMANMIKE** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 4:37 pm

..I'm probably alone on this, but I think a sourcebook on the two would be perfect for some more mundane equipment lists, a compendium of minutia from a future tech society.

..Ads for the latest hover van, vid shows, kitchen utensil, etc. A real taste of the sheltered life in a big city PA....

-Mike >8]

Larsen · Unread post by **Larsen** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 1:15 am

hehe mosquitos.....if you don't like big annoying constantly biting mosquitos here well then you shouldn't go outside ever. It usually doesn't get below 40 degrees F here. the mosquitos are aound for 7-9 months out of the year. But I do appreciate the info for the summers up there.

Otter · Unread post by **Otter** » Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:06 am

Other things/places of interest in the Manistique Imperium:

Michigan Technological University in Houghton. Seems like a great place to (somewhat) survive and either remain an educational center, or become a research/tech center. (www.mtu.edu for the full list of degree programs).

Copper mines (only one working, though, I think?) are all over the Keweenaw Penninsula. Gotta wire up all them electronics, and maybe by the Rifts era there would be economic/social/political reasons to re-open them. And what might one find in those deep hard-rock mines? (insert evil laughter here) There's also a gold mine.

I remember reading in a Michigan Sesquicentennial book that large portions of the UP were also productive croplands, after being logged off. What's 'taters, precious?

Having got my Bachelor's at Da Tech, married to a man who grew up in Houghton, and having many visits to my grandmother's in Gladstone (next town up the Little Bay DeNoc from Escanaba), I have to disagree with Septicrazor on the climate - yeah the winters are cold and snowy, and its normal to want a jacket in the evenings in summer, but summer spring and fall all exist.

The Mosquitos, Blackflies, and No-See-Ums really *can* be that evil,

but not all summer long. In Gladstone, with few swampy areas around, they weren't nearly as bad as they can get here in the modern Chi-Town 'Burbs. Its not the soil itself, its the cedar swamps out in the boonies.

plata_knight · Unread post by **plata_knight** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:53 pm

PKAGustov wrote:In a real life side-note (slightly OT), I once asked a girl I worked with, who was from Michigan, if she had ever been to Ishpeming. She was shocked I had even heared of the place. Thanks Palladium, yall really made my day.

That's amazing! The same thing just happened to me two weeks ago! One thing about Rifts, you learn alot about geography.

(maybe not accurate geography...) :lol:

Spook · Unread post by **Spook** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:11 pm

Living in metro-Detroit it is very funny to think of the UP as one of the great bastions of civilization in North America.

Come on the Northern Gun and Manistique need a sourcebook.