From: Joerg Baumgartner (joe@toppoint.de)
Date: Sat 06 Dec 1997 - 15:25:00 EET
Sandy Petersen replying to
>Nick Brooke
>>Checking something: we agree that Telmori transform on Wildday,
>>wherever they are, and it's "just bad luck" that in Dragon Pass,
>>Wildday is the same as the Full Moon phase (though this ain't so
>>elsewhere), thus *locally* associating the Red Moon with vicious chaos
>>beasties. Yes?
> Hold on now Nick. First convince me that werewolves don't
>transform on the Full Moon phase regardless of the day of the week. I
>find it hard to believe that the lunar cycle hasn't affected the poor
>beasts. After all, werewolves are traditionally moon-linked creatures.
Well, so was a certain oasis in Prax (Moonbroth), which has a geysir
erupting every Wildday.
(http://www.sirius.com/~chaosium/glor-cop-biturian.html#7mothers)
Of course, that oasis happens to lie in the appropriate segment of Glorantha...
> Personally, I find it easy to believe that before the Red Moon
I don't really think so. It was Talor who pronounced the curse. What did he
Wildday has the beast rune in the Theyalan calendar, right?
have to do with the Blue Streak? What did he see behind the gate of Banir
(whence, I suppose, Harmast and friends brought him back) to choose this cycle?
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