Golly could not pass for a normal human and is programmed using the control panel in its chest, although it understands basic verbal commands. Golly, the android, is something of a house guardian, programmed to protect the Transcomp device in the Wiley basement as well as the rest of the family. He's a resourceful young man, on the verge of learning to cope with his lycanthropy, so mature that adults often forget that he's just a kid. James Wiley is just your typical 15-year-old werewolf, whose father and uncle also happen to run a secret Foundation controlling Transcomp technology on Shadow Earth. Here, then, are a set of NPC's from this novel, beginning with its protagonist:
There are also bands which have allied together for purposes of military expansion and to exploit the resources of neighboring realities. Several of Earth's neighboring dimensions, or 'bands,' have allied with each other for mutual exploration and technology-sharing purposes. Travel between two bands from transcomp to transcomp is generally somewhat safe- but more perilous travel, using a single transcomp device on one end and magical sorcery on the other, can also be attempted blind transcomp travel using only a single transcomp device, or especially traveling from band to band using sorcery only, is an incredibly risky and imprecise affair. Travel between these "bands," as they are called, is primarily accomplished through a technological device called a 'transcomp,' which is a noisy but highly advanced piece of room-sized equipment. The book's basic premise is that there are many parallel versions of earth in existence, each of which contains a different possible set of circumstances. If you haven't read A Dark Traveling, there are spoilers ahead. In any case, though, its setting blends almost seamlessly with the setting of Amber if you make the (rather dubious) assumption that 'transcomp teleportation' is just a limited form of shadow travel. Previous posts have provided stats for characters from Zelazny's novels Doorways in the Sand, Eye of Cat, To Die In Italbar, from his Dilvish the Damned series, and from two of his short stories, " Mana From Heaven" and " Kalifriki of the Thread." The post about Dilvish was the first in the series, explaining how and why I used characters from Zelazny's books in one of my campaigns- and that post would also be the best place to start reading this series, if you haven't been following along.Ī Dark Traveling is sometimes referred to as a work of juvenile fiction, although I read somewhere that Zelazny himself recoiled from the label.
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This post continues my series about using characters from Zelazny's other fiction in Amber Diceless campaigns. I'm doing the job search thing and have been pretty busy.
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