Re: Failure at the end of a HQ

From: David Dunham <david_at_...>
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 10:38:15 -0700


Roderick

> Orpheus
> has a successful HQ to Hades until he looks back to make sure Eurydice is
> following him - in game terms he rolled a fumble and he went to negative
> carryover (nasty quest event, that)).

I would count the "don't look back" as part of the quest itself: "Hades made a single condition: that Orpheus might not look behind him until she was safely back under the light of the sun."

Plenty of heroquests involve fleeing enemies, but I can't recollect any myth where the hero has trouble crossing back to the normal world after a success.

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David Dunham   <mailto:dunham_at_...>
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