What the Walrus Said!

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: boris (mabeyke@batman.b11.ingr.com)
Date: Sun 12 Sep 1993 - 22:54:39 EEST

  Just got back from ConFrancisco, and finished slogging through the pile   of email waiting for me. Thought I'd post a few things.

  What I Did On My Summer Vacation: 

  vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

  I took a pile (~40) RQCon fliers and left them on the con flier table at   CF. The next day they were all gone. I guess I should have taken a lot   more ;-)

  I mentioned here a month or so ago that I was thinking of having a friend   of mine who does bronze sculpture do a set of runes for RQCon. Well, both   Greg Stafford and Butch Honeck (the sculptor) were at WorldCon, and after   getting Greg's blessing, I sketched out the first piece for Butch (a round   medallion with the Storm, Mastery, and Movement runes).

  Well, two days later when I went by to see how Butch was doing (he had the   wax done by then), and Greg was talking to him. Greg really likes his   work, and they are arranging a deal for Butch to do official, Stafford   approved numbered sets of Runes. If no irreconcilable differences are   encountered (they are both artists, afterall), Greg hopes to have them   ready for RQCon himself, possibly later. I pointed out that Butch does   excellent dragons, so the Chaosium logo/EWF Symbol/Argrath's Emblem would   be a cool thing to have him do as well. Butch promised to keep me informed   on how things progress (thankful that I just possibly swung lots of new   business his way), so I'll pass on anything I hear.

  After Butch and Greg finished talking, Greg and I wandered off discussing   a number of things. (I had never met him before; no one on the net seems   to have mentioned how infectiously enthusiastic he is.) I mentioned the   RQTarot that had been bandied about here. His opinion was that Tarot use   was mostly a Solar concept (adopted by the Lunars, of course), and would   at most be a very recent import to Orlanthi culture. He also mentioned   that Solar mythology has only four elements (I assume Darkness, Sea, Earth,   and Sky from the conversation, though he didn't say and I didn't think to   ask). I asked him then whether the Lunars had five or six elements; he   said he wasn't sure yet. He then talked about the book(s) he's working on.   I wish I had had a tape recorder with me; much is just a jumble now. But   all in all it was fascinating.

  Idea For Sun Dome Templar History: 

  vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv

  A friend of mine started a Ralian (Delelan) campaign. Figuring that this   was a traditional Orlanthi area separated by impassable mountains from   the Yelmalio schism, I played an Elmali. This got me thinking about the   similarities between the cults. I decided that the use of mercenaries   developed because of the myth based cult obligations. Since Elmal   protected the home while Orlanth went on the Lightbringers' Quest, I   figured that traditionally, the Elmal Temple is expected to provide guards   for the Orlanth and Ernalda temples during Darkness and Storm seasons,   while the Wind Lords are off leading pious Orlanthi on missions against   chaos and darkness. The Elmal cult, being a minority, eventually came to   hire mercenaries to help. Since they needed to raise money to do this,   and they already had the military command structure, they would find it   worthwhile to retain the mercs all the time, and hire them out during the   rest of the year. The need for money also would tend to make them more   clannish than the other minor cults, which eventually led to the schism.

  Comments:
  vvvvvvvv
  Mr Robert McArthur said in X-RQ-ID: 1594
>If I remember correctly, somewhere is KoS it says that a god (Orlanth I
>think (I hope :-)) was 'only cut up into 49 pieces and so survived because
>there was one piece left'. If so, there may be an exact number of pieces
>that a god needs to be defenestrated into in order not to reform on its own. 

                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^?

  Somehow the thought of throwing Orlanth out a window and having him bust   into a bunch of pieces (or is he chopped up first and then each piece   thrown out a separate window?) made me chuckle. No offense, please, I   just found it amusing. ;-)

  Paul Reilly said in X-RQ-ID: 1614
> (Dr. Longhair's excellent treatise deleted)

  Excellent explaination for the phenomenon. Pay no mind to that obviously   insane quack ;-) Mercator; you have the truth of the matter here, I'm   certain.


  Boris L:-{)} (Mustached and bearded Lhankor Mhyte w/mortarboard & tassle).
Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri 10 Oct 2003 - 01:31:36 EEST