Heroquest mainanance

From: Hasni Mubarak <richo_at_epix.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 20:53:24 -0400


Somebody was sayin:
> Consider the Quest that attempted to cure Gbaji's curse on the Trolls.
> The Troll Questers did their ritual and made their change....
>
> And came back to find that they had instead made things worse. They had
> brought forth multiple births of trollkin! Now they weren't going to
> maintain that change were they? So why did it persist?

Well, I believe that is YOUR opinion that multiple trolkin is worse. For the Uz, I believe that it's a matter of quantity over quality. Sure, they'd rather have a big husky dark troll, but a dozen little trolkin can do a lot of chores and are, frankly, edible.

I think part of the problem for the trolls is that somebody mucked up their fertility rituals, and nobody knows what happened. So once they had a litter of trollkin, they started firming up the shaky grounds that the curse was based on, and now they unwittingly have supported it into truth.

I wonder if you can get to a point where a "truth" is self serving, self regulating, and self maintaining? Do the sacred time rituals more or less "support truth and reality as it is right now?" And then special rituals need to be done to maintain the exceptions to reality, like the "We all have perfect hair" or "My clan uses greatswords one handed" or "Our family gets +10% to our left handed mace attack" etc.

Rich Ohlson


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