Re: Re: Comparative mountains.

From: Sophie Lagace <anemone_at_...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:39:26 -0800


[Angry chief:] "Droppo, you are the laziest tracker in Glorantha! How could you possibly get lost?!"

[Droppo:] "Uummmmmm.... Fog?"

--
Sophie Lagacé



Mike Dawson wrote:


>
> --- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jane Williams"
> <janewilliams20_at_y...> wrote:
> > But Kero Fin... That's seven MILES high. 36,960 feet. Everest is only
> > 29,000 feet, and less spectacularly shaped. Kero Fin is serious
> > "goshwowlookatthat" territory, and there's nothing on Earth that
> > approaches it.
>
> Things like this make me wonder how anyone with normal eyesight ever
> gets lost in the
> open in Glorantha. There are several things to take bearings off of
> that are really obvious:
>
> The Gate of Dawn--the sun rises in the same place each day
> The Gate of Dusk--ditto for setting
> Rufelza--the moon rotates, but is fixed in the sky
> Pole Star--ditto
> The Block is "only" fractionally as outrageous as Kero Fin, but rises
> from a flat plain.
> and then Kero Fin, which is certainly "blued out" long before it ever
> disappear over any
> horizon, however you conceive of the horizon working.
>
> Other features are also excellent landmarks:Valind's Glacier, the
> various mountains
> mentioned, and so on.
>
>
>
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