Re: Digest Number 519

From: Jeff <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:16:22 -0000

>
> > Um, I'd say if its the size of an elephant (bigger actually but
> > probably has less usable meat on it by weight)... I seeem to
> > recall reading that an elephant, properly butchered, will feed a
> small
> > village (read your big stead) for about 2-3 weeks. Call it 8
> bushels
> > or so.
>
> 50 people, 20 days, 2000 meals. Indeed, an elephant should do that.
> My, how do you eat an elephant rib ? (sorry, this is outside the ML
> main subject).

I'd reccomend a barbeque sauce and a mallet to break them off. Of course, its not like they were marrow-bones.

> > Heck, I'd be out selling the bitz. =)
>
> aha ! They didn't thought that way, being afraid of chaos corruption
> (I guess they got that right from the very beginning) But indeed,
some

No problem. Gotta think like a heortling -- there's no corner store where you can go down and get your eye-of-newt and toe-of-lunar. So the sorcer....er... magician of quality has to go and forage.

There's probably a minor business/character concept to be had in a travelling purveyor of 'bitz' but I would suspect that would work better in the more settled and organized West.

> old spirit-talker or other might well do that (which may bother the
> dragon-spirit). Oh, what a nice idea ! In some weeks or months, they
> may well have problems with that, draconic dreams all over the place
> because it wasn't put to rest as they thought.

Good conclusion. Always glad to inflict pain on other playgroups vicariously. Otherwise I'd inflict it ALL on my group and that would just be heartless....

....which brings me to another Ritual. =)

Jeff