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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Mon, 28 Jun 1993, part 1
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From: paul@phyast.pitt.edu
Subject: The Plane Truth, part 1
Message-ID: <9306272345.AA04118@bondi.phyast.pitt.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 93 23:45:29 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1178
< Boss, I have penetrated the so-called 'Inner Circle' but I think there
may be a layer below it! The old guy in grey leads the IC like we thought,
but I don't know who, if anyone, gives orders to Red - she seems to come
and go without regard to anyone else, including O.G. In any case, here is
the summary of the doctrine they spout in the Inner Circle. It doesn't
sound like much but when you're Down There it's oddly compelling to hear
this stuff - it feels somehow like you're _outside_ of time and their
story is how it REALLY happened. Could be ab-juju as the Uz say, but
when the old guy gets onto preaching _I_ start to believe
him. I'm losing my sense of reality - there is something _strange_
about those tunnels where the I.C. meets. Enclosed is a picture of the
Altar chamber. I don't know how accurate it really is - they could have
something that fools Darksight.
I don't know how long I can keep this up. I'm sure the old guy has
Mindlink or something like it and it's hard to watch my thoughts _all_
the time. One slip up and I'm a goner. Get me out of here!
All hail DX, etc.
PS. I sent the rest of the information under separate cover using the old
drop procedure. I don't know if I'll be able to communicate again, the
I.C. is pretty closely watched. GMOoH! >
The GREAT GODDESS
Many and glorious are the works of the goddess. She is all-powerful
and is known to us in three great aspects and a myriad of lesser
forms. The great goddess as
Glorantha created the world; as Arachne Solara she preserves it and as
Krarsht the Devourer will she destroy this world. All that Krarsht
consumes is remembered and will be used for the regeneration of the
world. Our world has been recreated from the ashes of previous
incarnations many times; what the Goddess devours will be and has been
recreated many times. Krarsht is patient and will eat each creature in the
proper time, holding them in her Womb of Rebirth until the recreation of
the world. Only through being consumed by the Goddess can one's soul
survive the destruction and re-creation of the world.
In Godtime the world was attacked by the forces of entropy which came
out of the Void. The Void is without law or rules and holds every possible
world. The vital worlds are infinitesimal compared to the expanse of the
Void. Half-beings live on the fringes of the real worlds, hungering for true
existence. One such was Wakboth the Evil. Misguided would-be deities
gave him entry into our world by calling him in and giving him form and
substance out of their own. He created a great army. Krarsht at that time
had not come to her full strength. By guile she defended the world. She
seduced one half of Wakboth's forces into following her and led them
against the unbreakable troll stronghold. They were destroyed and she
slipped away as planned. The High Trolls must know the truth and yet they
allow their minions to fight the servants of the devouring goddess. They
are not to be trusted.
Krarsht remembers all and we share in her memory. In Godtime there
arose mighty sorcerors in the west. Some of them followed true learning.
Others saw the quick path to power - to take from others the strength
which was rightfully theirs. These sorcerors used their native powers to
awe ignorant masses and had themselves worshipped as gods. This
worship gave them even greater power. But this power was a trap; as they
gained power they had to give up their selfhood until they fit the image of
the legends they themselves had created. Now they are the captives of
their worshippers and their worshippers are their slaves in a vicious chain
of worship and degradation. Among the mightiest of these false gods are
Worlath, now known as Orlanth, and Ehilm, now called Yelm. The tales
their priests tell are virtually all lies with only the tiniest grain of truth
at the core. Worshippers who die in the service of these gods are stripped
of their memory and personality and used as grotesque power sources by
the priests to shore up the reputation of their false gods. Only Krarsht can
save these sad creatures by devouring them and their so-called gods and
returning their stolen minds and power to them in the re-creation that is
to come.
Three ages of the world have past and three are yet to come. The freedom
brought by Time is an illusion but a comforting one. Our world is doomed
to replay the folly of the Gods Age before the Plan can be completed. The
False Gods interrupted the cycle of creation by sabotaging the coming of
the sixth and highest element. Six is the perfect number. In each
re-creation of the world, six ages are to be experienced. The great powers
of Godtime failed and let chaos into the closed cycle of the world,
disrupting the progress planned by the Goddess. We who live in Time must
fight to succeed where our predecessors failed. Only in this way can our
flawed creation be consumed and reborn in a more perfect state.
The First Age is the Age of Darkness and ours ended in the Darkness
brought by Arkat the Destroyer. The Second Age is the Age of Water and
was destroyed in Water with the sinking of Jrustela. Our age is the Age of
Earth and will end in Earth. The Fourth Age will be like the Golden Age of
Godtime. For five centuries the world will live in peace and light. Mankind
will be happy but they will fall away from the worship of the Goddess.
Only a few true believers will be left. But ever will the children of the
Goddess wait and be patient far beneath the Surface.
Then will peace be shattered. The Fifth Age, the Age of Storm, will come
after the great fires destroy the world. Mankind will be a pitiful remnant
and monsters of the Outer Dark will freely roam the Earth. At the end,
Worlath will dominate all but his victory will be an empty one. Glorantha
will be a vast storm-swept wasteland and all will suffer.
But Worlath will perish in his own winds. The Perfect One will return to
heal the Daughter of the Great Goddess. The Shattered Moon will reunite
and the White Moon will rise. The broken body of Glorantha will be healed
and a thousand years of peace and harmony will pass. This is the Sixth
Age, the Age of Perfection the true Lunar Age.
Then when the world is healed will the Goddess rise to devour all.
Krarsht's true name will be revealed at the end of Time. When the world is
consumed, the Goddess will be alone in the Void. Then will she give birth
to the new world. Those who served her in this life will be well rewarded
in the new creation.
This is the Way and the Plan. Those who threaten the Goddess threaten
the survival of our world. They must be killed. We hope that in their next
incarnation they will see the error of their ways.
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From: awr0@aberystwyth.ac.uk
Subject: Hey Dudes
Message-ID: <9306281014.AA02701@uk.ac.aber.fronta>
Date: 28 Jun 93 12:14:18 GMT
X-RQ-ID: 1179
In our campaign, seeing as it was comming to the end of our years together...
We entered the lost city of Fronela and woke up a few God Learners, but had
to teleport out of there. So if ya go down to Corflu, watch out...they're
awake and a waiting for you!
All in all, it was pretty damm cool!
Adam