Gloranthan Sports: Trade Posts

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From: Guy_Robinson.sbd-e@rx.xerox.com
Date: Wed 30 Mar 1994 - 19:54:03 EEST

While everyone is till reeling from Greg just saying no to RQ4 here is a Gloranthan sport: Trade Posts.

Trade Posts is a game traditionally played by members of the Issaries cult when two cult sponsored caravans meet. It is quite a spectacle, partially because of the fact that the rules are so hard to understand ...

Essentially the game is about defending a symbollic Harmony Rune adorned with bails which are said to represent the influence of the Trade Rune but this is a very mute point.

Whatever the truth is these rods are refered to as Trade Posts and from this the name of the game is derived.

Commonly the guards of each caravan compete with the priests of Issaries acting as judges and generally making themselves busy. As judges they speak only using a specialist dialect of Tradespeak, which includes a rich variety of arm gestures.

The game centers around someone standing before the Trade Posts and defendng them from a very hard ball with a wooden implement not entirely dissimiliar to a bastard sword.

There is also a fair bit of running about and passing the ball around as well although there is always a body of players mysteriously not involved in these activities at any given time.  

People say that if someone is patient enough to play Trade Posts then they are patient enough to trade.

Next: the Etyries body-line series :-)

Regards

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