From: Official Heat Sink (SYS_RSH%PV0A@hobbes.cca.rockwell.com)
Date: Thu 23 Jun 1994 - 07:14:49 EEST
>You will have to somehow explain to me how, in a Glorantha where
>Chalanna Arroy has a reusable Resurrection, charges only what the
>recipient can afford (donations actually), and is willing to heal
>almost anyone, Resurrection is not widely available?
Okay, I'll take a stab at it (for what my opinion's worth, approximately 0.076 Japanese yen at the moment), if for no other reason than I tend to side with Joerg: I'm not comfortable with the idea of a widely available, reliable resurrection.
First, the axioms:
Chalanna Arroy has a reusable Resurrection.
Priestesses charge only a donation ("Not *that*
nominal!" she says.... ;)
CA devotees are willing to heal anyone who is not
obviously chaotic, such as Broos or Howard Stern.
These three alone do not a "widely available" resurrection make, chiefly because we have ignored 1) the availability/distributions of CA priestesses, lozenge-wide, and 2) the fact that a given priestess has a limited resurrection ability. If a warlord brings in three bodies to a priestess with only one Resurrect to her name, two people stay dead. (Unless they want to keep the other two bodies around until she's had a chance to regain her spell.)
I'd expect to see a fair number of priestesses with multiple Resurrects only in larger cities, and since the surrounding population is greater there, I think it safe to say that there's a pretty low Resurrection per capita ratio no matter where you go. If I understand the CA temple policy, it's "first come, first served." If you're pretty far down the queue, you have only a slim chance of coming back from the dead.
All of which assumes that there is a CA priestess within seven days travel and someone is willing to drag your carcass that far, which I think is not often the case.
In other words: it's available, but not *readily* available.
--Scott
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