From: Nick Brooke (100270.337@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Sat 25 Jun 1994 - 03:10:49 EEST
> Not that Glorantha has artillery fire
The Lunar College of Magic's spirit magicians (from WB&RM) could be seen as working like WWI artillery barrages: they're the first thing that hits the enemy line (OK, there's Chaos and Physical magicians, too, but...), they presumably make a fair amount of weird sounds and red light, and they leave enemy troopers "shell-shocked" and gibbering in their ranks...
While if the Crater Makers and Cannon Cult aren't artillery, what is?
Your piece on the Third Age break-up of the Jrusteli Monomyth was fascinating. Thanks a million!
> I'd like to suggest that both Nick and Devin consider cooling off for
> a day or two.
Advice taken.
> Indeed, one of the attractive things about G back in RQ2 was the
> ambiguity of the struggle between the barbarians and the empire; I
> think it is a shame that the barbarians now all wear white hats and
> the empire black.
Urk! More people say the reverse, these days. Is it "King of Sartar," with its understandable pro-Orlanthi slant, or RQ3's tendency to treat everyone more reasonably (as potential good guys), that you're objecting to?
In case it makes a difference, I *love* the Lunar Empire. They only wear black hats half of the time, when their Cyclical ways require it. I don't believe taking a philosophical attitude to language makes them "evil", any more than Political Correctness would.
> Clearly, but they don't say "Yelm rises, time starts" at _any_ point
> (other than 0YS).
> But given that Arkat has previously managed to appear as several people,
> and given that (at least) four of them are (going to be) probably lying,
> this is not the stuff of great inconsistency.
Only four out of five lying? Who was Arkat ever honest with??
Only "somewhat" drunken? That must have been the first night...
Chris says he should have Danfive's chapter written up for Convulsion, and promises public recitations. We live in hope...
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