From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Thu 22 Sep 1994 - 20:27:56 EEST
Nick exclaims:
> Mike, these subject lines will never catch on!
<grumble> Many Moons ago, when I was Gently Encouraging Henk to do the Subject-summary things (for which Yet More Thanks, Henk), I suggested it might _encourage_ people to supply meaningful subject fields. Or at least ones other than "stuff" or "Re: RuneQuest Daily <Some volume which may or may not be the one they are or are not replying to> Part <Random>" Fine fool I look now, thanks guys.
> Alex parenthesises:
> > Unless Gloranthan menses happen in quadruple time, or are keyed to
> > some moon other than the obvious one, which would be more than a tad
> > unsettling.
> That's the thought that caused me to bring it up and discover the non-
> answer: "28 days is a mother-cycle, not a moon-cycle".
Greg must have been channelling lame answers at that point, or just being delightfully bloody-minded. Has Greg said what the period of the Blue/ any other pre-Red Moon was? I think it'd make _some_ sense to have a Green Age moon interpretable a la Eastre, et al, subsequently broken by Patriarchal Macho Bull Shit, though the B(aopR)M can obvious not be the One True Fertility God, being a tad broke those days.
> > If [Pelandan] culture is preserved anywhere to any extent, it's in the
> > Generic Pelorian Farmer Culture, not the especially-stepped-on Oppressed
> > Carmanian Peasants, I think.
> Nah. The homelands of the old Pelandan culture were occupied by the
> Carmanians.
Yes, yes, we know. But other parts of the bowl could obviously have been colonised either before or at the time of the occupation. Now, maybe the Carmanians have left the Pelandan underclass intact, but that'd be uncharacteristically Nice of them, really. (Sadly, I can't even remember what G:G says about the religion of Carmanian serfs...)
> Pelandan =/= Pelorian.
I wasn't suggesting they were Equivalent, just a degree of similarity. You have the advantage of me, Nick, from having scoured the Entekosiad: are you Leaking that those myths are _not_ part of, or compatable with, Pelorian Farmer Mythology? Not that I want to start a Lodril =[/]= Spearman Raging Flame war, mind you.
> > I like to think of [Teleos folk] as being like a colour-coded EU.
> Greg put his foot in it (and swallowed) at Convulsion '92 when he gave as
> an instance of Teleos tribes' quote irrational unquote prejudices the fact
> that everyone hates the Greens 'cos they eat frogs.
I missed that one. Proof Positive that mine is the One True Analogue. So what colour are the Teleos Belgians, then, if the Germans are purple and the French are green?
> BTW, what's a bashed neep? No trollkin runelord connection, I hope!
Alex.
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