[Glorantha] When Kallyr was a duck?

From: John Hughes <nysalor>
Date: Fri Apr 13 11:00:04 2007

I may be one source of this scurrilous tidbit. Way back at the turn of the eighties, when California seemed very far away and precious few fanzines (or any zines) ever made it here to Up Over, my friend David Wanless ran a school RQ campaign that would eventually be the base for the Wyrm's Footprint and the Ironspike campaigns.

Photocopies of photocopies of Wyrm's Footnotes suggested *something* was happening in Sartar called Starbrow's Rebellion. There were no details, except, (I think) a note in the new RQ2 rulebook that mentioned that a bounty on ducks was an outcome of the rebellion.

Put one and one together and you come up with ten . (Yes, David was a computer scientist). QED Starbrow was a duck. I mean, it *sounds* like a duck doesn't it? Sartar rebels and ducks get the blame. Obvious really. And Apple Lane was regarded with high-seriousness back then, not to mention the already legendary Duck Tower and Return to Duck Tower.

Now I suspect it was just Greg attempting a final solution to the duck problem. As if.

I often repeat the anecdote as a tribute to never letting mere facts get in the way of a good story or a great campaign. And I'm sure the error was repeated by other groups as well.

YKWV. With feathers and bells.

John

Jane Williams wrote:
> Yes, I really would like a serious answer to this, as
> well as all ths silly ones I'm sure I'll get. The
> original reference to Kallyr being a duck. Where and
> when was it? Ideally I'm after Gloranthan dates and
> places rather than / as well as real-world ones.
>
> Yes, I really do think that within certain limits, I
> can make this work, with no clashes at all with any
> source. So I'd better make sure I'm using that primary
> idea correctly, or it all becomes remarkably
> pointless.
>
>

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"There was a muddy centre before we breathed.  There was a myth before the myth began,  Venerable and articulate and complete.

 From this the poem springs: that we live in  a place That is not our own and, much more,  not ourselves, And hard it is in spite of  blazoned days."

Wallace Stevens. "Notes Towards A Supreme Fiction"   Received on Fri 13 Apr 2007 - 09:35:29 EEST