From: johnjmedway (jjm@zycor.lgc.com)
Date: Sat 04 Dec 1993 - 10:34:15 EET
GEASES & THE BREAKING THEREOF
DOOM! ?
>> I think it's up to the GM in question. However, traditional Celtic
>> tales about geas-breaking would appear to be on my side -- the geas
>> is like a natural law -- if you break it, the curse follows, whether
>> or not you intended to do so.
Even for accidents, there is sometimes no repentence. Though they were "natural laws" and not geases, the case of Oedipus stands out.
He *accidentally* broke the "law". He did not know that it was his father he killed, nor his mother that he, well, you know-ed, until afterward. Nonetheless, he didn't get much by way of slack from the gods.
DIVINE INTERVENTION, TIME, ET AL
But without common units, or ability to convert between measurements of length and width, you can't compare the two. I'd say that such a case exists in the relationship you describe between RealTime Time and GodTime time.
Maybe it's a bit like Heisenberg's principle: essentially you cannot know both coordinates, and also looking into GodTime changes that at which you were looking.
Stafford at his best?
>> My ideal guide for divination is the way it is presented in the CoPrax
>> Biturian Varosh story. When he needs guidance, Biturian spends a few
>> points of Divination and asks Issaries. Issaries doesn't send him
>> confusing visions, or arcane max-7-word answers; he just answers the
>> question! See the Chalana Arroy chapter:
>>
>> Must I undertake this dreadful expedition?
>> No, but you've got your Lightbringer obligations to live up to.
In a way, this is pretty cryptic, too. Depends on your definitions:
(first part of answer)
1A. No, you are not obliged by the me/the cult to go. 1B. No, you will not be dragged kicking and screaming by others ( or fate! ) - simply implies that at some future time he "will not have gone", hence it is not thee case that he *must* (second part of answer) 2A. Yes you must go ( *that* is the obligation ) 2B. You *should* go, you're a Lightbringer 2C. You must support in *some* fashion
I can easily see how the answer could be 1A & 2A, despite the fact that they're
contradictory.
Neither half specifically precludes reprisals, either.
EVERYTHING ELSE
Are you always sure from where a *successful* spell came? In general, I'd say that casual magic users ( not Shamans, people with Second/Soul Sight, et al ) would generally not know. even those who are more aware of spirit matters, may not always know.
Sure. If we may do it, without copyright problems, et al.
>> accumulation of these?) How would one distribute this? I have thought
>> about Windows Help-textfiles. I don't use a Windows-system, but I
Hmm... I'm not familiar with the inner workings of those. If it's a really quirky internal format, we may be better off writing a small, portable shell program, and have our own data format.
>> NB: "Ygglinga" sounds much more Viking to me than "Yggites", and I'd
>> propose this as national noun for themselves. Means "people of Ygg" in
>> old Norse, and sounds quite close to "Ynglinga", the originally swedish
>> descendants of Yng (=Freyr) who became the Norwegian royal dynasty.
Sounds good.
BTW: From where does the -ite ending come ? It's probably specific to one (or more) language(s), and speakers of *those* languages would say "Yggites", as I expect speakers of TradeTalk might say "Ygglingi" ( following from Orlanthi, Humakti, ... ). Maybe Pamaltelan speakers of TradeTalk would say "Ygglingo", or something similar.
Someone else asked. I just hoped the hostility was pretty genuine, and not a quasi-friendly and ritualized, like Orlanth & (Y)elmal(io).
>> Praxians. Although the Praxians cheat the newcomers in their choice of
>> contests (such as a head butting contest between the mounts, proposed
>> by a Bison rider), they don't attack outrightly. Having a five to one
Why is that "cheating"? 8)
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