From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer)
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Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 23 Sep 1993, part 2
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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.
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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?
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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