From: Alex Ferguson (alex@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Fri 30 Sep 1994 - 12:16:14 EET
Sandy deduces from my aghast statement:
> >Bashed neeps are mashed turnip, of course. A traditional
> >accompaniment to haggis
that:
> The intent, presumably, to make the haggis look good by
> comparison? Kidding here.
Makes Perfect Sense to me. Mind you, it doesn't work.
> I now openly confess to liking mashed
> turnips, at least when mixed with potatoes in the Welsh fashion.
Bashed neeps are neat turnip, alas, though mashed potatoes are traditionally served too. I should also mention the other, absolutely _key_ ingredient of a successful Burns' Supper: get too pissed to notice how appalling the food is.
> Teleos is not just a color-coded EU, if only because the children of
> the various tribes only rarely happen to be the correct color.
We thought of that one; why do you think said EU recently instituted (admittedly fairly notional) common citizenship? (Amounting to roughly that all the passports are the same naff colour.) There aren't yet too many cases of one nationality being born to another, but then, look at the Republic of Ireland's football (that's "soccer" to you USAns) team.
> There's simply no point in
> killing 'em, but at least they can hate 'em.
Sounds much like European history of the last 50 years.
> >I think I got the impression from someplace that there are
> >more humans than uz in the [Kithori] tribe
> I got this impression, too, but now I'm not sure where. Maybe
> it's just because the tribe is about 50-50 troll/human, but most of
> the trolls are just trollkin scum (who don't count).
That's a point. Not only do they not count, they only won't be counted, by the typical visitor who shows during the day when the kinlets aren't let out.
> >I can't think why there should be two distinct lots of
> >darkness-worshipping humans in Heortland, most of whose
> >residents are "otherwise accounted for".
> Relics from the Only Old One's regime?
Well, yeah, but why would they be separate? What's the nature/location/ relationship with first group of this alleged second lot? How do said second lot fit in with the Volsaxi, and/or the Hendriki? Someone with the merest modicum of an excuse for wanting to know should go interrogate Greg as to what he had in mind with the Black Arkat writeup, if we've squeezed all we can out of Sandy on the subject.
> Cities are _exactly_ the same in Genertela and Pamaltela. It's just
> that Genertelans think they are good, and Pamaltelans think they are
> bad.
Wotta stitch-up. Firstly, I think you're echoing the Doraddi view here, not the "Pamaltelan" view (if there were such a thing). And in the second place, I don't believe that a populous have hold a generally negative view about their lifestyle without it becoming self-fulfilling.
> In my own campaign, the PCs got along much better in Fonrit
> than they did in Jolar. [...]
> The openness and generosity of the Doraddi confused and
> frightened them.
I've _read_ some of Sandy's scenarios: I someone was open and friendly to me in one of his games, I`d run, not walk, screaming from the room. ;-)
> I think it's safe to say that "in Prax", there are converts
> to Yelmalio from among the plains tribes, and if you visited Pavis,
> the percentages of such converts might be reasonably high, as high as
> CoP shows. Ditto for Orlanth, Humakt, & co. Just like you can find
> plenty of Christians among the Japanese in big cities.
I think I more-or-less agree with this. However, spirit cults being endemic in Prax, I'm sure that many "foreign" gods may be worshipped in this (Sandy would prolly say "false") mode, where they've been exposed to 'em. And elsewhere, there are doubtless many native spirits which a passing God Learner might reckon were "aspects" of some greater deity.
Alex.
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