Re: Chilly kings' halls as bomb shelters

From: Joerg Baumgartner <joe_at_...>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 22:25:01 +0200 (CEST)

Jane Williams
>> >Broyan and co were hiding out in some spare Short World afterwards,
>> >weren't they? Some king's hall that was terribly cold: I should know
>> >this, and my memory is going blank on me.

>> I remember mention of this but not much in the way of details. My
>> impression was that most people left well before the final assault
>> and Broyan left with his bodyguard and maybe a few others at the
>> last minute by going to the short world.

>> Is it perhaps an otherworld copy of the King's hall in WW and the
>> only way in and out is through the mundane world one? So he has
>> to wait until the Lunars have scaled down their presence before
>> he can sneak out past them. It's cold because it's winter and
>> Orlanth is dead.

> I found it! I'd put a copy on the Swords Wiki, of all places.

> Jonstown Compendium #1,483
> What Alfgar Whitecloak, chieftain of the Gray Fox Clan of the Sambari,
> heard from a man in Backford:

<snip>
> Sounds pleasant and hospitable :)

All you need is a bit of Ernalda magic - the trick Ivarne Frozen Woman used to survive the Darkness until rescued by Heort.

Of course, that implies you have a rescuer (who will marry the rescuee afterwards?). Which might be the task of a player character (in either position).