From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Wed 20 Apr 1994 - 13:23:48 EEST
Non-Aussie readers might want to skip this dull administrivia:
Back in early February I received a subscription request that I have unfortunately been unable to respond to. The handwriting is, let us just say, "artistically idiosyncratic" (eg. illegible).
The name on the cheque is MR & VT Walsh, however, I would swear it is "Wuam" on the subber form! The cheque is from the NAB branch in Rockingham and is dated 2.2.94. The amount made out is $29.50. I haven't cashed it.
The address on the subber form appears to be something like "4 Somma(?) Rise, Port Kunnloy/Kennedy/Kingldy(???), WA 6172. I can't match the Port Whatever with any locality in my post code book.
I would like to fulfill this subscription, so if anyone out there can identify the person I would be grateful!
P.S. While on this, please recall I have moved since issue #10 - new address 48 Barcelona Street Box Hill, Vic 3128. Quite a bit of TALES mail is still heading to the wrong address and I don't know how long I can rely on the goodwill of the new owner!
Sandy bared his Gloranthan soul to the RQ Daily, a brave and honest thing to do. We at the Reaching Moon Megacorp expected our readers to either love or hate our first Pamaltela Special, being so different in style and content to what we've published before. Whether its rational or logical or not, if anyone might feel alienated by what was presented in issue #11, I guess it would be Sandy.
Note that sometime down the track Tales will visit Pamaltela again, and will probably walk the Right Hand footpath. We will certainly welcome Sandy's unique contribution next time we head down south...
Sandy:
>Au revoir, all. I won't be writing anything to the Digest for some
>time to come.
I for one will miss Sandy's wide-ranging input to the Daily, which
sometimes offered Joerg, Paul Reilly, myself and others the chance of
an occasional verbal/textual? joust on matters diverse. I hope he comes
back soon!
G. Fried picked up a copy of STRANGERS IN PRAX on the way to a job interview and writes:
>Question. In the desciption of Maculus, we learn that he fell prey to the
>Cult of Immortality, "an insidious false religion that claims to sell the
>secret of eteranl life." We are told that the cult is really a pyramid
>scheme, and that when "Maculus finally reached the top of the pyramid, he
>discovered that the religion he had spent the last 85 years toiling for was
>an empty, hollow sham, and this prompted a complete nervous collapse." (SiP
>25)
>Now, given that the age for Maculus is presently given as 132 (SiP 30), how
>is the Cult of Immortality to be understood as this "empty, hollow sham"?
>Seems it did SOMETHING for Maculus.
It did. However, he's been out of the Church for over 15 years, so I guess he's been aging during that time.
>Is the "sham" that the cult just extends life, but does not grant true
>immortality
Yes.
You can still die from disease or injury or shock, and if you do, my guess is
your soul becomes lost.
>-- AND it requires draining others of their youth?
Yes again.
The Church of Immortality
[Taken from a document called "Cults of the Lunar Empire" supplied to me
by Ken when I accepted the offer to write the Lunar characters for STRANGERS
IN PRAX. Ken got it from Oliver Jovanovich, and I think the original
author was Steve Marsh. Anyone confirm this?]
#This cult believes that all gods conspire to keep humans mortal and poor, but #one god violated the conspiracy, and whispered to them the Secret of #Immortality. For this, other gods branded him with Chaos and banished him #from the universe. #The "secret" is nothing other than a pyramid scheme. Cult #members transfer their money and youth to higher ups, in exchange for #greater standing in the cult. Emphasis is always on recruitment. The cult #is rigorously persecuted by the Lunar Empire (which feeds the myth the cult #is based on), and despite constant education programs, and declarations of #finally stamping it out, the cult continues to exist. The Church's stated #runes are Infinity/Fate/Chaos. The cult offers the runespell: Transfer #Youth, and training in Fast Talk.
Cheers
MOB P.S. Hope you get the job Greg ...if you want it. I nearly got seduced by a very attractive offer from the corporate world during the Easter vacation. After some soul searching I knocked it back - after all, what other job can I indulge myself with Roman Feasts, acting out the sea battle scene from Ben Hur (tommorow!) and Byzantine Hagiography (I promise I'll do a lesson on this at the end of the year if my kids behave; they have no idea what it is, but maybe they behave to find out!) Amazingly, my wife was offered a new job on the very same day - she took it!
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