Air, and geasa

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From: Carl Fink (carlf@panix.com)
Date: Thu 25 Nov 1993 - 11:15:49 EET


sullivam@mlc.lib.mi.us (Mark Sullivan -- Michigan Library Consortium) cites Allan Henderson: 

R>> I know that 12Km sounds a lot but Mt. Everest is 8.9Km high and


 >> humun beings can climb that without Oxygen in tanks. If life is


 >> designed to go up that high (or spends a lot of time

 >> acclimatising) then life on earth can live up to 21,000 feet.

 >> Nothing else lives at this altitude so there is no need for

 >> people to go  to this height. In reality the problem of oxygen is
>> normally superceded by the problems of extreme cold, and very
>> high winds.

  I don't know how I missed this. No, they can't. Humans require supplemental oxygen to reach the peak of Everest. 

R>I liked your ideas on climbing Wintertop, but I think oxygen should

>be a problem. One solution: use controlled Sylphs to provide
>breathable air.

  Oxygen? What's oxygen? Oxygen is not a relevant concept in Glorantha, where Air is an element. We need Air to breathe, not some imaginary component of that air.

ddunham@radiomail.net (David Dunham , via RadioMail) writes:

R>What's the meaning of Humakt Geas #10 "accept no magical healing at all?"
>Can the Humakti cast healing on himself?

  No.

>Can his allied spirit cast it?

  No. Or rather, as a Humakti cult spirit it might be capable of doing so, but wouldn't.

>What happens if he's unconscious and it's cast on him?

  He gets really, really angry. 

        --Carl
                                      

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