Challenging Humakt

From: Greg Stafford <Greg_at_...>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:21:13 -0800


Several questions have been bandied about on this.

>> Only if you challenge a god in his area of
>> expertise. If
>> you challenge Humakt to a riddling contest he's
>> going to
>> be on something like 13 with his Truth affinity as a
>> penalty rather than a bonus.

He's got no reason to contest you at chess or riddling. He wouldn't bother. You
want to challenge him, it's on his terms. Sure, there might be a place where some other challenge is possible, but unlikely at something important.

> If you want a non-lethal challenge, a game of chess is
> a traditional answer (be careful, he's good at it).
>
> Thinking about how Humakt's been defeated in the past,
> you may be best off looking at the "Eurmal nicks
> Death" approach, and just hoping the consequences get
> delayed a bit.

You'll have to have your Eurmali skills way up there too. And who is going to trust Eurmal to tell the right things to do, the right place
to be, the right challenges to make...

> Subject: Harrek and god-killing
>
>> To look at it another way--Harrek made himself the
>> terror of the
>> lozenge by beating and skinning the White Bear
>> Spirit. I'm willing
>> to assume the White Bear is pretty darned tough, in
>> his way, but
>> he's no Humakt, is he? So if you want to take on
>> Humakt, why don't
>> you warm up by beating up Harrek. That shouldn't be
>> so hard, should it, god-killer?
>
> It does seem to be an example of how this sort of
> thing can be done.
>
> Though if Harrek came back with an actual skin to be
> worn, doesn't that mean he was on the HeroPlane, not
> the God Plane? Or did he get an ability of "have skin
> like big white bear"?

The White Bears are extinct (out competed by trolls) and they were when he went
after this guy too. But he brought a white skin with him, of course, came back with The white skin.



Sincerely,
Greg Stafford

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