>>In fact, it looks a
> Or not fighitng one, actually... :)
Exactly. Defeat the enemy by cunning, not by strength, there is always another way.... and I think I'm right in saying that Vingans have started off by doing their initiation as women before they "test" in Vinga?
> OK, the real reason is, "It's in her nature." But
> then, what is in her nature?
> The Heortlings call it their "star heart." This is
> of course a metaphor.
Yes, and in Glorantha that's the sort of phrase I'd use. It's trying to get it into gaming terms where I get confused.
> I am not sure it is a single roll.
> Does she do what is needed? Her best, etc.? Come up
> with an effor tto
> do as well as possible against odds? Or just give
> up? If the latter,
> well, she'll die during the initiation.
So that sounds like player decision rather than a roll. And to be fair, I doubt if many of us will want to make this a contest, since the player losing it is unlikely to make good story.
> > Meanwhile he thinks he's rescuing her from the Ice
> > Palace. Reconciling those is going to make for
> some
> > good stories.
>
> The fact is, each claims to have exclusively rescued
> the other.
> However, these are gender secrtets, as it were, and
> they do not boast of this to each other.
Of course. Though I still wonder about Vingans, who presumably go through both versions, female first?
> > Not that I know anything about the
> > Vithelans, but surely the sun going missing and
> the
> > world falling apart is big enough to be a
> universal event?
>
> Their segment may not have suffered this in the same
> way that the rest of the world did.
At this point I decide that I'm going to carry on not knowing much about Vithelans. Way too confusing for me. Pass the beer and the pretzels.
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