From: NDROBINS@NDROBINS.FIN.GOV.BC.CA
Date: Thu 02 Jun 1994 - 02:57:34 EEST
My GMing in Glorantha is going well, and I'm finding subplots appearing
where I least expect them. In fact, one of them is going so well
I'm scared about how to handle now. Players can lead a game in
the most interesting directions.
I'm running a small party of Pavic apprentices that are all about seventeen and learning how to be independant. Two are Pavis initiates, another Chalana Arroy, and the third is Sartarite refugee worshiping Vinga. They've know each other for a few years now, and hang around together as much as their free time allows. After about five sessions and some cameos from some of Pavis's more colourful characters (Olaf, Griselda) they have started to take an interest in anti-lunar activities. Great, I think, what with Strangers and Prax and other supplements, I have stuff to keep them going for years.
Then the fun starts. The apprentice brewer, a bright but perhaps naive chap, decides to get some language training. Of course, he doesn't have any money, but goes to do it anyway. Soon he is enrolled in lessons at the Irripi Ontor temple learning how to write New Pelorian (he could already speak it, but is an illiterate). They agreed not to charge him providing he is willing to attend their weekly 'services' and stay for the entire course. He is. He figures that learning from the Lunars will allow him to better understand them and help the Sartarite cause by undermining them. Oh the confidence of youth.
In my eyes, it is the perfect opportunity for the Lunars to do some subtle conversion on an impressionable youth. Paul Reilly published something that Finula wrote that showed a nice conversion. Does anyone have any hints about a good way to get the character converted and have the player start realizing it only once it has happened. The player is reasonably experienced but may have the character 'back out' inappropriately if I handle it too harshly.
Neil, novice GM
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