- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Michael Hitchens
<michaelh_at_...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, valkoharja wrote:
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> > --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, Michael Hitchens
> > <michaelh_at_> wrote:
> >
> >> is a "normal" flaw, could an ogre "buy it down"? What happens to an
> >> ogre who doesn't crave human flesh, let alone eat it?
> >>
> >> Michael
> >
> > I'd say an ogre can't buy down the flaw without serious magical
> > conditioning. An ogre trying to become a human is like trying to raise
> > a polar bear as a pet. In theory it can work, especially when it's
> > still just a cute bear-cub. Ultimately it's a man eating predator
> > though, and at some point it will propably just "snap", maul it's
> > owner and eat him/her.
> >
> > If an ogre decides to become a human, he/she has to do some serious
> > heroquesting. Go to the beginning of the ogres in the greater
> > darkness, and survive without resorting to cannibalism and chaos
> > worship, I'd say... and not get eaten by the ancestral ogres.
>
> Fair enough - and much more interesting than just buying down a flaw.
> But if they do, would they cease to be chaotic - in practical terms,
for
> example, not show up on Storm Bull's chaos sense?
>
> Michael
I would say so. On a lesser success in the quest, the ogre meight stop
crawing human flesh (not be an ogre then actually), but have to resort
to chaos to survive anyway, like having to feed on badly mutated
animals or plants in the greater darkness...
So parhaps one could get a partial success. Instead of an ogre, the
quester would end up a slightly chaotic human, like the Telmori.