Re: Re: What's The Story? Under the Red Moon Challenge

From: donald_at_...
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:53:22 GMT


In message <fs64qb+tnhu_at_...> "ttrotsky2" writes:
>--- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
><janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
>>
>> The window - what is that metalwork in it? What does the pattern
>mean? Are those curtains, with tiebacks?
>
>Certainly look it to me, yes.
>
>> Two big candleholders and one smaller, very big candles and a lot of
>them, tables, that weird chair, and even what's acting as a coffee table
>
>Large wooden chest against one wall as well (I couldn't even see that
>at all until I played about with the image to enhance the brightness);
>looks fairly strong, so while it could just be a chest for clothing or
>the like, it might equally well hold something more valuable. Which,
>again, suggests you're right about this being somewhere high status.

The chest is metal bound so it isn't clothing or linen.

>It also strikes me that the fact there's two spears by the door may be
>significant. This isn't an armoury, so somebody has probably stacked
>them there recently. They aren't with the other weapons, which
>suggests to me that there are (or were until recently) at least two
>other people in the room - excluding anyone who we'd expect to be
>unarmed, of course.

>> That cup on the floor - is that wine spilt from it? It's red,
>yes.... I can't really tell on this screen, but it looks the wrong
>shade to be wine, and it's flowed like something thicker.
>
>The enhanced brightness image makes that look more likely, I have to
>say...

It has all flowed out of the cup so thin wine seems most likely. What surprises me is that if the cup was thrown down it hasn't broken. It could belong to the man standing there who has just discarded it and folded his arms. It's not Kallyr's because there's another on the table beside her chair. And they're big for cups - looks like about a pint. Equally the helmet by Kallyr's chair could be hers, she placed it on the floor by the chair and has just kicked it over.

My feeling is that Kallyr has brought the strange chair, the chest, the image of Sartar and grain to this place for a ritual. Dressed in this fancy outfit - not only the armour which fits her well but those semi-gloves which I've only ever seen with posh frocks. And she's not only annoyed, she's afraid. Possibly she has just told her companions what she's planning and one of them has asked if she's out of her mind. So is she afraid of what's involved? or that her companions will try to stop her?

That chair appears to be the key to what the ritual is about, does anyone recognise the carved heads? They seem to have at least two faces, maybe four.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/

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