Re: Re: Childbirth

From: Light Castle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:13:13 -0400


On 17 Jul 2004 at 21:36, Graeme P. Bell wrote:  

> Not so, I'm afraid. Trolls have difficult births too. Even worse are
> Trollkin litters and *shudder* great troll births.

Yeah, but is that specifically from the curse from the battle of night and day?  

> In the RuneQuest days, Xiola Umbar gave the spell "Couvade", which had
> the effect of taking the all the pain and sickness of pregnancy from
> the mother and dumping it on the father. Of course it had to be
> voluntary, but just imagine what would happen to a male troll who
> refused...

Hee hee.  

> Alryami grow from seeds, so they don't have that problem. Mostali...
> will have mechanised the whole process (probably with a machine that
> goes "Ping!").

That's what I understood, yes.

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