Routine retaliatory measures.

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From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Date: Thu 21 Apr 1994 - 22:23:50 EEST

Jonas:
> David:
> >Since Trickster temples are almost always only shrines, all they get is the
> >Trickster-specific spell of that shrine. And Worship Trickster.

> "Worship Trickster"?!? What's that? Rhetorical question - I'd say the lack
> of bowing and scraping for some divine bully ("Dear Orlanth: oooohhh, you
> are so big...") is a major draw for the trickster cults.

Trickster cults are clearly theistic, so would certainly follow the usual pattern of Worship being available (and necessary) at all temples. And likely something like the usual numbers of worshippers at each shrine to make it "work".

I'd prefer to call it `Worship <Trickster Aspect>', however.

> Vadd} "mot"? Jag trodde vi var |verrens?

Uh-oh, he's started talking in close-curly-braces and pipes... ;-) Is gu the University of Go:teborg?

> [...] my completely irrational and prejudiced attitude towards Pamaltela.
> I have no justification for this view, except that any place where
> tricksters get such a raw deal is too grim for my tastes.

You won't much like Dara Happa, then, or indeed anyplace much outside of the Barbarian Belt.

> [Me:]
> >Actually, Murderer would fit perfectly well with Eurmal's relationship with
> >Death.

> Only if you find me a quote where Eurmal actually _uses_ Death

I can't, but it would fit in with existing myth. If he ever overcame his lethargy for long enough.

> >in any given locality, any given
> >shrine will (almost) certainly be thought of as being dedicated to a
> >_particular_ Trickster deity, not as being a Generic Trickster Shrine,

> Absolutely. Have I said something to contradict this?

Well, you started disagreeing with me about _something_ or other, I'm fumbling around for what it might have been. ;-/

Martin:
> Effete? EFFETE?!? Bite your tongue, Scotty. It's us
> Americans who talk the language in its most manliest form.

What, you mean it isn't true you all stopped saying the Good Olde- Fashioned anglo-saxon "arse" because your Mommies didn't like it? Must just be an obsession with beasts of burden, then. <critical duck>

> ;-) (Actually, I think we pronounce "Asshole" the same, since
> Brits (like New Englanders) don't seem to be able to pronounce
> the letter r properly.)

Au contraire. That's them Sassenachs, especially their especially labially-reflexively-weak southern branch. But in their case, it's more like "awsehole". We Scots always pronounce our r's. Frequently several times for luck. Admi'edly, the same can't always be said about cer'ain other le'ers.

Persons saying "asshole" in this sceptred isle are subject to detention without trial under the Prevention of Americanism Act, while it's investigated whether they patronise Macdonalds, watch NFL games, or make loud whooping noises while in t.v. studio audiences. [*]

> Alex says:
> > Naturally Aldryami don't play _competitive_ sports, as
> >such... I'd imagine they indulged in co-operative or ritual
> >activities, which look like (rather incomprehsible) sports when
> >witnessed by outsiders.

> Everything Aldryami do is religious in nature, or at least they
> do not recognize the human distinction between the
> mundane/profane and the divine.

I don't believe this is true, at least in the sense that they appear to engage in both in behaviour which is `mundane' (has some prosaic purpose evident even to ignorant humans), and that which is `ritual' (doesn't). They may not see this as an interesting or significant distinction from their point of view, though.

> The Goddess is imminent.

<checks watch> Really? How soon?

[*] ;-), btw.

Alex.

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