Wind Words from MOBTOTRM_at_vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au on 1997-01-09 (Glorantha Digest Vol 04)

From: MOBTOTRM_at_vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:18:13 +1100

G'day all,

Wind Words

Simon Phipp opines:
>David Cheng says that "no right-thinking adventurer ever has the spare
>POW to sacrifice for Wind Words" - absolute rubbish. The spell only
>costs 2 POW and has a multitude of uses...

If tossing away 2 POW for Wind Words is just spare change in your game, it's obviously played at a very different level to the ones I'm used to!

>...eavesdropping on NPC enemies, eavesdropping on NPC rivals,
>eavesdropping on secret ceremonies, listening to people at Confession
>(for the Yelmic cults), stitching up fellow PCs, informing PCs of events
>via a friendly Orlanthi and so on.

Mind, only when you're downwind! I finally found a practical use for this spell in my bit of Strangers in Prax, where Krogar Wolfhelm whispers messages to the PCs during a temple worship ceremony (though this got changed in the editing process to simple Mindspeech).

Cheers

MOB PS My Glorantha Digest V4 #57 cut right off mid-sentence of a Stephen Martin rave. This happen to everyone else too?

>From the Notes From Nochet files:
(XXIX. 23.vii-18/09)
'Concerning the amazing powers of Grand Knight Sir Meriatan, I heard that he, single-handed, overwhelmed a thousand warriors of the Kingdom of War, lent money to the Ecclesiarch and, less plausibily, been repaid!' Sir Gorgonpaste of Losklam, recent traveller to this land.