>Been out of town, but I saw on the Digest that you
>won't be running HW at the next Con at least.
There are no *scheduled* "Hero Wars" events at Origins or GenCon, period. Issaries will in theory have demos running, most likely at their joint booth with Chaosium and Green Knight, at both conventions. I offered to demo, Greg never answered, and as such I've taken it upon myself to run however many "Hero Wars" demos that time and circumstance allow. If Greg will not take the time to evangelize on behalf of Issaries, I certainly will.
>But there's an eminently suitable myth to cull from:
>the Keet Migration Epic.
Oh yes... my preference for an adventure surrounding the Keets was inspired by that myth and my fondness for their much-maligned continental clutchmates. I even loosely fleshed out some keywords, based around traits I conjectured might be culturally appropriate to the different Keet subspecies. My personal favorite is the "Albatross Futilitarian", adherent of a martial school of mysticism (inspired by the physical and ideological concepts of passive resistance as expressed by Tae Chi and Mahatma Gandhi, respectively) based on the notion that active or aggressive resistance is useless. All active effort or opposition, according to Futilitarian thought, is doomed to fail. Its chief discipline could be considered "Refute Striving". :)
>Keets of today are faced with an overwhelming invading
>force [and] heroquest to stop it. From there you have
>two paths... do the mystic thing and refute the myth to
>gain powers of defense.
Oddly enough, as I conceived the Futilitarian school of Albatross mysticism mentioned above, they originated exactly for that purpose: to refute the Migration. The ancestral Albatross, from whom all modern Albatross are decended, chose not to flee or fight the Bezarngay Boil, instead choosing to squat in the sand, clear its minds of contentiousness, and let the seas flow around and past it harmlessly. Opponents of the Futilitarian school among the Albatross and other Keets contend that its foundation tale is nothing more than a myth disguised as a mystical truth, and have (thus far unsuccesfully) attempted to refute it. The Futilitarians, true to form, have maintained a strict policy of non-cooperation with debaters of the issue, thus fueling the controversy even further.
Michael Schwartz mschwartz_at_mindspring.com Ann Arbor, MI USA
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