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, Wed, 27 Jul 1994, part 3 Sender: Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM Content-Return: Prohibited Precedence: junk --------------------- From: joe@sartar.toppoint.de (Joerg Baumgartner) Subject: Re:vulsions Message-ID:Date: 27 Jul 94 06:43:04 GMT X-RQ-ID: 5312 Tuesday, and no short Convulsions comments on the Daily? I just returned after 1300 km and about as many minutes from Convulsions, and still am a bit (a lot) exhausted. First of all, it was lots of fun to meet all of you present, and to exchange words instead of email messages with you. Under the guidance of Henk we even developed the ultimate thread resolution method - I hope Hans will manage the jpeg of my memorable final argument with Alex about Aeolians, Initiation etc from the Trollball ditches. So, down to the details: Accommodation: good. Beer: good, but the bar dried up too early. Convulsions: great. Discussions: lots, mainly off the panels, (I'll spare you the rest of the alphabet.) I arrived at Friday morning, 6 o'clock, directly from the boat from Dover. We managed to sneak into a common breakfast with the guests and guestettes, and to occupy our rooms early, so Ingo was ready to display all of our products when the rest of you came. I started the interesting part by sneaking off to a pub with Sandy and Greg Fried, learning lots about the East of Glorantha and other matters in the process. Nick Brooke redirected us to another pub before the official opening, where this time Tarsh was my field of battle^H^H^H^H^H^H discussion with Chris Gidlow, Nick et al. Then Convulsions 94 were declared opened. I decided to leave the Cthulhu Party Party preparations early to meet other regulars of the Daily, but I still have Ken Rolston's (aka Great Cthulhu) "Feed me" with our thundering "Eat me now!" replies and the voting song "We are the Food, We are the Gruel" (melody by M. Jackson) in my ears. The RQ Renaissance panel was somewhat ambivalent to my expectations; neither the future of RQ nor Glorantha publications were made very clear. The situation between Chaosium and AH still seems to be difficult, however both parties seem to be eager to get both RQ and Glorantha pushed. I wish they'd push harder instead... Special topic was the fate of RQ:AiG, which caused some heated discussion between the panel and the daily punters. I hope David Cheng had his recorder ready - I forgot to bring mine. David, if you intend to have transcripts made, look out for volunteers - I might (if only for getting access to an acoustic copy of one of your recordings ), there might be others as well. Later I found a willing victim for my Dragon Pass boardgame fantasies and fell victim myself... The bar room, although cut off liquid reserves, kept a lot of us up deep into the night. Saturday saw me again at the Breakfast (a really important social component of the con), after which it became physical - the Life Action All European Trollball Championship. Showing our disregard for Yelm's searing rays, four teams had assembled to go for the championship. Several memorable moments occured, like when the giant referee slipped in my squishy remains and caused a small earthquake. Too bad the audience was so rude to abstain from throwing missiles... Directly after the four team all for one game (the winner was the last troll standing - actually crawling to the touchdown...) Henk presided over the ultimate innovation for resolving endless Daily discussions. Alex and I fought out our initiation and Heortland debate, where each hit scored was followed by a statement of proof. "Wizards in Heortland", yeah! Details hopefully available as 3 minute jpeg on soda soon. I missed Eat at Geos :-( Then there was How The West Was One. The to-be-sainted Notslor had called all of us bishops, knights etc. to Sog City. I cannot go into the details now... In the break I managed to sneak into the heroquest panel which was a continuation of our Daily debates, involving non-netters as well. (Imagine: there are RuneQuesters without Internet access!) Another informal meeting in the bar room carried over as endless discussion into the morning... Sunday began with a breakfast again. Afterwards there were lots of panels. I missed most of them, such as the Nick Brooke Cultural Exchange, but I couldn't afford to miss the Meet the Digest event. After being properly chastised, I promised to be good (for a while...) Then came the Lore Auction. I invested almost ten pounds, we learned that apart from the six questions Greg won't answer there is another type of trick questions like: "apart from 'What are the six questions you won't answer', 'What's the God Learner Secret', etc., what's one of the questions you won't answer?", and that there are questions to which Greg doesn't know the answer. Once again David Cheng was recording our dialogs... I missed most of Greg's Address - trollball makes real hungry if you mustn't eat the trollkin. Then came The Auction. Vast amounts of money and goodies were traded. Did anybody manage to record the prizes? Too bad I missed parts of it - Greg's newest writings went for amazingly fair prices, and boy they look great from just flipping through them. I really should have bidded for them... Still I managed to get half of the RQ2 stuff I was missing for not too high bids. Respects to David Cheng, he was the most aggressive auctioner I've ever seen. The closing ceremony wasn't the end of it all - afterwards we had the ultimate Griselda experience: Oliver Dickinson read from "The Matchmaker", a sequel to "The Hero Bit", and part of his contribution to the Sartar book, a Griselda story told differently... We learned a new Griselda song, too. The Story Telling Final followed; I hope to see the stories I missed on the digest soon. Lewis promised his winner story about Vinga and Eurmal would come soon. Then Greg read (egged on and on, much more than originally planned) from his pre-Solar Pelorian myths. If you thought you knew what happened in Godtime Peloria from GRoY, you learned how wrong you were. The myths came right from the soil... Once again, the evening ended late in the night. I heard that some people actually managed to play RuneQuest or other games during Convulsions. Where did they steal that time? I feel I missed half of the "must" acts myself... Loads of fun, I still haven't quite recovered (for one thing, my throat still is sore from all the debate. You thought I write long? Talk to me, then...). As an epilogue: Monday afternoon in London we visited Forbidden Planet, and guess who we met there - almost half the foreign country attendees of Convulsions... -- -- Joerg Baumgartner joe@sartar.toppoint.de ---------------------