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, Sun, 16 Oct 1994, part 1 Sender: Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM Content-Return: Prohibited Precedence: junk X-RQ-ID: Intro This is the RuneQuest Daily Bulletin, a mailing list on the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. It is sent out once per day in digest format. More details on the RuneQuest Daily and Digest can be found after the last message in this digest. X-RQ-ID: index 6614: joe = (Joerg Baumgartner) - Re: Oh woe is me! or: Shakespeare strikes again 6615: KFC01067 = (Takehiro OHYA) - Healers' Vow and Arroin 6616: vladt = (Kevin Rose) - Vessels, Etc. --------------------- From: joe@sartar.toppoint.de (Joerg Baumgartner) Subject: Re: Oh woe is me! or: Shakespeare strikes again Message-ID:Date: 15 Oct 94 16:42:52 GMT X-RQ-ID: 6614 David laments the final acts of the great Tarshite soap opera we're composing. Strange, I tought a denizen of the land of Shakespeare would appreciate a story told to its end... I asked: > >How happy, and how long is "ever after" in a land that will be torn > >by civil and external warfare only a couple of years in the future? > >Fazzur is mentioned as the commander of the Tarshite force in 1625, and gentle David quoth: > Damn you! Why spoil it all! Fazzur and the Queen had a chance of happiness, > and now you've smashed those hopes to pieces on the rock of your despicable > logic. I weep for them. Will you accept my condolations? > It is now obvious to me. Why do we hear nothing of Fazzur after 1625, and > only hear of his son Onjur after 1631? It is clear now that Fazzur was by > 1631 dead, along with his second wife, both brutally murdered at the hands > of his son, Onjur, in vengeance for the death of Onjur's foul and shrewish > mother. The swine! The cad! I can see the scene before me: It is Freezeday of Sea Season, as Fazzur returns frorm the morning service to the Seven Mothers in Furthest. While he usually spends his time at home, dividing his time between the loving attentions of his wife, his books, his estates, and his students, pressing clan affairs had brought him to Furthest once again. Stepping out of the temple, already half-way down, suddenly a group of his senior students step forth from the shadows between the columns, the hoods of their cloaks hiding their counenances, led by Onjur. However, Fazzur recognizes them already from their motions, after all he had trained every single one of them in the arts of battle and strategy. Neither Fazzur nor his students wear armour, although Fazzur is belted with his steel scimitar. Without suspicion Fazzur greets the 15 young men, as suddenly he feels the cold chill of an upcoming ambush. And lo, as he turns around, some armed and armoured members of the Phargantites leave the temple gate. Suspecting them to be the source of his alarm, Fazzur turns round and reaches for his sword, as the daggers of Onjur and his friends hit him in his back. His last breath is "You, my son?" The Phargantites rush forward, to lay their hands on the assassins, when they realize that the man staggering in a pool of his own blood is Fazzur, their chief rival and opponent. Nonchalantly they walk by, assuming that Imperial agents are hidden beneath those hoods. Onjur leads his companions to the parental stead. They sweep through the villas, until they find Queen Hendira in her bath, her ever present sacred snake pressed firmly to her bosom. Startled and bereft of his revenge, Onjur lets the silken garrotte drop when he perceives the fading image of a crimson scimitar rising through the ceiling - despite their haste, Fazzur's allied spirit had delivered the message of the general's death just before Onjur could fulfil the other half of his vow to take the life of his mother's murderers. What happened before? When Onjur's hapless mother had been disposed off, Fazzur had taken the opportunity when an assassin sent by the Phargantite had penetrated his estates' outer defences. The assassin had been slain by Horatio Hostilius below the window to the chambers of Fazzur's wife, a mere week after Fazzur's return from Esrolia. Queen Hendira still resided as a guest of state with the local earth temple. Before anyone learned of the incident, Fazzur activated a magical trinket he had exchanged with his beloved, and informed her of this strike of fortune. Via this piece of jewelry the decided to strangle Fazzur's wife, and blame the deed on the slain assassin. The scheme was carried out, and several years Onjur pursued the Phargantite conspirators who had sent the asassin to fulfil the vow he had given on his mother's funeral. However, when he and his companions finally had removed the last of the conspirators from this life, his vow (and geas) still weren't fulfilled. Puzzled, Onjur fell back to divination, and found out the bitter truth that to fulfil his vow, he had to slay his own father! Thus the scene on the 15th day of Sea Season resulted, after Onjur had the trinket which connected the lovers stolen from his father. > Joerg! Why couldn't you let it rest? Why did you have to delve deeper? Why? > Why? Why? Now my hero is dead and I don't know if I can go on... > You murdered him Joerg!! Your merciless logic cut his heart out - and with > it my hopes and dreams of a pure and happy Glorantha. > I'm sorry, I have to go now... This is a true tragedy, with all elements of greatness and loss you can wish for in a world gone mad. If this tragedy moved you, the poet can retire, we can find solace in the cautionary tale told by the chorus after a grief-stricken Onjur, finally released from his vow of vengeance, lightens the bier or his father. -- -- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de --------------------- From: KFC01067@niftyserve.or.jp (Takehiro OHYA) Subject: Healers' Vow and Arroin Message-ID: <199410151750.CAA06395@inetnif.niftyserve.or.jp> Date: 16 Oct 94 11:49:00 GMT X-RQ-ID: 6615 Hello to all, Richard Ohlson: X-RQ-ID: 6575 >A friend mentioned a CA subcult representing her son. In this subcult men >are allowed to become High Healers. (The only way for men to become priest s) >What do people know about him? Wait a minute, there isn't any difficulty for men to become priests (High Healers) of Chalana Arroy, judging from the cult write-up in "River of Cradles." "Female members are usually called White Women" says that there are other members who aren't called "White Women," I suppose. >Challana Arroys are sworn not hurt anything that is not chaotic. I have >allways wondered how they are supposed to tell. Why isn't there a spell >to detect Chaos? I think they've never sworn such an oath. Quoting from RoC, "An initiate must take an oath never to harm an intelligent creature or needlessly cause pain to any living thing." Thus, CA initiates mustn't kill or harm (phisically) Broos, Ogres, Scorpion Man, Jack O'Bear, and so on. Chaotic creatures are exceptions of only there oath of protecting her captives. When a broo attacks a CA initiates who travels alone, she probably uses her Sleep spell to him. And if he is defeated by the spell, she must run away as fast as she can, because she cannot harm this thug. Luckily enough, there comes a Storm Bull cultists. She can tell him where the broo sleeps and that he isn't under her protection (This is the exception!), and even ask him to kill, but she can never attack the broo at all even if he is a obvious chaotic creature. (If CA cultists can harm broos, there is no room for the famous Wild Healer of the Rockwoods.) So, the most useful skill for CA cultists is not Sense Chaos, I think, but Beast Training by which they can tell intelligent creatures from animals.... OK, please don't flame to me on this point. It's Joke. ----- Takehiro OHYA KFC01067@niftyserve.or.jp College of Arts and Sciences The University of TOKYO --------------------- From: vladt@interaccess.com (Kevin Rose) Subject: Vessels, Etc. Message-ID: Date: 15 Oct 94 13:26:04 GMT X-RQ-ID: 6616 Paul: I'll have to look at your concepts again, they seemed to make sense more than before. Soda has (as of last month) the playtest list through Febuary. I have June-August. Kevin ---------------------