> On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 13:58:25 -0700, "Andrew Solovay"
> <asolovay_at_r...> wrote:
>
> >Just a thunk... Temple rituals on holy days are kind of hero-
questy,
> >right? The temple becomes an extension of the God Plane, the priest
> >embodies the god, all of that? So wouldn't it be plausible for a
> >character to wait until the next Holy Day and petition the god
directly?
> >(In essence, this would be "heroquest for the gift", like y'all
say--but
> >it's a nice, safe, easy heroquest, which your character has
already done
> >dozens of times.)
>
> And that's exactly what a HQ for a Feat is. You've seen it performed
> before, possibly many times for the common ones, during ceremonies,
> you've joined in too, but THIS time you forge a link with the Feat
(by
> spending a HP). The relative 'simplicity' of it is why I suggest you
> do NOT need to actually run it.
>
<jumping in late because as the player concerned I was avoiding the
thread>
I don't think we needed to run it, Andy wanted to run it.
My personal take on this is that there are different ways to re-enact
the myth behind any feat or gift. The simplest and most common is to
reenact it within the temple on a holy day, in which case the
opposition is symbolic the task fairly routine and there is little or
no risk to the quester. For the more ambitious you can go on a
heroquest in some place appropriate to the myth (the marsh in this
case) and face serious opposition and so risk taking real losses -
but with the chance of making greater gains as a consequence.
>
> And wouldn't that be true for the character too? Wouldn't they have
to
> DO a 'Sunset Leap', whatever it is? And therefore already KNOW what
it
> means, what it does, what it looks like?
Or perhaps they:
- steal it from a fire god who can leap towards the setting Yelm
- get shown how to do it by trickster who can do it in this myth
- trade for it from some deity with a general leaping ability who
may be willing to lose some small part of it in return for a boon.
etc.
Of course if you can't think of a way then don't run it!
--
Nic