From: alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Date: Wed 01 Jun 1994 - 09:22:08 EEST
Me:
> > However, "Fever-brained Gbaji-riddling son of a she-broo" is a tried and
> > tested standby for Lunars of all shapes, sizes, and illuminations.
Pam:
> Sounds like that will get your taxes raised, for sure!
What, you mean you _pay_ your taxes? Colloborator!
Why, as Thomas "Can't pray, won't pray" Sherrifs Din said to me, just the other day, "A penny's impost paid buys the nails for another one of Our Boys at The Front to be nailed to the Cross of Lunar Oppression!" And as I said to him, "Thom, you're being overcharged for nails, I tell you."
Sandy "TrueFlame" Petersen ignites:
> Dave Dunham whines:
> >But, but, I thought the Orlanthi are herders because they live in
> >comparatively poor upland areas.
> I guess it's Petersen/Dunham culture clash. I know the
> Orlanthi brew beer and wine, so obviously they have grain and grapes.
> You must be from some lush rainy place like Washington state,
> Dave. Come visit Utah some day, and you'll see that "comparatively
> poor upland areas" are able to grow some crops, too. The land in Utah
> that is considered only suitable for cattle and sheep is REALLY bad
> -- more like Prax than Sartar. I figure Dragon Pass is more like
> Scotland or Wales. You can farm there, can't you? (Sam?)
There's a fair amount of land in Scotland and Wales which is only really suited to sheep grazing. Not so much because the soil is infertile, as such, but because the ground's so steep a cow'd roll off, and plowing is difficult for the same reason, and the consequent thinness of the soil. There's a further amount of land which is just about farmable, but is difficult enough that it's done on a very small scale, and is of a very "mixed" kind. Some arable, some pasture, pigs, chickens, etc. i.e., crofting, hill-farming. And some of it is suitable for honest-to-god arable farming, yes. Not much in the way of corn or grapes, though.
But we're talking about "Sartar, not Scotland", so please your collective selves. (I'd be surprised if Sartar wasn't warmer, at least.) And if it's a rainy, then those Orlanth Thunderous priests really could save their breath, and magic points.
Nick subjects us to the following:
> I prefer to believe that HeroQuesting is a subjective experience in which
> the quester usually encounters those otherworldly entities he expects to
> meet.
This is all well and good, but: Questors sometimes meet things they didn't expect to; people _interact_ (cooperatively or antagonistically) on the Heroplane/Godplane; actions on a Quest change things for later questors. This suggests to me that it isn't, at least, some personal nightmare of solipsism. So, in exactly what sense do we mean by "subjective"? (Or for you zealots in the other camp, by "Objective?")
Alex.
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