In the event that the god concerned calls in the auditor daemons and checks out that Tostig's total earnings were really 25 cows and not the 10 cows that he claimed what then? Its not like divine disfavour can affect the illuminate.
I really prefer the simpler old-style solution that it was up to the community/heirarchy to spot the offence and deal with it by excluding the offender. Once you start saying that the god can directly respond to sub-standard worship I think you open a can of worms. IMG.
Anyway I think the example in ILH2 could have been better if these are the real rules because the multiple initiate/practitioner in the facing the all example is at 100% commitment if he has no practice spirits at all - over 100% if he has any.
Cheers,
Nic
> > The whole problem I have with this approach is that it relies on a
> > limitation on the way that the illuminate relates to a deity when I
> > thought that it was precisely such limitations that they transcended.
>
> As I've tried to explain, it doesn't. That 60% requirement is there to
> "handwave" all the small stuff that worship requires. It's little
rituals as
> well as attendance at holy days. It's doing things the way your God did
> them. It's the little prayers you say or hymns you hum under your
breath.
> Your work counts because you are doing it the way the God did, with
all the
> rituals and prayers and hymns and the like. If you do it "wrong",
you are
> not worshipping your god, you're just doing a job - and that doesn't
count
> towards your 60%. Performing the rituals for one god doesn't help
another
> god.
>
>
> > Obviously if a devotee should be spending 60% of their time in the
> > temple then people will notice that they are not there and
> > illumination gives no protection from such mundane notice. I still do
> > not understand how this limitation applies to devotees whose 60% for
> > one diety would *look* pretty much the same as for another deity to a
> > mundane observer.
>
> Because, while the actions may look pretty much the same, they
differ in
> details; and those details are the way that your "worship energy"
gets to
> the specific God in question.
>
> Sure, you can fool a casual, mundane observer, but you *can't* fool
the god
> whose rituals you are failing to perform. Heck, you can't even fool
someone
> that knows much about the god you're worshipping (has a "Myths of [X]"
> ability). That person would be able to tell that you're not
performing the
> right rituals.
>
> RR
> He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world
was mad
> R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
>
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