From: Geoff Gunner (eosgg@raesp-farn.mod.uk)
Date: Fri 03 Dec 1993 - 17:22:52 EET
As Colin has made mean work of my counterarguments about God-time, here's
an argument from another angle.
Why not say a heroquest is making God-time Immanent (ie. *now*). God-time is the fabric that makes up time. Before time, the fabric was free to change it's weft and pattern, and did so repeatedly. It changed so much it was in danger of unravelling (the introduction of chaos), so time was created freezing the weft in it's last state.
On a heroquest, the hero becomes aware of the individual threads that make up the weft of time, and can manipulate these. Thus the world can be changed, gods born, die, or whatever. To the observer inside time, it appears that this has always been the case; the observer outside of time can see that this new reality only occurs from a certain point along the tapestry of time.
There seem to be a lot of other tasty threads (sorry) that lead from this. It's a reworking of the bundled fibre analogy that we talked about in regards to magic and summoning. It also implies that the action of Heroquesting, in picking about at the weft, is getting Glorantha back to the state where it was in danger of unravelling. I can see good ties in with God-learner activites. Perhaps certain heroquests could be designed to make the weft tighter, shutting out chaos ? And what happens when the weft gets really loose ? Does chaos creep into the world ?
Over to you, folks.
re: Graeme's Slimestone Gorp ideas. Nice one about the sorcerer. But may I be a spoil-sport and say that the idea of Gorp is ridiculous, anyway ? ie. the acid capability. Now, what pH acid would be needed to eat through bronze plate in a single round ? Pretty low, I should imagine. 2? 1? I'm not achemist, but then saying something has 80 pt damage per round is crazy. That strength acid is going to eat through rock. Anyway, gorp acid should only be effective against organincs - your plate should be unscatherd by a gorp attack. And the thing's an amoeba. A move of 1 ? (Wild hysterical laughter in background). Active attacks ? (falls off console). I MEAN, come on. No, I don't like gorp.
Geoff.
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