Re: Clan-gen.

From: jeffkyer <jakyer_at_...>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:37:14 -0000

>
> CC:
> Also there's the odd wrinkle. Some attitudes _everyone_ gets -- why
> make it part of a "question" at all, then? Likewise, if no-one ends
> up with "Hate Dragons", and _everyone_ has "Fear Dragons", why
bother
> with the initial distinction? (I suppose the one purpose in either
case

It shows you where it comes from? And if your clan wasn't from the region, you might have differing attitudes.

> would be if one were using a mix-and-match set of questions for some
> particular special case circumstance.) As a result of the changes
> (and in some cases, apparently just for the heck of it!), some
questions
> seems to have very little 'determinative' value any more.

True. But these are "global" questions. Every heortling ancester was scarred by certain events...

A sort of 'where were you when you found out JFK had died' or, more modern, 'What were you doing on 9/11' - watershed events.  

> Still more (or bigger) pluses than minuses, though, and Damn Good
> Thing it's actually out there, now!
>
> Cheers,
> Alex.

Yeah. And you can derive your clan's other shrines/tenmples from the actions you chose fairly readily (but if they'd put THAT into the quiz it would have easily topped 40 pages - which is a bit much)

Jeff