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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 18 Aug 1994, part 2
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From: mmorrison@VNET.IBM.COM (Michael C. Morrison 8-543-4706)
Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 17 Aug 1994, part 2
Message-ID: <1994Aug17.134417.39366@vnet.ibm.com>
Date: 17 Aug 94 20:44:17 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5745
*** Reply to note of Wed, 17 Aug 94 09:16:03 +0200
*** by RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM
Subject: Truestone & Rune power
Tim writes:
T> Simply
T>make truestone contain only raw divine power i.e. Rune Power Points
T>Indeed it should be the only vessel which can store such power.
One thing your description lacked was the fact that once Rune magic
in placed into Truestone, it is lost to the filler/recharger until
it is used from the Truestone. Or am I living in the past?!
Thus, Moxie would be in a sad state if the temple hadn't given him
the Truestone he himself filled with the 6 RPP -- he'd have 0 RPP
until he got more or someone used the ones in his Truestone. And
when he was given the Stone, he should have 6 MPP, not 12 MPP.
I like old Truestone that has specific spells in it -- it makes
finding a piece of filled or empty (not blank) Truestone exciting
because you have one use of a spell you could never have otherwise!
Or you can put your own magic in it and give it to someone -- like
a Storm Khan giving a Stone with all his anti-chaos magic to a
Sword of Humakt who is going to fight a "non-chaotic" Humakti Broo.
And I'm not sure I want to replace Truestone with Divine Magic
matrices -- a matrix is easy to make, whereas Truestone is rare.
DM matrices do exist, but I don't want them *everywhere* ...
Michael
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From: jiml@falcon.teleride.on.ca (Jim Lai)
Subject: Two small points
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Date: 17 Aug 94 14:29:00 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5746
Someone mentioned that in the Dara Happan version of the death of Yelm,
Orlanth fled from the field in terror. Yet in KoS, the account states
that it was the judges who fled, leaving the field to Orlanth. A minimal
attempt to reconcile the two accounts is that in the ur-Death of Yelm
story, the gods fled from the field in terror, but no one said who stayed
or who left.
Secondly, we all seem to have forgotten Minlister, god of beer and brewing.
No doubt many a household has a little shrine to him. And then there is
Babeester Gor's favored drink (blood ale?) to reckon with.
GrimJim
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From: ddunham@radiomail.net (David Dunham)
Subject: Valorous Rune Moose
Message-ID: <199408180241.AA27199@radiomail.net>
Date: 18 Aug 94 02:41:27 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5747
The big disadvantage with the modified Runepower seems to be complexity.
With the sacrifice-for-spell approach, you have the spell and you can cast
it. Give me something as simple and I might like it. I'm supposed to
explain to new players that they have to sacrifice for a spell and for
runepower and keep track of their rune affinity score?
Sandy said
>The other
>disadvantages of having a Moose tribe, such as making the players
>crack up, I feel to outweigh the advantages.
Hmm, I consider this an _Advantage_ of the Moose Hsunchen. They're almost
the comic relief of my Ralios game.
David Baur asked about the Valorous stat used in my clan abilities. I
thought I'd mentioned that I was describing them in terms of PenDragon Pass
rules. Most characters have a Valorous trait of 13-17.
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From: john.hughes@anu.edu.au (John P Hughes)
Subject: The Mostali & 12 Naked Elf Women
Message-ID: <199408180411.OAA01811@leonard.anu.edu.au>
Date: 19 Aug 94 00:11:20 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 5748
THOSE DAMNED DORADDI RIDDLES
Not much bite at all for these (thanks Martin). Were they too hard, or
did I pick the wrong time - a couple of days before Convulsion?
Here are the riddles again and later, their answers. They were collected
from semi-nomadic Doraddi tribal people, and, as Martin suggested, do
reveal a lot about their culture and ways of thinking. Mostly
they are about everyday objects, and occurences, though 9 is not.
I would not be surprised if similar riddles were told by the nomads of Prax.
1. A white hut without door or windows: goodness and life within.
2. My hut has no fire, no lamp. The door is closed.
3. The one who fights slowly.
4. A chief who sits among thorns.
5. My mother's hut with one supporting post: healing, eating and lineage
within.
6. Five hunting dogs go in the same hole.
7. Going I found it, returning I found it not.
8. Our great bull rubs the reeds on Banini Lake.
9. The tree moves; fruits out of season.
10. Two little holes that devour all; only spirits do not go there.
11. Plants make it; good to eat. Red below, black in middle, white on top.
12. The little animal that comes on fiercely: when it reaches the path of
its mate, the fierceness departs.
13. She carries her belly on her back.
14. The walker gives to birth to the non-walker, the non-walker to the
walker.
15. It digs about the deserted village: it sees things that are no longer
there.
HINTS: Doraddi spend a lot of time thinking about food. 4 & 6 are somehow
linked. 13 is very difficult, but the riddle would be valid anywhere in
Glorantha or earth. 7 is true only at certain times of the year.
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GO BACK! DON'T READ THE ANSWERS YET: YOU CAN WORK SOME OF THEM OUT.
Here they are: 1. An egg. 2. A grave (Doraddi are earth worshippers). 3.
Hunger. 4. The tongue (among teeth). 5. A healing plant (totemic;
inherited matralineally). 6. Fingers carrying food into the mouth. 7. Dew.
8. A canoe. 9. The Kresh. 10. The eyes (spirits are normally
invisible) 11. Porridge in a pot on the fire. 12. A grass-fire. 13. The
calf of the leg. (I got lynched for that one). 14. Chicken and egg. 15.
Memory.
And there's still a prize for someone who comes up with an answer to:
Keruan comes and he children dance: the mother does nor dance.
I can't answer it because I didn't write it down and have since forgotten
it.
Have Fun folks (Hee Hee)
John
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