Re: from Sartar:KoH, being "drawn into" a heroquest

From: Manuel MOLINIER <manuel.molinier_at_3-ilbPQze_BcxZ5e2TKSXCKkmiMN-jSkzkQk3KiljxWv_mwv8q5nr4j5LycN>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 08:58:15 +0100

I agree and contemporary do not mean that the quests happen at the same time.
You can imagine the player nemesis running an heroquest in the past 0.5-10 years from the moment the hero are doing theirs. Or the adventurers defeating their extremely powerful nemesis in an heroquest because the nemesis attempted it much earlier in time. This could even bring a plot arc. The only way at a point to defeat their otherwise invincible opponent is to go on a hero quest and defeat him on that same quest where he gained his power. Then back in the normal world you can have a more mundane confrontation.

Manuel

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 8:46 AM, L C <lightcastle_at_Bb4I-ZDUXfpLOa2cX9TPpE4qYUGNvSppJ-9G9b4meJ0Odfrn04yKO0l8MawPjbUyEup8e-KXLJB2730Crg.yahoo.invalid> wrote:

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> I think in the Hero Plane this is very possible, and in the God Plane if
> you manage to get there. (Spirit and Essence as well, of course.)
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> I am all in favour of your HeroQuest opponent being from another time
> due to the timeless nature of such things. I think it is canon (oooh...
> using evil word!! ^__^)
> that one can acquire a HeroQuest opponent who recurs. (It certainly
> shows up in S:KoH, for instance, and I've seen it mentioned elsewhere.)
> Now, from a game point of view, it is probably best to make this a
> contemporary, so that the Heroes can confront this person on many
> levels, but really there is no reason for it to be true. In a story, I
> would happily make it a different time, and even in game you can do it
> if you plan it well. (Definitely a game that should have lots of
> HeroQuesting, though.)
>
> Imagine repeated questing and then finding out that entity you keep
> encountering behind different faces is in fact a God Learner!!! (Better
> yet, our Indiana Jones God Learner from another discussion!)
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> LC
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> Manuel MOLINIER wrote:
> > My own understanding was that most of the time the person you meet is on
> > their own heroquest from their own cult and acting as their god/hero.
> > As the God (and the Hero?) plane are outside of time it doesn't mean you
> are
> > facing people of your actual time when doing your quest.
> > This could be for example that a future Lunar hero is heroquesting and
> > impersonating one of lunar gods while meeting the characters
> impersonating
> > the storm tribe gods.
> >
> > But I might be totally mistaken as the concept of Heroquesting was
> totally
> > alien to me until recently.
> >
> > Manuel
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:43 AM, L C <lightcastle_at_Bb4I-ZDUXfpLOa2cX9TPpE4qYUGNvSppJ-9G9b4meJ0Odfrn04yKO0l8MawPjbUyEup8e-KXLJB2730Crg.yahoo.invalid<lightcastle%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
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