Re: Enemies in a heroquest

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:08:40 -0700


At 05:02 PM 9/19/2002 -0000, you wrote:
>Is there any way to deliberately enter another's heroquest and take
>the role of one of their opponents if you know the right myth? So if
>Halgar is doing the 'Seven Leaps to Freedom' and his nemesis Oddi
>finds out and knows the 'Battle of Blood Falls' on that myth is same
>Red Waterfall as when he does 'Enesti wooes the river', can he
>perform 'Enesti' with the objective of meeting Halgar, ambushing him,
>and preventing him succeeding at 'Seven Leaps'?

Yes.

>If so how does Oddi get to enact the quest so that he appears in it
>Halgar's quest at the right moment?

Worships right, or uses the right formula, or gets the right blessing.

>Do the questers draw themselves
>together via their personal emnity, and if so does this make it
>difficult to disrupt quests in this way without that relationship?

Yes, they draw each other.
Yes, disrupting a heroquester whom you do not know personally is the same as any old one, really, though they may lose this time.

>Opinions?

YGMV.



Greg Stafford, greg_at_...
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