From: boris (mabeyke@batman.b11.ingr.com)
Date: Wed 04 May 1994 - 18:25:10 EEST
Boris here, with a few snide comments and questions In X-RQ-ID: 3900 John P Hughes comments:
>*** SEX, POLYGAMY, POLYGYNY, POLYANDRY AND MARRIAGE
>(SPPPAM)
SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM! SPPPAM!
Wonderful SPPPAM, Wonderful SPPPAM!
(sorry. A python spirit suddenly possessed me.)
>Just how DOES magic affect sex, fertility and marriage in a given
>Gloranthan culture ?
(a lot of good speculative questions deleted)
All excellent questions, but the one I am really interested in is, how long is human gestation in Glorantha? With a year of only 294 days, normal Earthly gestation (9 months ~ 273 days) seems a bit long. I have heard mentioned that the average human lifespan on Glorantha (barring unforseen accidents such as stumbling onto a StormBull keg party) is "three score and ten" Gloranthan years. Is gestation shortened by a similar amount to three fourths of a lozenge shaped year (220 days, not quite four seasons)? I know this will please the young assistant shaman in my game who rolled quite low after an all night party.
In X-RQ-ID: 3891 Paul Reilly comments:
>Sandy writes:
>>This is also why
>>Greg and I concur that ducks have teeth (so they can grin).
>
> Whoa there. They don't need teeth to grin. Bills are funy just
>as they are, anyway.
As someone else said (geez, I can't remember who) ducks *do* have teeth; they need them to hold their cigars.
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