City of Whykin
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:01 pm
So there's a paragraph in the main book and a some more info in Juicer Uprisings. Has anything else been written on Whykin?
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Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 1:25 pm
Aftermath, page 144. Though its nothing new. Some additional text there on Missouri may have some effect on Whykin however.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:00 pm
Question: Is Whykin an actual city in Missouri or is it a ficticious creation? I'm curious, and the net's acting funny so I can't check Mapquest, nor do I have any US Atlas's lying around. Thanks, I appreciate it.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 4:27 pm
Shin Kenshiro wrote:Question: Is Whykin an actual city in Missouri or is it a ficticious creation? I'm curious, and the net's acting funny so I can't check Mapquest, nor do I have any US Atlas's lying around. Thanks, I appreciate it.
I think it was built over another city, the name escapes me now. Poplar Bluff is what I'm thinking but that might be Kingsdale.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:17 pm
Kingsdale was built on the ruins of West Plains, Whykin on the ruins of Poplar Bluff.
..I've got a proposal for a source book on Whykin, with a detailed history and background, as well as several OCC ideas, but I don't have the time to follow up on it.
..Something to consider however is it's location puts it in the proposed path of a new superhighway set to be built in around 2015 or so; it's supposed to have a couple of freight lanes with minimum speed limits of 85mph.
..If this were to be built, the city would have a boom before 2089 when the rifts hit, making it a major population center.
..Of course, it's less than 70 miles from the New Madrid fault line, so the original city is likely to be reduced to rubble by the cataclysm's earthquakes, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be a huge population of "survivors" trying to make a stand in the ruins.
..perhaps it's proximity to the magic zone and the Gateway Arch would make it a several generation life and death struggle against the monsters, explaining their anti-D-bee stance.
..My background has an ironic twist to it, but I think I'll keep that to myself for the sake of a potential future project...
-Mike >8]
..I've got a proposal for a source book on Whykin, with a detailed history and background, as well as several OCC ideas, but I don't have the time to follow up on it.
..Something to consider however is it's location puts it in the proposed path of a new superhighway set to be built in around 2015 or so; it's supposed to have a couple of freight lanes with minimum speed limits of 85mph.
..If this were to be built, the city would have a boom before 2089 when the rifts hit, making it a major population center.
..Of course, it's less than 70 miles from the New Madrid fault line, so the original city is likely to be reduced to rubble by the cataclysm's earthquakes, but that doesn't mean there wouldn't be a huge population of "survivors" trying to make a stand in the ruins.
..perhaps it's proximity to the magic zone and the Gateway Arch would make it a several generation life and death struggle against the monsters, explaining their anti-D-bee stance.
..My background has an ironic twist to it, but I think I'll keep that to myself for the sake of a potential future project...
-Mike >8]
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 1:26 pm
I'd love to see that, Mike. 
Re: City of Whykin
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:52 pm
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:So there's a paragraph in the main book and a some more info in Juicer Uprisings. Has anything else been written on Whykin?
Yea, I wrote a massive section on Whykin in my Missouri project that I'm trying to get submitted. However, unless it actually gets published, it's not canon.
Dustin Fireblade wrote:Aftermath, page 144. Though its nothing new. Some additional text there on Missouri may have some effect on Whykin however.
Unfortunately that is not canon material. Those are only possible adventure suggestions.
Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 10:03 pm
I've used Whykin as a setting a couple of times. Kind a dirty town with black smoke bleching factories and a intense political situation. They manufacture a few bits of MDC technology, laser rifles (L-20 from Rifts Main) and simple body armors, as well as are armed with cast off CS stuff. Of course, every bad thing that happens can be blamed on Kingsdale.
Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 2:51 pm
the NPC*slash*PC i had who was from Whykin was killed by Mechanoids in our last session. So i guess it's not really important anymore 
Re: City of Whykin
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:15 am
Dead Boy wrote:
Unfortunately that is not canon material. Those are only possible adventure suggestions.
Since when is Aftermath not canon?
And isn't Whykin a kingdom? Not to be technical, but is it only a city or is it a kingdom with "huge tracks of land..." ?
Re: City of Whykin
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 3:32 pm
Hystrix wrote:Dead Boy wrote:
Unfortunately that is not canon material. Those are only possible adventure suggestions.
Since when is Aftermath not canon?
Well Damn it! I know I read one little, easily overlooked line in that book that said that the material was optional and not rock solid. But do you think I can find it now? Of course not. I should have hit it with a hi-liter.
Re: City of Whykin
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:20 am
Dead Boy wrote:Hystrix wrote:Dead Boy wrote:
Unfortunately that is not canon material. Those are only possible adventure suggestions.
Since when is Aftermath not canon?
Well Damn it! I know I read one little, easily overlooked line in that book that said that the material was optional and not rock solid. But do you think I can find it now? Of course not. I should have hit it with a hi-liter.
Wow! I don't know Dead Boy. I kinda think Aftermath might be canon. Otherwise what was the purpose of the book. It certainly wasn't an "alternate" setting.