From: Pam Carlson (carlsonp@wolfenet.com)
Date: Fri 10 Apr 1998 - 08:41:25 EEST
Of Boars and Cursing One's Enemies
> Of course, the time Theya summoned the Boar to afflict them has nothing
to do with their wickedness.
Of course it did. The boar was sent by Ernalda to protect the sacred pig
woods and our ancestral shrine to Kero Fin from the Foulorleving. I merely
offered the Goddess an Foulorleving prisoner in return for her blessing the
normal pigs of the wood to drive off the Foulorleving should they enter.
That she saw fit to send a murderous boar the size of a large bull merely
shows how much she distrusts the Foulorleving, too.
Birth Control
> By allowing births only when mother and child can survive, more babies
> survive. And isn't that what fertility is all about?
Much agreed. See David Dunham's website for write-ups of our old Post
Dragon Kill campaign. It contains the brutal wisdom of Korvash, a Dara
Happan peasant from second-age Alkoth/Henjarl. In it, he offers Boltho,
the Orlanthi chieftain whom he faithfully serves, (at least as long as
Boltho is voted "Most Likely to Control the Food and the Women"), advice on
how to starve. Infants don't fare very well in Korvash's instructions...
Buserian Types:
> So a meeting of the Buserian Confraternity would be a seditious nest of
> counter-cyclical heretics, if any of them dared to speak -- and these
are=
> the most harmless impotent old Yelmic farts that anyone can imagine!
Not always! In my Alkoth campaign, the most terrifying, most bloodthirsty
character is not the rugged, blood-drinking Shargashi warrior Vrantharus,
(played with inspiration by Martin Laurie), but the tall, sallow,
vegetarian Buserian worshipper, who incites mobs to bloody deeds, (played
with equal inspiration by Dave Pearton). Manilarvus can often be heard
shouting: "First against he wall when the revolution comes!", and "They
must be puified! Burn them!, Burn them!", as he wanders in search of
rainwater and watercress.
Pam
(back from an electronic hiatus)
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