In my game last night, an Orlanthi traveller (quite without prompting by
me) while being interrogated by an Inquisitor of the Watchdog Council of
New Hrestoli Idealist Church explained to him the Peter Principle. This
cunning theory (for those of you who don't know it) says that in any
hierarchy, the reward for being good at your job is to be promoted to a
different job. (And this certainly describes the Loskalmi state!) And the
effect of this is that you get promoted until you reach a job you are bad at.
You are then stuck at the level of your incompetence and proceed to screw up
the whole system. (Alright, there are exceptions: those who are so supercompetent
that they can do anything and those who are smart enough not to
seek promotion above a comfortable level.)
The Inquisitor didn't get it nor see how it applied to him but one of the
Soldiers standing guard in the room went DOH! audibly and later fainted when
the full horrible implications hit him. I think that one conversation may
have caused the downfall of the New Hrestoli Idealist Church in my Glorantha...
A couple of questions:
Does anyone have any stats for Boggles? Sandy? And what do they look like?
So far I've told my party "You'll know one when you see one!" but I can't keep
that up forever.
Has anyone done any work on the Nameless Man?
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Michael Cule
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AKA Theophilus Prince Archbishop of the Far Isles
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