David Weihe takes Yelmalio to McDs (did he really deserve it?)
>> Hrm, I dunno about this. Does Yelmalio _have_ a favourite breakfast
>> cereal,
>After enough Geases are applied, he certainly has a lot of forbidden
>breakfasts. ... If he walks into McDonald's, our Yelmalio avatar can
>order orange juice or coffee, jelly, and maybe a danish.
Except that jelly contains gelatine, from cows. And I'd watch the butter
content in the danish, if I were you.
> From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_interzone.ucc.ie>
> Someone commented that when you sacrifice POW to a God, it's not so much
> Gone, as Bound Up.
That was me: and that's a better term for it than any of the ones I
tried.
> I very much agree. If one makes initiate DI
> reusable, then this aspect is yet more apparent.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "reuseable" here. Did you mean
having divine *magic* reuseable? (Renewed on the HHD, that sort of
thing?)
> It's always struck me
> as a bug of the RQ rules that sacking half ones power to Ernalda also
> halves ones chances of getting a DI from Ernalda (or anyone else). If
> it doubled it, that would make more intuitive sense to me.
Agreed. I think we need to start turning this into a rule system: we're
quantifying it nicely now.
> It now further occurs to me that this "reservoir" of "fixed" POW is very
> likely one of the main resources a community can use to offer "support"
> to one of their number when she goes on a HQ.
Yes!! Thank you! That was the link I was missing.
> Losing some or all of the clan's fertility magic for a season,
> or for a year, or possibly even _forever_ seems exactly the sort of thing
> a badly failed HQ would result in.
Quite. And of course decreasing the chance of gaining help from that
deity in the near future would drop, too.
> In practice, the transition
> from "our local gyda, who leads our prayers to Ernalda", to "great
> heroine whom we honour as a daughter of the Earth" is likely to be
> a relatively slow, fuzzy, and potentially somewhat erratic one.
As it should be: and it looks like we've got a rule system here that
makes it possible. But it occurs to me that that was a fair description
of that Theya woman we keep hearing about: which implies that their
campaign already has such a rule system. Pam? Jeff?
> this is usually a way to "ambush" a _particular_ .... quester, with
> whom one is already linked in some way, and who one knows will be on
> the heroplane that day, as part of the HHD rite. Starbrow's
> unsuccessful SLBP is another example of this.
While I agree with the point you're trying to make, I take exception to
the example. The account that claims it was unsuccessful was written by
Denseros, who was just a little bit biased. (This is the guy who writes
most of her reign out of history, remember?)
Jane Williams jane_at_williams.nildram.co.ukhttp://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~janewill/gloranth/index.shtml
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