> > Having finished finding lost sheep (Club-foot got away), I'm
> > considering sending the players off to the Rainbow Mounds. Never
> > played it myself, or even read it thoroughly in its RQ form, but it
> > looks like fun.
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> Heh! Sheepfoot's a major villian for us now -- a rather nasty Gagarthi
> (love Mark Gagarthi's cult writeup) Um, glad you liked it. =)
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> > Reading through the scenario, I see that quite a lot of the rewards
> > are in the form of scrolls in Darktongue.
>
> As the person who had to translate it into the HW... well... There
> wasn't much lattitude allowed us. Translate it rather than
> re-interpret it/re-write it.
>
> > Given that most Gloranthans are illiterate, who on earthXXXXXlozenge
> > is literate in Darktongue? Even in troll society?
>
> I know. I pretty much let our Lankor Mhy lawspeaker translate it using
> his 'translate document' ritual.
>
> But at the time, I was unaware of how fiercely LM guards literacy
> (though I do love the 'Induce Literacy In Others' feat Paul's been
> using. "I said READ it! You WILL read it! (whack)" but our group is
> kind of silly at times.)
>
> > I have one PC and one "follower" (sometimes also a PC) who speak
> > Darktongue: the follower is in fact a trollkin. Is there any
> > correlation between speaking Darktongue and reading it?
>
> Probably about the same correlation between spoken tongue and written.
> I don't know if Darktongue is phonetic and it certainly has dialects
> but with the long-lived (eternal?) Mistress Race trolls kicking
> around, it tends to stabilize a language greatly -- teh same way the
> printing press froze english at more-or-less the Elizabethan era.
>
> But that's linguistics...
>
> > The only way I can see this working is if the written form of
> > Darktongue is effectively a recording: you run a needle across it
> and
> > listen to the sounds. Or something. This might explain why a written
> > language intended to be felt rather than seen is on a scroll rather
> > than carved into a rock.
>
> Mmmm. Probably. I don't know how trolls record dark-tongue... that's
> an interesting thought. Probably touch like braille.
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> > Or is it taste-related? You eat the scroll, and the range of
> flavours
> > conveys the message? Very much a one-use item, then.
>
> Mmmm. Unless its.. well... recoverable. (ahem)
>
> > Presumably other people have run this scenario: what did you do with
> > the scrolls?
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> Sold them to an Issaries who dealt with trolls a fair bit. We got a
> small box of coloured thread and some bronze needles in exchange.
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