Nick:
>Here is a BIG SECRET from "Life of Moonson":
>Any character who came to the referees at the appropriate juncture (i.e.
>after Argenteus' death) and asked if they could please have a Mandate of the
>Moon, would receive one.
Aha, not much of a mandate then, is it?
>No character ever knows this, unless they try it.
There is no suprise in me that this wasn't attempted. From the players perspective, the RE dies and suddenly there is chaos. The referees describe the mandates from the moon and mysterious envelopes that only certain player have or receive. Those sad characters without said envelopes are doubly baffled and are excluded from the process, because, after all, if they were to be included according to the GMs writing of the plot, then they too would have had an envelope.
>Certain characters are
>pre-loaded with hidden Mandates of the Moon (revealed when Moonson dies);
>just two characters (Yolanela pp. one of her sons, and Haroun al-Rastari,
>Sultan of Kostaddi) possess them at the start of the game.
Yes
>No player ever tried this. But the referees all agreed that this was how it
>would be handled, if it had happened.
>Zat help?
Not really no. It would have helped if I'd known that previous claimants had done it, but without that foreknowledge I was reacting to events instead of creating them. If I'd known I could have done this, I would have done it in a flash.
>If a zany Dara Happan Nationalist faction had created itself
>(Mothers Guard, Imperial Senate, Lunar Academy, Cult of Danfive Xaron...),
>they could have had any character you care to name as their candidate. Worse
>things happened in play -- the UK run's "Dark Empire" faction still give me
>nightmares.
Okay. Wasn't aware of this.
Martin Laurie
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