"More sense than that White Moon stuff..."

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From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Sat 11 Sep 1993 - 02:45:22 EEST


Henk said:
[Re:]
>> Thus the return of the White is the rebirth of the full Yelm Emperor.

> How I like this!
> Makes a lot more sense than that white moon stuff...

Slapped wrists for not listening in class, Henk. My God Learner slave proposed this back in X-RQ-ID-807 on 18th May:

> Yeah, it would make sense (says my God Learner slave) for the Godtime's
> Perfect Sun to have been White. Then it fragments into three. The New
> Sun (which rose at the Dawning) was only the Yellow fragment of the
> original. Now the Waertagi are back, there's a chance we can get the
> Blue Moon under control and recreate the Perfect World.

Now, pay attention! (Or am I just ahead of my time?)


G. Fried said:

> I HATE (well, snore at) the present spirit combat system! Shouldn't
> spirit combat involve as many interesting options as real combat?!

Seconded. The current system is dull. The RQ4 proposal is more number- crunching, and still dull. Nearest approach to a colourful spirit combat system I saw was in an old RuneGlitch -- battle magic spells damaging visible spirits, so we could fight them with Bladesharps etc. rather than by abstract POW-wrestling. Ideas, anyone?

> And who but a G-L would devise such a ritual as in Masters of Luck and
> Death to keep himself immortal?

Delecti the Necromancer was an EWF type, and devised something which is functionally identical to the Pharaonic system... That confuses but does not answer your question.


Paul wrote:

> "On the Properties of the Elements", by Clement Longhair

The central idea of which (light striving upwards) had independently occurred to me as a solution to the Gloranthan "horizon problem," and therefore *must* be true <g>. Of course, casting Farsee to "energise" your vision would therefore increase line-of-sight, regardless of the "false horizon".

Nice write-up! |:-)> (LhM w/ mortar board & goatee)


Nick
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