I hold (through the revelation of the great LM seer Imade Itup) that there is an ancient Uz tradition that in order for a wedding to be valid, the bridegroom has to successfully steal something from the Bride-to-be. This helps reduce domestic violence and abuse by ensuring that the poor weak hubby is tough and sneaky enough to withstand his wife.
>I was in a campaign once, though, where a Moonsword cultist strolled into
>a Xentha temple (and was slain, natch. Horribly).
And Xentha is the "nice" darkness goddess! she actually likes humans
(ther than to eat<g>
>> fingers) but this is just IMO. of course, I like the idea of Uz
>> "humanologists" having to train value trollkin to read to them... maybe
>> spelltrading an ocasional Detect Lie from the Lhankor Mhy to weed out
>> the unreliable (Yum! <burp!>.)
>This is almost worth junking my belief they can use texture to read! Heck,
>it _is_ worth it. This'd be reason #33 Why Trolls Make Better Graduate
>Students: Trollkin slave race to do their reading for them. <g>
Huzzah! a convert! (now if only I can convince Greg and Sandy...)
>
>> Actually, I'm still convinced that the nose would be most crippling...
>> but I havn't really determined just how all this fits into Uz culture...
>Maybe you _don't punch there_, just like you don't (usually) punch the
>throat in human culture in friendly fighting? MGF -- the trolls get in a
>bar brawl in Pavis. The human hits him in the jaw/nose. The troll gets
>_very_ angry, now... (Raising the question, where do trolls punch each
>other for fun? Maybe it's more polite to slam the other troll in the gut?
>or the ol' knee-in-groin doesn't carry the same social stigma?)
I suppose that Trolls prolly just DONT punch. I think it makes sence,
actually... they push and slap, Like Sumo Wrestlers (and bite -- very
much unlike sumo wrestlers). Considering that their weapons tend to be
all swing/blugeon types, it would be kinda strange for them to use a
stabbing motion (normal human punch) in unarmed combat. This mode of
combat also helps reduce permanant injuries, while allowing trolls to be
extremely physical and violent in their social interactions, as I feel
they Ought to be. It also favors the larger and stronger females over
males which is socially correct, and Greatly reduces the changes of a
miscarriage (really THE most important concern of the uz). Punching, or
kicking above the knee (note that ALL of an enlo counts as below the
Knee, of course) is probably Extremely bad form in an Uz brawl, much
like biting or hitting below the belt is for humans. I think
knee-in-groin is probably bad amongs trolls for the same procreative
reasons as punching in the belly. ( on females, it's Close to the belly,
and she may be preggers, and on males, you just might piss off his
wife... <g>).
I also really like the Idea of a Troll in a barroom in Pavis bellying up
to a stormbully and slapping him silly... (ooohhh, gawsh, Imagine how a
Yelmite or Shargashi would respond to being slapped....<evil g>... I bet
that's how a Troll would respond to being punched... I smell some MGF
brewing...)
>
>Hey, maybe it's true. See, Zorak Zoran is in Hell, and each night Yelm
>shows up. So ZZ grabs him, and punts him up in the sky. Now, ZZ's so
>strong, he kicks Yelm up so high, it takes a whole day for him to fall
>back down. At the end of the day, Karrg catches him, and passes him back
>to ZZ, where they repeat the cycle. Yelm: The Cosmic Football. Boot.
I LIKE it... sort of a Grims Fairy tale for young Uzlings... (of course the more consevative XU nurses forbid such tales, because it's not good for the yung'uns to be confronted with such horrors as "daytime" in their tender youth).
danm
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