Well, after several days, it seems a dead cert that Yahoo has
swallowed my suggestions.
My thoughts were that there should be a price which renders the idea
of being the "perfect heir" impossible in practice. Thus, in order
to obtain the cure, he must do something like:
- drink his father´s lifeblood
- pass the curse on to whoever would be next in line (e.g. his
nephew)
- separate his heart from his body and store the former somewhere
safe so as to halt the curse
- imbue an image or a mirror with the curse but always keep the item
nearby (Dorian Gray meets Snow White - there lies madness)
- learn how to tap magic and do this so as to keep the curse at bay
- become a troll (my favourite) - think of the next in line
- use some more conventional cure but with the result that this
leaves him sterile, which fact no-one, for some reason, may know)
None of these are particularly mythical, I think this was your
original requeest, but they may serve.
Sam.
- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Antonio Álvarez del Cuvillo
<antalvarez1976_at_...> wrote:
>
>
> > Surely Hum'Akt has a solution? A trial of combat, perhaps? A
trial
> of honour?
> > Walking the sword bridge?
> >
> > Erissa (sp?) should have a solution no doubt - involving
abandoning
> violence.
> >
> > I would say the Lunar Solution would involve Yanafal Taranis (I
> >can't spell this morning) and his ability to defeat Humakt.
> >
> > Some weird lunar solution could be to be undead according to the
> >phase of the
> > moon. (Alive when Red/Dead when Black)
> >
> > LC
>
> Many thanks. All are good ideas.
>
> And there is an Hum'akti easy solution: try to kill the PC !
> Anyway, i'm not sure if defeating Hum'akt have something to do with
> "leaving unlife", because Hum'akt is not unlife, but Death and
> Separation between Death and Life. His solution is very...
inapropiate
> for the PC: bringing true death severing the soul and the body.
But,
> perhaps, Hum'akt could help the player character to kill his deadself
> or something like that; the player has to leave something of his
own,
> something from his self in order to remain alive. Then, he could
take
> the relife sickness or something like that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio
>