"Actually, they have hidden water barriers and flame jets installed on most of the turns, including the corkscrews," Silas answered to Keavy's suspicions. "They will likely be timed much like the hidden spikes. It will be all your jobs to figure out the timing intervals and communicate it to the rest of the group. Your on-board computers should be able to help you maintain accurate clocks once its input with the values." [...] Seeing that the simulation was already at the end of the track segement and moving onto the next, Silas continued. "There is another corkscrew, same specifications, but then the track runs through a short tunnel before opening up into clear track. The tunnel is unlit and there are no obstacles to get in your way, anywhere along this segement." Silas paused. "However, that also means that everyone's an open target." "What do you mean?" Billy asked. "He means that your opponents won't be busy dodging pillars or walls," Jory replied. "They'll be focusing storming down the track and making sure that you don't." The fear that crept on Billy's face was fortunately hidden inside his cockpit. "Oh." "Jory's right," Silas affirmed. "This tunnel is just over four gears wide. There is a lot of maneuvering room. Expect heavy fire fighting and melee combat here. Keavy and Julliette, if you wanted a place to show off your vibrosword skills this is the place." [...] "Billy and Shamus, this is where I would recommend that you too get as much speed as your gears can pump out. The track is wide enough that you should be able to maneuver to pass any slower gears that got ahead of you in the earlier segements." Silas' tone shifted. "Actually, everyone should be carefull not to get caught in the middle of a large pack in this segment, and you can bet that every racer is going to try the same." [...] ************************ Dennis D. Kirkpatrick Littleton, CO USA dkirkpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bluething.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message brought to you by the HG-PBEM "OVERDRIVE" mailing list. http://www.bluething.org/overdrive/