Humakti != Berserk

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From: johnjmedway (jjm@zycor.lgc.com)
Date: Fri 15 Oct 1993 - 20:56:38 EET


>> From: C442196@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (Newton Hughes)
>> X-RQ-ID: 1955
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for informing me of the ToTRM updated Humakt write-
>> up; however, it doesn't change my opinion that allowing the Berserk
>> spell is an error (just because the RQ Gods wrote it, well, everything Greg
>> says is wrong, right?) The moment when you expect to face your god up
>> close is not the time to change the habits of a lifetime, namely, com-
>> mitment to self-discipline, unemotionalness, and precision swordplay.

Berzerk, as typified by Zorak Zorani is used for mindless, senseless butchery. This doesn't fit my perception of Humakti, Yanafal Tarnils worshippers, et al. ( I don't see them with big drooling problems... )

I would suggest one of the following patches:

  1. Delete Berzerk from the Humakti, et al, lists. Replace it with "Sword Trance" ( much like Babester Gor's "Axe Trance" ).
  2. Rethink the "mindless" aspect of Berzerk. Swap the "mindless" for "selfless". And assume the "confusion" about friend & foe comes from being infused with DEATH. Don't make the Humakti drooling and slavering over the kill. Make him/her divorce feelings and _not_bother_ to differentiate friends from foes, after the foes are gone. Not that (s)he CAN not, but WILL not. (Knowing that Death == Truth, and nothing else matters. )

I can easily see a Humakti, seeing that his/her time has come, and knowing that (s)he has duties to perform beforehand, doing either. Feelings and thoughts clear from the mind, and the duty of separating begins, and all that.

>> To compensate for getting rid of Berserk I'd change Sever Spirit from its
>> present form as a 1-shot, ranged Finger o' Death to a temporal weapon-en-
>> hancing spell.

YOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! This seems a bit grim.... even for Humakti.


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