From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 26 Aug 1994 - 09:41:49 EEST
Sandy on Garzeen's Quest for Love:
> I suggest that more likely is that this task was RESTRICTED to a single
> subcult of Issaries by the God Learners, who found it an irksome
> chore -- I assume that before the Second Age, all Issaries cultists
> were burdened with this job.
I suggest that more likely is that before the God Learners, Garzeen was an entirely separate cult, with this peculiar practice, and they retained it when the GLers "discovered" he was Issaries' son.
Me:
> >my continuing suspicion that the \infty rune _really_ means "member
> >of the Celestial Court"
> Well, certainly all the members of the court had the infinity
> Rune. On the other hand, Flamal & the Invisible God don't seem to
> have been. Of course, the Invisible God doesn't fit into the whole
> Celestial Court ethos anyway.
And isn't the original owner of any rune, either. I think his infinity rule is a) problematical: has anyone successfully cast RuneQuest Sight on the bleeder? and b) means something different to either of the above taxonomies. Flamal's a bit of a sticking point, I admit.
> The shoulder-to-shoulder formation in musketry times was not
> because of slow rates of fire, but because in order to carry through
> an attack on an enemy line, you needed a big block of dudes.
Yeah, that's the reason _for_ it; the slow rate of fire is what would make it (relatively) survivable.
> I've now discovered (via Henk) that David Cake lives in Oz. I now
> must argue strenuously against my earlier proposed switch of Cake and
> Hall, because relocating TotRM to Oz would be harmful to American
> interests.
This sounds worrying like the sort of proclamation that issues forth from the Oval Office immediately before some small Caribbean island gets invaded.
Alex.
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