> Has anyone else encountered problems with the Imperial Beaurocracy?
During a recent and major earthquake at the Central Mines in Imther, the Lunars 'aided' the royal relief effort (the King's copper extracts were endangered after all--the extracts that he uses to pay off the Lunar Provincial Gov't). The characters were all assigned to an appropriate relief sector from which they pursued their tasks. Of course, there were a few minor problems such as when they were directed to bring woolen blankets to a nearby village and discovered the villagers had more blankets than they knew what to do with (the Lunar officials can be very efficient, after all), though the villagers had no food to speak of. Later the characters got their official Mine Entry Forms only to discover at the entrance that the scribes had misnamed at least one person and that character's relief identification form did not match the Mine Entry Form. Not that it mattered at that point since there had been an aftershock and the Mine Entry Forms were not valid without an additional Clearance Form. The whole effort placed an extremely heavy burden on the already overworked scribes.
> the Carmanian college
The two Carmanian sorcerors in my campaign are both part of the Order of the Golden Web, a splinter group from the larger College of the Web of Life. The Golden Web is currently out of favor (i.e. driven out or underground) for dabbling in experimental magics (short-term preset spell enchantments called 'webs' that have a duration around a week, but have a tendency to decay and then unleash a magical backlash).
> Peter Metcalfe posted an article on "What comes out of Charg" which I
never saw, but sounds very interesting from others' comments.
Besides being one of the most amusing pieces I've seen on the Daily, the horrors which Peter unleashed were far worse than anything out of Dorastor.
Harald
End of Glorantha Digest V1 #226
Powered by hypermail