Re: The Glorantha Digest V6 #339

From: Erik Sieurin <sieurin_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 04:49:22 -0800 (PST)


D. Bourne:
Personally I'd like to throw any dwarves overboard, but if you attached a
chain to them perhaps they could be useful as an anchor? ***

Well, dwarves have more sturdy bones and heavier body structure than humans, so it could actually work! (They are not made literally of stone, though, contrary to popular opinion.)

I was goping to suggest this being an actual Troll practice, but realized the anchortroll then would be _certain_ to eat the anchor, not just _likely_ to.
Anyway, if you did it at sea, you might attract Sea Trolls - HEY! There _have_ to be someone somewhere who fishes for Sea Trolls using live Dwarfs as bait!
Jane Williams:
That Orlanthi player has been asking me about elementals. In particular, it seems to him that this business of Summoning them and giving them orders is a disrespectful way of treating the representative
of his God.



Your average sylph isn't the representative of Orlanth; it is one of his lesser servants, nay even animals.
Of course you shouldn't mistreat it (would you mistreat a milk cow you had loaned from the Chieftain?) but bossing it around is OK. Oh, and since it is a wild and willfull beast, you should have to show that you are worthy of commanding it. Otherwise, it is completely in its right to buck around and wreak havok (blowing off the roof off the well, scaring the chickens, buffet Granma when she comes out to see what the heck is going on).

'Higher' air spirits is another thing, though. By that I do not mean just bigger; a big sylph is just a stronger horse, so to speak.

That could actually be a way for an Orlanthi to prove himself (the 'test of Holiness' if you wish): 'OK, Buck, if you can ride in Orlanth's Stallion, El Diablo, I'll hire you as a cowpoke, erh, Storm Servant'. You have to control the sylph staying on top of it - if you fail, it'll toss you, if you succeed, it is tamed.

This could be played out in a sort-of-spirit-combat in RQ X/PDP, and is a perfect example of HW-style 'extended resolutions4.

Dwarf Lost at Sea:
 First mate O'Toole here of the Dwarven Bronzeclad Dreadnautilis Mark II reporting in.

 I understand that some be callin us Piratyes or sumthin, I will av ye know we is no such thing, Cap'n say we be Private Ears, or Buccan ones.

Shiver me timbers it be a jolly life at sea (snip) ***
'Shiver me _timbers_'??!! A- HAA! A closet Vegetarian! Recycle! Recycle!

==
'The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea,
In a beautiful, pea-green boat...'
>From 'The Owl and the Pussycat' by Edward Lear
Erik Sieurin
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