gloranthan themes of great import

From: D M McNamara <D.M.McNamara_at_durham.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 13:13:06 +0100 (BST)


  Hello again fellow morokanth...
I remembered the other day a silly argument i had about call of cthulhu and runequest. I am sure you are all familiar with similar arguments, yet i still feel they are of the utmost importance, as much as 'who is arkat?' etc.
  1. Can great cthulhu whip 'the mother of all monsters' (elder secrets) butt in a fisticuffs combat (in pamaltela), if he decided to shuffle on over and do some sight-seeing? After all, in Dorastor there is the suggestion that a hunting horror, for example, could be flapping about the land of doom. (but is it a chaos demon that coincidentally resembles a hunting horror, or a real-live objective hunting horror?)

    The general consensus of opinion was that cthulhu would win, because he doesn't even have to physically enter glorantha - instead he can send his dreaming mind and float about the landscape (but wouldn't be able to bring back any tacky brass souveneirs of the Block, or get those unusual dara happan dancing girl playing cards he's always wanted). Therefore he can enter 'spirit combat.'

    Also, one of cthulhu'd deadliest and meanest physical attacks is 'grab 1d4 investigators' with his wibbly mouth tentacles. If the mother of all monsters could be counted as an 'investigator,' (erm..investigating pamaltela?) could be grab it and stuff all of it in his mouth?

2. If the Crimson Bat and great cthulhu bumped into each other while checking out the hero plane, and decided to have a tentacle wrestling contest, who would win?
  ie. the crimson bats tongues vs. cthulhu's investigator grabbing 'mouth' tentacles.
  We reckoned the crimson bat would win - just because he's so ugly.

3. Carl stanford (of 'hermetic order of silver twilight fame') and ZZabur think it would be fun to summon the most gruesome thing that they can think of. Who would summon the most hideous thing imaginable?   We weren't sure about this one...we thought they would both try to summon the same thing and cause a summoning 'loop' and decide to call it a draw.

4. Does anyone remember 'snake pipe hollow?' Could 'the man from DOOM' clear it out by himself? Surely the blue ghost is tougher than any wussy old cyberdemon.

   We thought the man from DOOM was invinvible (particularly if you put him on 'god' mode!).

5. Has zzabur read the necronomicon? (or indeed, is he abdul alhazred?)

6. If Tsathoggua went on a heroquest, what would he do?

   We reckoned he would create a new myth cycle which would allow him to get a strong cup of coffee and stay awake more often.

7. BIG Gorp vs. Shoggoth.

   What happens? Do they mutually combine?

I must apologise for these silly questions, but please indulge me, because we laughed a lot while we were discussing it, and would be interested what you runequesters thought.....

  Dominic.


End of Glorantha Digest V2 #581


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