From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 13 Jul 1994 - 00:44:05 EEST
Sandy:
> I think that under normal circumstances, broos can only mate
> with mammals.
Insert my usual jibes about Sandy indulging his Flakey Pseudoterran Taxonomy in Glorantha.
> I'm sure
> that insects are way too small for a broo to mate.
Apart from Giant Insects, natch.
> Or maybe
> not, since female insects don't really have a proper receptacle for
> the broo's tool.
I thought the rule-of-thumb here was that if a broo couldn't mate qua mate, it mated cum paratisitised?
> I can't help but theorize that Waha's spirit of retribution
> might visit folks who rode horses and were his initiates.
On the one hand, a devout (non-PJ) Waha cultist would, with some heat, tell you so. On the other, according to CoP, Borabo Nightmare only attacks apostates, not violators of cult vows, and adherence to the covanent aren't actually stated as cult restrictions. But then again, I hear you all cry, CoP is where this noxious idea of PJ Wahaists first unearthed itself as a heresy...
They may be up game-mechanical creek anyway, since the PJ aren't likely to have a Waha temple of their own, and any of them daring to turn up at any other temple to Waha (i.e., one controlled by a "normal" tribe) will meet with Sandy-like attitudes.
> All I'm saying is that the Praxians recognize the Pol Joni as
> different (inferior) both quantitatively and qualitatively than the
> other tribes.
Apart from the Morocanth, of course. And the Gagarthi. And those <name of tribe one is currently at war with, or was last raided by> buggers, too.
> I predict they rate the Pol Joni below the Zebra Riders
> on a scale of desirability. (Not that that's so bad.)
I wouldn't disagree with this. In fact, I hereby call for the immediate publication of per-tribe Scales of Desirability. ;-) One imagines the general pattern might be:
1st. Us.
(distant) 2nd.
...
[Other tribes, in this week's permutation.]
...
15th.
[Anything else that turns up.]
(n-5)th (n-4)th Pentans (n-3)th Sartarites and Heortlanders (n-2)th Trolls (n-1)th Those bloody Lunars.
> In Glorantha, Illusion is reality. [...] This is
> one of the basic principles of Glorantha, and has many philosophic
> and cultural implications.
You Evil RQ2 Determinist, Sandy. I concur that Gloranthan illusions can't be "disbelieved" or other such solipsistic DnDisms, and are at least somewhat objective phenomena. But I snerk airily at the idea of Illusions Are Real as a One True Gloranthan Fact. As has been demonstrated by Jonas (I think?), you'll readily get innumerable different accounts from Gloranthans as to the truth, or indeed meaningfullness, of such an assertion.
> >Back of the class for the implied conflation of "British" and
> >"England", Sandy.
> Sorry. *he whines piteously* I know the difference, honest.
> [...] Were you convinced?
Nearly. I just found it necessary to execute you for the lapse, as an example to others. }B-)
> I predict Greg forgot about the word "Shanasse" when churning out GROY.
Or perhaps decided that the term would stick out like a linguistic sore thumb, even at his usual operating level of blithe eclecticism. ;-)
> The "Shanasse" were at one time used to refer to most of the
> Heavenly Host in the Dara Happan culture. I'm sure the Pentans accept
> them, too, but whether the Shanasse originated with Pent or with Dara
> Happa I don't know.
The name "Shanasse" is obviously an Elven Plot. Either they, or humans familiar with the aldryami name, decided to apply it to the denizens of heaven. Strange identification to make, I concede, but there's nowt so queer as folk. One that'd make the DHans cough and splutter, at any rate, given Shanasse's mum. We need some glib, amoral sophist to give a superficially convincing account of why anyone would confuse Trees and Angels. Hrm. Nick? <gdr>
Joerg asks of the the Long (time missing) Forms:
> >How many cults (and which) are still in cold storage?
Sandy's answer, filtered so that it actually addresses the question: ;-)
> Invisible God, Horned God, Ancestor Worship, Hykim & Mikyh, Flamal,
> Magasta, Red Goddess, Eurmal, Uleria, Bolongo, Mastakos.
Are these likely to be published, leaked, or at least whispered about in dark crevices at Convulsion? I vote for the Her Redship and The Chunderer to be first out the traps by any of the above routes.
Alex.
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