I am very interested in joining a Glorantha- and HQ- based PBEM game and your proposal sounds fascinating. (Especially given how hard it is to get a face-to-face game going around here let alone finding an already existing one.)
Unfortuantely I have not even applied for a PBEM game before let alone participated in one. So I don't know what protocol is involved.
My name is John Galloway. I am 40 years old and live in Auckland, New Zealand. I was introduced to RQ in my university days (mid 1980's) and played (and then later ran) games off and on for several years until real life put my role-playing activities on hold for a decade or two. When I finally got around to looking up RQ again I found HQ instead. (I missed HW entirely!)
I've been lurking on these boards for a while now (at least since when your sig was in English)and have both the main HQ book as well as ILH1 (plus MotS and a few of the earlier HW suppliments) but, sadly, none of the magazine/fanzine publications where most of the non- Pass material seems to be found.
Anyhoo, that's a bit about me. What else are you looking for in an acceptable application?
Thanks,
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From: "Roderick and Ellen Robertson" <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Sat Nov 12, 2005 6:38 pm
Subject: PBEM Game openings: Into Darkest Engiziland
> I'm getting ready to start a new PBEM game, and am looking for
> players.
> The Year
> The Forty-Ninth year of the Second Wane (1350 in the old calendar).
> 230 years ago the Dragonkill exterminated the Invincible Golden
> Horde.
> 130 years ago the Goddess was born
> 30 years ago a ragged band of rebellious barbarians lead by Arim
> the Pauper fled south beyond the Deathline. It was assumed that
> they all perished.
> 3 years ago Hwarin Dalthippa conquered Holay, defeated the
> Barbarians, and siezed Mirin's Cross.
> 1 year ago, a nearly-dead barbarian arrived in Mirin's Cross
> reporting that the Deathline had been breached.
> The Place
> Mirin's Cross, new home of the provincial government, but still
> mostly consisting of thatched mud huts and a few half-started
> Imperial style buildings. Imperial troops patrol the streets which
> throng with natives from the entire southern Oslir Valley.
> Badmashes from Holay rub shoulders with wild Aggari tribesmen, who
> would as soon slit your throat as smile. Priests from a dozen cults
> preach sedition or peace. The thugs of Umact wage a secret war of
> assassination against the Empire.
> The Expedition
> A major expedition is ready to head south across the Deathline. Its
> goal is to reconnoiter the land of Dragon Pass, closed to humans
> since the Dragonkill. Rumors about the mission say that the
> location of Emperor Khordavu's Mines, long lost to the Empire, has
> been found. Adventurers, scholars and men (and women) of fortune
> clamor to join the expedition. You are one of the lucky few who
> have been chosen
> The Game
> The idea is the exploration of Dragon Pass from the north, without
> notice of the history of the region as shown in various published
> sources. Everything that has been published is (most likely) wrong.
> You've got a map - from the time of the EWF. The heroes are Lunars
> (or Imperial allies). We need priests, Great Red Hunters,
> missionaries, military officers, native trackers, lost princes ...
> The tone of the game is in the spirit of Haggard, Kipling,
> Burroughs and Howard. Expect lost cities, beautiful native
> princesses (or handsome princes), strange animals, and the lure of
> treasure.
> I'm planning on actually starting play after the New Year - the
> American Sacred Time Rituals (Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New
> Years) will be taking up a lot of my time, but I'm certainly
> willing to look at characters in the meantime. ILH1 will be useful
> for Cultural information, and I'm perfectly willing to make up
> keywords out of the whole cloth if needed...
> So join up, the Empire and your League need you!
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