From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Mon 18 Jul 1994 - 20:44:51 EEST
David Dunham:
> Chris Johnson suggests
> >An Idea! If we use a function of the Priest's POW as a modifier to their
> >Cermony skill, we can *encurage* the Priest to keep a higher POW.
> But it already is a modifier -- Ceremony is subject to the Magic modifier,
> which depends on POW.
Yeah, but this doesn't prevent a POW 2 priest from officiating, if his ceremony were already decently high. Would interfere with him raising it, this is true.
> Joerg ponders
> >Illuminates might be able to produce untainted life force. Opinions?
> Then illumination might be easier to detect.
A slipperly slope we already need to be on: according to the Sandy One, you merely require a Big Enough Spell, it seems.
Nick Brooke:
> Among my Wenelians, the culture-hero Wendel is the son of Vorlan, the local
> Storm God, and the Oak Woman, mistress of the forest. [...] A burning
> oak-tree, blazing but not consumed, is his symbol. Does this confuse Trees
> and Angels enough for you?
Not really, for the purposes of Generic Solar culture, anyway. I see no likely route connecting this from a Aldryami source to a DH destination (or even vice versa, if one must). Personally, I'd tend to just abolish/ downplay the DHan use of the word, I think. Or as Joerg would say:
"Luxite, Luxite, Luxite!"
> The thought of a Christmas tree, all lit up, as the DH Shanasse image, is
> too horrible to contemplate.
Obviously a Carmanian import, right? "Merry Hrestmas!"
> That's a pint's worth of glib, amoral sophistry IMHO. See ya!
Quite possibly. Take the matter up with Sandy for payment. ;-) (I can see the arguments being rehearsed now, handily extending religious prohibitions to Aiding and Abetting. <g>)
> You listed the "unpublished" cults on Sandy's index:
[...]
> Magasta (Tales #11, the recent Sea Special)
Don't know how I missed that one: it's the only one of my Taleses that Sam _doesn't_ have. ;-)
Alex.
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