From: Kirsten K. Niemann (eco0kkn@cabell.vcu.edu)
Date: Mon 13 Jun 1994 - 18:18:57 EEST
Devin Cutler quoted Some Friend of Elvis:
"This sort of deduction is often aided by thoughts such as "We're in
the obvious "hook" part of the scenario, so..." Maybe you just have keen
players."
Then Devin wrote:
Maybe so. I would be interested to hear if anyone else running
Gaumata's vision didn't suspect chaos infestation of a village right away?
Also, did the author mean for that to be obscure or obvious?"
And I reply:
Hmmmm. It has been quite a while since I ran that scenario and I
wrote the Vision part of it for the game, then took it word for word
into the written scenario.
What was I trying to make obvious? Not a thing, actually. By using metaphors, the PCs got to come up with their own ideas of what they were looking for. In my run, some seemed really hot to find a lake or pond and search the bottom for tentacled monsters.
As Nick can tell you, there are many possible interpretations. What his guys "determined" from the vision was very different from the things that provoked Yelmalio to send it.
Mike
Codex 2 is at the printers!!!!!!! Codex 3 is 1/2 laid out!!!!!
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