From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" 
Subject: RE: (urth) Coldhouse Den-die
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 11:23:21 -0700

> Blattid, regarding the coldhouse prank death, wrote:
> >(Is this another candidate for when Den "really" died?)
> 
> Well, er, yes and no.
> 
> If Weer is lying about his age at the time (invalidating the 
> big anchor for the current operating timeline), then the
> coldhouse death could be his own, just as he might be a
> dead boy next to his chemistry set.

Which was in fact my point ... This is just a goof, really, but 
it's a stfnal idea that I've played with many time and never 
come up with a good storyline for ... I've often had the idea 
of, well, if you can have multiple-sheaf futures, why not multiple-
sheaf pasts? And then what if Alden, the Reasonably Friendly Ghost, 
actually has lived multiple versions of his life and died at 
several different points along the timeline ... ? It would 
certainly clear up (by making irrelevant) many of the 
inconsistencies in the storyline(s). So he died of a stroke, and
he died playing with his chemistry set, and he died in the 
coldhouse prank ... Just a goof, as I said.

But I'm dead serious about the coldhouse == the barn.

--Blattid


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