From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 23 Sep 1993, part 2 Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Sender: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM Precedence: junk The RuneQuest Daily and RuneQuest Digest deal with the subjects of Avalon Hill's RPG and Greg Stafford's world of Glorantha. Send submissions and followup to "RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM", they will automatically be included in a next issue. Try to change the Subject: line from the default Re: RuneQuest Daily... on replying. Selected articles may also appear in a regular Digest. If you want to submit articles to the Digest only, contact the editor at RuneQuest-Digest-Editor@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM. Send enquiries and Subscription Requests to the editor: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Henk Langeveld) --------------------- From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au Subject: Moon Boats Message-ID: <01H3A73NTWD0AELGIE@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 23 Sep 93 19:31:42 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1795 G'day all, There's been a bit of discussion about Moon Boats in the Digest of late. I sent this a while back, but I thought I'd put my oar in again... From the forthcoming (we hope) release STRANGERS IN PRAX: Moon Boats The famous flying Moon Boats are used by the Empire to carry messengers, important passengers and occasionally troops over great distances. They travel on and are propelled by special beams of moonlight, focussed from the Red Moon itself. Inside the Glowline, where the moon is always full, moon boats are reliable and very fast: boats regularly travel from Elz Ast on the mouth of the Oslir to Furthest at the river's southern reaches in less than a week. Outside the Glowline moon boats are less effective, as their motive power depends on the strength of the moon. During the full moon period, a Moon Boat beyond the Glowline can travel at the same speed it does inside the border, about 120km per day. As the moon begins its phases, this speed is cut in half each day, until the Black Moon when the moonbeam is extinguished and the boat cannot travel at all. During this period the Moon Boat is forced to land and must wait until the Red Moon turns its face again the following night. Moon Boats are particularly vulnerable when this occurs, which is why they do not often cross the magical border. One notable excursion was in 1589, when a squadron of Moon Boats defied the Syndics Ban and brought Lunar missionaries to the Fronelan city of Eastpoint, where the populace received them with alacrity. Moon Boats are built using a secret process, in a special factory at Haranshold in the Darjin Sultanate. They are made from a special wood, harvested exclusively in the Yolp Mountains and then heavily enchanted. They resemble the sleek oar-driven galleys often seen on the Oslir and Poralistor rivers, but without the oars or a mast. The stern of a Moon Boat is drawn up very high, while the bows taper to a fine point. Moon Boats require a crew of a dozen, all members of the Red Goddess cult. It takes many years of diligent application to learn the magical formulas and techniques required to become the Pilot of a Moon Boat; this person is always a powerful Monitor. The Moon Boat carrying the Coders passed through the Glowline and made for Boldhome, resting at this safe haven during the Black Moon phase. It was here the Coders embarked. The boat then left on its 300 kilometer journey to Pavis the following night, as the moon passed from Black to Crescent-come. It arrived in Pavis six-and-half days later, just before the moon turned Black again, perfectly timed by its Pilot so the craft would not have to spend any time down on the plains among the hostile nomads. --------------------- From: glidedw@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Donald Wilton) Subject: Re: RuneQuest Daily, Wed, 22 Sep 1993, part 2 Message-ID:Date: 22 Sep 93 10:16:04 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1796 Donald, apprentice of Lord Sagon, sorcery magus: As I understand it, and I hold no greater knowledge than the 3/4 required in that area, to achieve independent status (for knowledge of the skills is but part of the needed whole, to achieve that worthy position), the world does not end. You can achieve an alteration of the normal flows of magic, a change in the definition of the world, but total obliteration can not happen. so some idito female diety is gone, so what? --------------------- From: mcarthur@fit.qut.edu.au (Mr Robert McArthur) Subject: Cradle scenario? Message-ID: <199309230035.UAA01617@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au> Date: 23 Sep 93 15:35:47 GMT X-RQ-ID: 1797 Having heard much on the digest about the giants cradle scenario, I managed to buy a copy of RoC (over here in Aust). Lo and behold, no cradle! (very good pack though and a nice play anyway). Sooooooo, Vere Ist Da Cradle?!?! Can some illuminated soul answer this riddle (well, conundrum anyway). Robert