From: Argrath@aol.com
Date: Sun 21 Aug 1994 - 05:20:41 EEST
Bob Luckin says:
>We have the hyenas - we can rebuild him
I don't know when I've laughed so long--thanks for making my day!
Klaus asks:
>BTW why do Americans call the elk "moose"?
It's from an Algonquian word meaning "he strips or eats off (trees and shrubs)." "Wapiti" is a Shawnee word meaning "white rump." "Elk" is from the Old English. While these are all woody words, not the least bit tinny, they are not as woody as "caribou."
Klaus goes on to say:
>Are you saying that the spell should work on one acre, rather
>than the land a man can plow in a day, or that a man can plow an
>acre in a day?
The term "acre" originally was rather fuzzy, and meant precisely the land a
man could plow in a day. This is the way the term is properly understood in
the Bless Crops spell, rather than as 43,560 square feet. Surveying was very
fuzzy in pre-modern Europe, and even into the twentieth century. Land
boundaries were defined in deeds by descriptions like "Starting from an elm
in
the line of the land which Jack Smith died seized of, proceeding in a
northerly direction to a pile of rocks on the bank of the South Branch,
thence with the meanderings of the stream in a westerly direction thirty
paces, ..." Surveying is still pretty damn fuzzy--just this week I
discovered a non-existent parcel (vapor dirt?).
>In the latter case I find your calculations difficult to
>believe.
Believe it.
T.J. Minas says:
> Second up: Rune spell renewal. A couple of related points here, first,
> Sanctify. Like all Ritual spells, this lasts 1 hr/pt, ...
Would you care to provide a citation to support this statement? Axis Mundi is specifically a 1 hour duration, but then again it's a Summoning spell, not Ceremony. I'm not aware of any rule that states a duration for Sanctify or its cousin Worship (Deity). In any case, your treatment of sanctified space as holy to the deity even after the spell runs out is a distinction without a difference: if the area is still holy, the Sanctify is still having an effect.
--Martin
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