From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@toppoint.de)
Date: Sun 28 Apr 1996 - 17:09:00 EEST
>MOB wrote:
>>Here's my response to the Onslaught Saga, which is taking on the guise of
>>a communally-written novel...
<Martin> <Laurie> <Laurie> <Man>:
>Which I rather liked actually with one exception:
>>She was a Healer woman - so what? Onslaught had killed them before;
>>it was usually cheap, quick and easy. This one had the temerity to
>>tell him, Onslaught, that pissing on that stand of narl flowers she
>>was gathering fouled their use as healing agents. Of course it
>>did!
>Wrong. He is a Humakti Sword and would never hurt a healer of Chalana Arroy.
Why not, for Humakt's sake? Ok, Arroin is a comparatively friendly cult, but
his cult doesn't wreak havoc on well-earned death with spells like
Resurrection and quests like the LBQ.
Do you mean that Onslaught, of all Humakti, has not been on the Lead Cross
Heroquest? Slay lots of healers to gain extra death powers seems to be in
his league... (and there seems to be a Babs Gor quest doing very similar
things, though to some other end. I forgot which one, but the Trickster gets
the Blood-to-Beer spell out of this carnage.)
>He would even leave a Deezola priestess alone, though he's not a big lunar fan.
Deezola is not a Healer by the closer definition. Her reusable Resurrection
is probably more suspect than that of CA to a hardline Death-obsessed
Humakti, since it is not balanced in the non-violence section. Deezola
priestesses can and will be combatants, and combatants are there to be killed.
>However, Onslaught is merely an NPC and a creation I put out. You can do what
>you like with him and to be honest, I think he'd do rather well in Danfive
>Xaron.
I can see him killing all the guardians of Hell while on ferrying service...
Julan vs Onslaught: I'd be interested to see this. Preferably somewhere far
from civilisation, say close to the Dead Place. Seriously, the Coders are
little better than Onslaught, the only point in their favour being their
firm attachment to the Lunar Empire restricting them in wantonness (a bit).
Should any of these ever trail into my (currently hibernating) campaign area
(Heortland near the Footprint), I'll give you an account of all the
nuisances bringing these near-heroes to gnash their teeth and lick a fair
sum of wounds.
No, I wouldn't kill them. But imagine Onslaught possessed by a POW 45
Compassion Spirit... That's what I loved about Brian Maloney's Megaera story
where she (a Babs Gor axemaiden) had to take the role of the Voria virgin
priestess.
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