East Isles Navigation

From: mob <mob_at_bayswater.schnet.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:10:29 +1100


G'day all,

Good to see the Digest coming to life a bit again! It was positively moribund a month ago, before Su and I headed off to Vanuatu for our 10th Anniversary. While she has the complexion of an English Rose and is generally leery of weird intoxicants, I spent plenty of time improving my sun tan (and hastening incipient skin cancers) and getting out of my skull on kava (highly recommended btw, even though it is like drinking compost).



East Isles Navigation

Someone asked:
<< So, what does a hypothetical Haragalan compass point towards? >>

Mark Mohrfield replied:

>The gamer in me argues for Magasta's Pool in order to keep things from getting
>to confusing, but the Gloranthophile in me argues for something more exotic in
>order to emphasis the differences from earth.

You don't think a bit of tin pointing to the giant whirlpool in the centre of the (flat) earth is exotic?

>Given the solar nature of the sunscopes, perhaps they have two sorts
>of compasses, one that points towards the gates of dawn and one that
>points towards the gates of dusk.

Hey, maybe the Haralagan compass tracks the path of the sun from the gates of dawn to the gates of dusk. *Now* I know why their sea captains all have a pot with a sunflower in it on their poop decks!



Orlanth Humakt and Eurmal go into a bar..

Keith Nellist does his bit to stop the new po-faced Glorantha:

>Orlanth, Humakt and Eurmal go into a bar....

I liked 'em: now tell us the one about the travelling Issaries merchant and the Barntar peasant's daughter...



John Hughes

I concur heartily with Colin's comments about John's recent offerings:

>John Hughes fiction I thought was an awe inspiring read. If this was the
>quality of the writing for "Heroes of the King" project it is a shame
>that it never came to fruition.

Let me just say that the novella "Fires of Mist and Wind-Blown Snow", which John is tantalisingly quoting from, is **pharquing brilliant**, one of the finest Gloranthan writings I've ever read, right up there with CV Gidlow's "Seleric Verses". Hopefully someday it will get to be published and find the audience it deserves!

Cheers,

MOB


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