From: Hasni Mubarak (richo@epix.net)
Date: Thu 03 Jul 1997 - 04:06:02 EEST
Ok, I'm either going to summarize what I've gotten out of the preceding
debate, or I'm making up stuff because I haven't been following it THAT
closely:
If Rupert Cloudchaser decides to be a Hero (as opposed to a hero), he
will have to do spectaular things on the Heroplane. To cause permanent
changes, he will have to expened permanent POW, take risks, and be very
VERY lucky.
The POW costs don't necc. have to come from him personally. In fact, he
will be more successful if he has a group that is willing to burn POW
for him. So, he builds a ring of supporters, and probably spends POW
binding them toghethor. If he doesn't, he will be required to spend all
the POW personally, and that may get costly.
I suppose there should be a record of how much POW he has floating
around Real Glorantha, and how much is spent on the Heroplane. POW that
he has tossed off to get Divine Magic, Herogifts, etc, are all on the
Heroplane somewhere, trying to anchorhim there. Something on Glorantha
should be trying to anchor him down also, but I don't know what that
would be. Perhaps it's the power he has put into his ring, or they have
put power into his anchor, or it's his home temple. I'm very fuzzy on
this. At first, I was thinking that Divinemagic he sacrificed for and
stuff would count as "real glorantha" POW, but most people seem to be
leaning towards, "Learning Divine magic is a minor quest, and I'm just
not going to deal with the details right now."
So, I guess my main question would be, "What anchors a Hero to physical
Glorantha?" My second question would be, "Assuming the loss of POW to
the Heroplane is the source of apothesis, how much POW needs to be
channeled before there is a good risk of not coming back?"
In regards to the Late Pharoh and Moonson, I'd have to say that the
thousands of citizens of their respective empires help hold them down to
physical Glorantha. Harrek is still around because he has the
Wolfpirates holding him down. I don't know about more "loner" Heroes.
Perhaps they have devices that they can anchor to. Maybe they enchant
Glorantha itself. It would not surprise me in the least if the
Godlearners had a sorcery spell that acted as "1 POW per point of
intensity. We recomend a 22 intensity before you go seriously muck with
the gods."
It might even be as simple as, "Any non-cast divine spell is temporal in
nature, and therefore is repelled by the godplane. Don't go there and
cast any...or you won't come back."
Rich Ohlson
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