From: Hasni Mubarak (richo@epix.net)
Date: Thu 03 Jul 1997 - 03:53:24 EEST
Somebody was sayin:
> Consider the Quest that attempted to cure Gbaji's curse on the Trolls.
> The Troll Questers did their ritual and made their change....
>
> And came back to find that they had instead made things worse. They had
> brought forth multiple births of trollkin! Now they weren't going to
> maintain that change were they? So why did it persist?
Well, I believe that is YOUR opinion that multiple trolkin is worse.
For the Uz, I believe that it's a matter of quantity over quality.
Sure, they'd rather have a big husky dark troll, but a dozen little
trolkin can do a lot of chores and are, frankly, edible.
I think part of the problem for the trolls is that somebody mucked up
I wonder if you can get to a point where a "truth" is self serving, self
their fertility rituals, and nobody knows what happened. So once they
had a litter of trollkin, they started firming up the shaky grounds that
the curse was based on, and now they unwittingly have supported it into
truth.
regulating, and self maintaining? Do the sacred time rituals more or
less "support truth and reality as it is right now?" And then special
rituals need to be done to maintain the exceptions to reality, like the
"We all have perfect hair" or "My clan uses greatswords one handed" or
"Our family gets +10% to our left handed mace attack" etc.
Rich Ohlson
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