From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 07 Jul 1994, part 3 Sender: Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM Content-Return: Prohibited Precedence: junk --------------------- 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 ---------------------