From: Michael Cule (mikec@room3b.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue 03 Jun 1997 - 03:20:25 EEST
Paul Chapman <mercutio@btinternet.com> unwisely said:
> The Duck Point Ducks favour Humakt because Ducks look silly and have
> natural roguish or cowardly tendencies. This leads to a _lot_ of anti-duck
> racism, especially accusations of being disreputable and dishonest. This
> is mostly true, so it is thought that the seemingly-paradoxical tendency of
> Ducks to worship Humakt is to prove their honour, bravery, etc. to the
> world - they have something to prove. It is no doubt handy that the
> Humakti Ducks are around against incursions from Delecti's marshes, though!
I showed this do the boys down at the DOG AND ZOMBIE in Duckpoint.....
The only printable bits of their replies were:
"Look silly? Look SILLY? Just because we don't have all our flesh hanging
on the outside, just because our females don't have them great wobbly bits on
front, just because we have our warm covering (which keeps us dry too!) all
over instead of stuck on our heads where it's no use, he says we look silly?"
(There was some incomprehensible muttering here about someone's cousin Howard
who apparantly has a thing for human women...)
"Cowardly? Now that is the final insult! Send a sorcerer around to shrink HIM
to three foot in height and see how he likes facing Delicti's Undead Hordes.
Hah! And giving just the Humakti (very gracious of him) the credit for keeping
them back. What about the boatmen? Eh? Eh? What about the slingers and the
skirmishers? Eh? Eh?"
There was much more of this kind and I think that Paul should avoid Southern
Sartar and especially the riverine bits for a while. And beware of sudden
stabbing pains in the lower leg....
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Michael Cule
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