but do the lunars surf?

From: johnjmedway (jjm@zycor.lgc.com)
Date: Wed 22 Sep 1993 - 09:02:21 EEST



I'M KIDDING! REALLY!!!!
>> From: 100270.337@CompuServe.COM (Nick Brooke)
>> X-RQ-ID: 1723

re: moonboats
>> Make up your own answers to suit the scenario. We know they were used for

Of course, but a little outside data usually doesn't hurt. Remember, the last big campaign I played in ended with the death of Argrath and an Arkat/ Eristi the Doubter-worshipping DarkTroll on the throne as the new Pharoah. Always nice to know how many time the standard deviation out we are.

sidenote:
Another possible looking and leaping sync problem: are there other references to the "High Council of the Empire" other than in the shoddy xerox Gloranthan Encyclopaedia? Seems I started defining it before thinking it through - more on that later.

>> I liked my original moon-rune-balloons, but a bulging circular sail would
>> look much the same... I hope they have some kind of sail structure, or they
>> wouldn't remind people of boats.

The hull/fuselage could still be of a boat-like design, but a sail would be a nice touch. Maybe the "balloon" structures could be outriggers level with the sides of the galley? ( where oars would have been )

dart wars:
>> > Are these wars to be semi-formally declared before they are started
>> > (our impression), or is the first "surfeit" of seafood a acceptable
>> > declaration of war?
>>
>> Read "Dune", and take that as your model. Noble Duke Leto still goes to the

Funny, I just had picked that book back up for a re-read...

Oh David.....

>> > Regarding the moon's "craters" being spiderweb-like lines: so these

BTW: The illo on the cover of the U.S. edition of Glorantha does not have any picture of the moon on it - unless my eyes are even worse than I think!

>> Hope this has helped. Most of the above is my own opinion, for what that's
>> worth, so you can take it or leave it.
>>
>> Shame about your shift-key breaking!

Sorry for the e.e.cummings-esque post - lazy habit.

>> Loren?:
>> > If a myth is extremely consistent across a huge range of lands and
>> > cultures then it's almost sure proof of powerful, and RECENT, God
>> > Learner style meddling, or at best a well-organized mythic mainten-
>> > ance squad within the cult, which is still pretty darn scary.
>>
>> more of nick:
>> Yup. Best modern example is the Lunar Empire: p.d.s. to me!

Hmmm, Yanafal tarnils commissars in with the troops....

Pseudo-thought police...?
- probably too advanced, even with Clairvoyance spells ...



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