From: RuneQuest-Request@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RQ Digest Maintainer) To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (Daily automated RQ-Digest) Reply-To: RuneQuest@Glorantha.Holland.Sun.COM (RuneQuest Daily) Subject: RuneQuest Daily, Thu, 10 Mar 1994, part 2 Sender: Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM Content-Return: Prohibited Precedence: junk --------------------- From: sandyp@idcube.idsoftware.com (Sandy Petersen) Subject: re: RQ Daily Message-ID: <9403092054.AA17521@idcube.idsoftware.com> Date: 9 Mar 94 08:54:31 GMT X-RQ-ID: 3276 Graeme Willoughby asks: >4/ How far has the reassembly of Genert progressed? Surely the land >goddesses, Orlanthi and praxians all help in his reconstruction and >hyenas must be virtually extinct all across Genertela. My understanding is that Genert's return is currently losing ground -- i.e., he is LESS reassembled this year than he was, say, in 1600. His body is continually being attacked and devoured by chaos things, and the rate of "reassembly" is thus hindered, or even reversed. No doubt this is because of the upcoming Hero Wars, which will tend to destroy the entire cosmos. The land goddesses can do nothing to assist his reassembly. They are bound by Time. Genert's resurrection is probably impossible anyway, since he was killed by Chaos. The Orlanthi do little or nothing to assist his reassembly -- the only "Orlanthi" who are forced to do this are the adherents of a single subcult of Issaries, and they generally regard this as an onerous burden rather than a glorious, if hopeless, quest. The Praxians do nothing to assist Genert's reassembly. His death is part of the Way Things Are. They know his resurrection is impossible. Hyenas are doing just fine in Prax. They are the main predator of the Wastes. Some Orlanthi try to kill them on sight, because of the curse they represent for that Issaries subcult, but no one goes hunting the worthless beasts on purpose, and there are few Orlanthi in the Wastes. --------------------- From: euregemon@aol.com Subject: RQ Adventures #3 Message-ID: <9403091628.tn374663@aol.com> Date: 9 Mar 94 21:28:24 GMT X-RQ-ID: 3277 I just received RQ Adventures #3. I especially enjoyed the cover art which shows a view of The Block on the distant horizon. The art is dark (too dark?), but I rationalize that the viewing is at twilight. Nick, this looks like a start for what you want.... --------------------- From: devinc@aol.com Subject: Random Speculation: The Block Message-ID: <9403092023.tn381331@aol.com> Date: 10 Mar 94 01:23:29 GMT X-RQ-ID: 3278 Devin Cutler here: Thought I'd throw out an off the wall question for some ideas. What would happen if the Block suddenly disappeared? Now, I do not mean answers such as: 1) The Uroxi would be pissed off 2) A family of griffins would come crashing to the ground in their sleep 3) etc. What I mean is, specifically, would Wakboth be able to rise again? Uroxi dogma would have us believe that the Block is what is keeping the Devil under wraps. But is this really so? My uderstanding of the reading in COT is that when Storm Bull killed the Devil, he, like everyone else, went down into Hell, and there was entrapped (and devoured?) by Arachne Solara. The above would presume to have nullified the Devil, either by destroying it or entrapping it, or, at the very least, would suggest that Wakboth was enwrapped in the Compromise and therefore could not just will-nilly rise up and stomp all over the earth again. So which is it? Is it the Block that holds back Wakboth or Time? Just wondering, Devin Cutler devinc@aol.com --------------------- From: henkl@yelm (Henk Langeveld - Sun Nederland) Subject: TOTRM #11 received: Pamaltela issue Message-ID: <9403100802.AA03498@yelm.Holland.Sun.COM> Date: 10 Mar 94 10:02:14 GMT X-RQ-ID: 3279 Just got issue 11 of Tales. Lots of stuff from John Hughes. Good stuff Plug: For a good read on the songlines, read Bruce Chatwin. -- Henk | Henk.Langeveld@Sun.COM - Disclaimer: I don't speak for Sun. oK[] | My first law of computing: "NEVER make assumptions" ---------------------