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From: Urox@aol.com
Subject: Babsi's conversion
Message-ID: <9407050352.tn346928@aol.com>
Date: 5 Jul 94 07:52:57 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5062

I mentioned the tale of my Babeester Gorii who lost her Edge and Pam Carlson
asked to hear the whole story. I'm writing it all down but I don't know the
ettiquette for posting long campaign write-ups so I'll summarize:

MEGAERA FURIOSO

The Saga of Megaera - Known As Wyrmsbane - as told to the Boldhome Lhankor
Mhy Sages by Puddles Sternbill, Beak of xxHueymakt DeathDrake.xx.

 

Megaera was thoroughly disgusted with this situation, but as events
progressed she realized the need for some of their skills. For example, we
only managed to cross into Tarsh after Imakt the Troll spoke with the Lunar
authorities just before Megaera was about to declare a Holy War on the entire
Empire. (I found out months later Imakt had told the officer he was taking us
to the Crimson Bat). Megaera calmed down after a few days and only beat up or
threatened to eat the men alive once or twice an hour.  She got along best
with Imakt because he seemed to know how to treat women. He said Megaera was
human, and female, so he named her "Human Female."



 Now this presented a very sticky problem for Megaera, because while she had
One-hand the Drunkard and his cousin Zozka in easy reach and ripe for torture
and execution, we had accepted the village's hospitality and of course the
clan could not agree to their execution without an Orlanthi trial. There was
much grinding of teeth and tearing of hair at that point before she concocted
the plan of sending Harold and Zozka out to track the thugs who had committed
the actual murder so she could  kill them as soon as they left clan
territory.
 


 We awoke that morning to find that half the animals in the village,
including Imakt's pack beetle, one of the bison and half our other mounts and
been transformed into big, white rabbits! Recovering from our shock, we
learned from the headman and Earth priestess that the village was under a
curse from March Hare, a local demigod. It seems that this was the site where
Voria emerged from the earth after her Quest at the Dawn. Ever since its
founding, the village had been required to perform the ritual for Voria and
March Hare in their honor.  
 But one year the maiden who was to play Voria had been dallying with her
drake and missed her part, thus botching the ritual. 

 Since we had to have the mounts back to get out of the Empire safely,
Megaera proclaimed she would lift the curse. "How is it done," she asked.
"Show me this Hare and I will wring his neck." 
 "You will undertake this Quest?" said the headman.
 Before I could stop her, she had pledged us to a HeroQuest to find March
Hare. 

 
Date: 7 Jul 94 03:39:00 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5063

Gang,

  To follow up on my post about miniatures a couple of weeks ago, here 
are some addresses, and some new miniatures just out.

  But first, a plea for help:

  Did anyone manage to save my article on "How I won the War"? It was
a writeup on the Home of the Bold game at RQCON, written from Subatei
Silken-tongues point of view. I don't have FTP capability, so the
Archives at Soda aren't any use. I can't remember exactly when I wrote
it, but it was somewhere between 2 and 6 weeks after the con. If you 
could send a copy to me, I'd appreciate it.

We now return to our article, already in progress:

  In the store today, I found plain old African animals produced by
Ral Partha Imports. They have a Lion pride (1 lion, 2 lionesses (same
pose) and a base with 2 cubs), Elephant (one only), Water Animals
(Hippo, Crocodile, 2 poses each), and Veldt Animals. This last has two
pony-sized antelopes (Oryxs it looks like), a Wildebeest, and a small
Giraffe, that makes a Big High Llama (It stands about 12' at the head, 8 at
the shoulder). The giraffes have problems with the bases and feet, and
since they are cast in Rallidium (Ral Partha's Pewter), they are a bit
difficult to fix. The Antelopes have straight horns, but a little work
should be able to make them Sable Antelopes (and then you can see why 
Sable Antelopes are *not* a good thing to ride). They really need 
smaller riders, my Wargames Foundry figures look silly on them. 
Perhaps Ral Partha figures would work. 

   Revenge Miniatures just brought out a series of 1066-era Saxons,
Normans and Vikings. The Vikings and Saxons make good Sartar/barbarian
figures. The store had about 6 different Saxon packs and 4 vikings
(though there must be more, seeing what *wasn't* there that should
have been). For ~$22, I got 31 figures, in 12 poses (between 1 and 5
figures per pose). This is a real deal, as most figures run between
1.10 and 2.00 each. 


Roderick
Robertson@Delphi.Intel.Com

ADDRESSES:

  Some addresses are marked as Old Info, this means that I don't have 
a current package or catalog. I don't think that any have moved, 
but...

  Also, I'm not sure how to parse addresses in England, so I split out 
each field into a seperate line.

  The Lord of the Rings Line is produced by Mithral Miniatures, I 
don't have an address for them (I'm pretty sure they are in Ireland).

CITADEL MINIATURES: 
(old info)
UK:
Games Workshop
Chewton St.
Hilltop
Eastwood
Notts
NG16 3HY

US: 
Games Workshop, Inc.
3431 Benson Ave.
Baltimore, Md 21227


ESSEX MINIATURES, DIXON MINIATURES:
US:
Wargames
Box 278 Route 40 East
Triadelphia, WV. 26059

GRENADIER:
(old info)
UK:
Grenadier Models U.K. Ltd.
19 Babage Road
Deeside
Clwyd
Wales

US:
Grenadier Models Inc.
PO Box 305
Springfield, Pa. 19064


RAFM:
(old info)
RAFM Company Inc.
20 Park Hill Road East
Cambridge, Ontario NIR IP2
CANADA

RAL PARTHA:
Ral Partha Enterprises Inc.
5938 Carthage Court
Cincinnati, OH. 45212-1197

REVENGE MINIATURES; AGE OF REASON MINIATURES:
Emperor's Headquarters
5744 Irving Park Road
Chicago, Il. 60634

WARGAMES FOUNDRY:
UK: 
The Foundry
Mount Street
New Basford
Nottingham
NG7 7HX

US:
Pendragon Miniatures
1549 Marview Drive
Westlake, Oh. 44145


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