Oliver:
> True but....I was thinking about this at lunch today and realized that
>
> undead like
> skeletons and zombies are always out of their element. They're
> unnatural
> and have
> no native environment. Just because a human would be at a
> disadvantage
> standing
> waist deep in water doesn't mean a skeleton or zombie would be.
They still walk the same way that humans do, only stiffer.
If you want to have a useful water zombie, use a big croc or gigantic
catfish (which Delecti or one of his adherents probably have already).
> He's supposed to be able to stich anything together so maybe in his
> spare
> time
> he crochets zombie muskrats or beavers? :)
Untiringly, the zombie beavers gnaw on the walls of the hillfort...
'Night of the living dead chipmunks' was the title of a Larson cartoon,
once.
Meints:
> I think it is a fairly safe assumption that most ducks are not Humakti
>
Agreed. But Humakt worship carries less of a stigma among Ducks and Lismelder tribesmen than among other Orlanthi.
> Just because they live in close proximity to the Marsh and its undead
>
> minions doesn't mean that ducks and the forces of Delecti are in a
>
> constant state of war.
Agreed again. Its rather like this: The vampires carefully instruct
their zombies each dawn what they will do if intruders (Duck Humakti)
appear, and worry about their Protective Circles being broken while they
lie waiting for what vampires do instead of sleeping.
The ducks carefully checks their wards, let out the dogs, and hope the
little iron death runes hanging on the door won't fall downn during the
night.
> As for what ducks do worship...
>
> Most would worship rough analogs of basic Orlanthi deities, with a
> little
> ancestor worship thrown in. Things like river spirits, etc.
Agreed again. The special duck cults are not that different from the
tribe-specific cults of any Sartarite Orlanthi tribe.
> If there is
> a rice based equivalent of Barntar, the ducks would be first in line.
Barntar the Paddydigger instead of Barntar the Ploughman? Barney aint
crop specific.
>
> They may have an offshoot of some type of gorakikki cult, since they
>
> love grubs, bugs, etc.
Or the duckish Odayla teach Command Insect spells, and special
bughunting tactics, and have some insect spirits/gods as allied cults.
> They may even have a small heretical sect of ducks
> who are trying to get back into the good graces of Yelm and Vrimak.
>
> Perhaps they are known as the golden junior bird men... :)
IMC ducks hate raptors and sling at'em at the first opportunity. Perhaps
the small, heretical sect could be up to stuff like sacrifice precious
ducklings to big hungry raptors, or something like that.
>
> That's how I think of ducks, let the dissent begin.
>
Damn it, not much dissent above :-)
> PS: ducks do know how to roll cigars, but they don't make them out of
> a
> high quality tobacco, but more likely an odd swamp grass.
Cheech and Chong in Glorantha?
Erik Sieurin
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