>> No, there's not, because you're just playing the part of someone
>> playing the part of someone...That's not a HQ, that's just a bad
>> school play. It's sounding increasingly forced.
>
>You may think so, but what the heck do you think hero worship
>is about, anyway? I don't recall Morden's story getting "bad
>school play" notices. What do you think the hero-plane _is_?
A place for heros. Not a school trip for beginners.
>You seem to be randomly rubbishing suggestions along these lines
>without offering much of an alternative,
So presumably you've missed my references to a sliding scale of difficulty?
>or taking any of the
>alleged "mechanics" of questing into account.
I'm not clear on your meaning here.
>> Far more heroic to
>> have made it a sliding scale of difficulty than this.
>
>Well, it is in effect a sliding scale of difficulty, in my belief.
Rewriting a myth to create a new version for different characters isn't a sliding scale, it's a set of similar, but different, myths. The Russian Doll theory of Gloranthan Mythology, inside every myth a smaller one fits.
>But I thought you wanted a cosmological account of _why_, and I gave
>you one.
And it fits the new official explanation very well. Unfortunately.
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