"Posselt, Theo (US - Foster City)" wrote:
>
> Oliver:
>
>
> Ok, that makes an awful lot of sense. two questions on this, now that
> we're
> straying off-topic. First, is it canonical that they have to have
> their
> hides to move up the psychic ranks? This seems a little odd, given
> that
> they're physically recreated with each resurrection. What if their
> old body
> just lost some scales - would they have to recover those as well.
Someone has stolen your body and is using it in a foul and perverse undraconic fashion.
Better kill them just to eliminate the un-good connection to the world of your past.
> second - actually this is a comment more than a question - who knows
> what a
> dragonnewt's reaction might be to being skinned. perhaps it would be
> good
> for it...
Invariably, it seems that the dragonnewt comes back to hunt down and kill the person who skinned their corpse. I suspect they'd be just as annoyed if you skinned them alive...
> > And heaven forfend that Glornatha be seen as silly! Actually, the
> > metaphysics of Toon appeal to me for Spirit World adventures...
>
> I always thought of Paranoia as being a good source for dealing with
> openhandist Mostali...
THE most scary line in paranoia: "Here, let me strap you in..."
> Jeff:
>
> > EVERYONE died in the 1100's. Everyone. And before that, the
> > Vingkotling
> > civilization was wiped out during the Chaos age. And during the
> Gabji
> > Wars, Dragon Pass was a stalemated battle-front.
> >
>
> Maybe I should have clarified more - I meant that I thought of Sartar
> as
> having been completely overgrown after all those wars (and the 300
> years
> without humans). So when the heortlings returned, they wouldn't see
> many
> signs of previous history.
Check into modern archeology -- its amazing how long even something as active and virulent as the Central American rainforest takes to obliterate something. Even after more than a few centuries of being abandoned, the Mayan ruins were still known and visible to the locals.
Even in ancient times, travelogues (such as that Pliny fellow) spoke of ruins long abandoned. What would happen if the heortlings stumbled over the equivalent of Maiden Castle? Hmm... They'd put it to use. After killing off the ghosts left behind.
> > Sort of like the Witch-world by Andre Norton (who seems to still be
> > alive!)
>
> Haven't read those, probably I should.
OLD material. SF/Fantasy from a byegone era. Good stuff but feels a
little dated at times.
Some of it is hard to find. But she was the master of 'alien
lifestyles' back when it was first being expolored. David Brin, Benford,
et all owe much to her. =) -- but that's getting OT. But my games over
the decades owe her much homage.
But one of the main plotlines is 'something left behind by more advanced/magical/eviler civilization is disturbed by fools/ignorant/greedy/seekers-after-wisdom and starts to react...
Jeff
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