From: Alex Ferguson (abf@interzone.ucc.ie)
Date: Thu 10 Jul 1997 - 02:01:56 EEST
Andrew Joelson quotes another Mystery Person:
> ???????
> >I'm assuming you _can_ simply abort a Quest, as His Gregship has said
> >as much, though I'd be inclined to question this for "deeper" quests.
- -.. though that one was an easy one to spot, at least for me (as that's
who it was). The source of the extent of my earlier quoting perplexity
becomes clear: the nameless individual having an apparently
non-existant post cited was Paul Chapman, in Digest #15, which it seems
I never got. Does anyone know if issues as recent as this are archived
any place, either on the Web, or by sticking two figurative fingers down
Majordomo@chaosium.com's throat?
[Stop press! In case anyone else is wondering, md@c.c _does_ have the
most recent digests, it claims, though it seems a bit slow in actually
coughing them up.]
> The more powerfull the Quest, and/or the farther in you are,
> the harder it is to stop. If you're in the middle of the GodPlane,
> then aborting the quest leads to the 'how the heck do I get out of here'
> phase. Which may be an experimental HQ, finding a way home....
I'd tend to agree with that. If you're actually, bodily in Hell, then
unless you have a particular route already open to you, then you can't
simply "give up". Though I gather a common route to immortality/herodom
is obtaining a "back door out of hell", perhaps as this is one there's
some considerable demand for...
Of course, another side of this is that you may still be "creating"
> Sandy Petersen is a multiple personality, witness the fact that
a variant myth in the process. "Orlanth Robini went to Hell, and then
Bravely Buggered Off."
I'm intruiged. Can you explain this one in terms comprehensible to the
non-MythosHead? (Maybe this proves that Sandy is Arkat. That Greg
is Arkat too presents no reall difficulty.)
Mike C. on the same:
> Arrrrghhhh! Where did he say this?
Oh, I forget. Some early article on HQing. Any of you MiG owners
and/or walking Gloranclopaediae help here?
> And how the galloping fuck is it possible?
I think Greg was speaking from a perspective strongly influenced by
shamanic style quests, where this is (apparently) generally possible.
Cheers,
Alex.
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