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On 4/26/2024 at 9:04 AM, scott-martin said:

"Inside the Line was Permanent Full and will be Permanent Full but is not Permanent Full right now. Outside the Line was and will be and is "cyclical" right now. Meditate on this. Are you, as Saint Heidi asks, 'in' or are you 'out,' right now?" 
- Tight Indigo Trousers

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All zen noodle soup aside (the udon is infinite), I think historical accounts of the Line supporting a permanent full moon operating environment reflect a combination of assumptions and facts about life in the empire in the 1616-25 era. Outsiders who had only encountered the extreme wax-and-wane tactics of lunar magicians abroad (tied to the moon cycle) would have been impressed simply to see what this magic can do when you can count on any level of steady state. Enchantments can get refreshed in perpetuity and you can plan around the effects. You're not on any schedule. Of course you might have to give something up (Etyries transactions are fractional and derivative) in order to smooth the cycle and lock in a particular power level, but to those outsiders who were writing the books in 1616-25 (i.e. bedazzled beard types who rarely get to leave the house anyway) the mere feat of normalizing cyclical magic makes the Line look incredible. Even Permanent Half was so good up in the empire that a rumor got going that the Line supported peak red magic always on all the time . . . and nobody had the technical vocabulary to correct them, so the urban legend made it into print and stayed.

However. Even lunar adepts can confirm that the dragonrise blew the transmission network like magical disasters tend to do. It will take time to recharge. Meanwhile the best the grid can do for awhile is Permanent Half, which is not awful (see above) but not boom times either. We are told that Permanent Full will be available by the time the Hero Wars board games get underway. Trust the emperor and the red seers. They're working on it.

Now if you need something like Permanent Full right now, you can always burn precious moon rock or seek out a regenerating glow source like the bat. Couple of things here. First, elite members of the lunar establishment have chosen not to generate their own glow. They are happy to smooth their cycle inside the Line but also surrender to the phase table in barbarian territory. "Something's lost but something's gained in living every day." There might even be something corrosive in having all your magic available full strength all the time but I'm not going to slurp that noodle today. The bat squad, however, are full crazy. Whether the Spot causes that crazy or the crazy causes the Spot, again, not my job to explain. It is interesting, though, that at moments when the Line rolls back to Half or flickers out entirely it becomes useful to route the bat through imperial territory so people can get an extra day or two of Full before the tour needs to move on. IMHW glow technicians are about to become a big deal as necessity mothers invention.

Dumb Theory: there is also something people call "white glow" but it ain't white exactly.
 

Cramer?

On 5/6/2024 at 10:16 AM, g33k said:

Engizi (who I suspect will be treated as the sort of "river-God Archetype")

Yelngizio, you mean.

2 hours ago, Eff said:

Raven defeats bird, because darkness hides where the sound is coming from.

Then Hawk says, "what is that smell?" and Bird says, "you smelt it, you dealt it"

3 hours ago, Eff said:

Puckish counterpoint: being able to distinguish things of different colors is good for crossing roads and picking berries. Symbolically.

Triggered. My hubby wants me to play no-map Valheim with him. He says "Just follow the paths I put down" and I'm like "What paths?"

Also, raspberry bushes can just go fuck themselves.

Orlanth best embodies the Lunar Way.

The Solars have some dark shadow but Yelm is so bright he can't see it.

The Lunars claim to combine dark and light into one but the moon separates dark phases from light phases. That is no unification in my book.

But Orlanth is the syncretization. He does good things, he does bad things, but then he realizes it and tries to fix them. His Duality is united and manifest in One. He is Perfect in his Imperfection. He has reconciled with his Other.

> Any advice on earth deities for male characters?

My Three Stars cult that includes Baroshi, Chaos-slayer!

Ever want to become a powerful warrior against chaos abominations while still maintaining personal hygiene and not scaring the villagers? Tired of the earth mothers making you plow the fields day in and day out? Well Baroshi and his stackable Impede Chaos is the cult for you!

EARTH RUNE MEN ARE PEOPLE TOO!

On 8/8/2020 at 6:45 PM, Squaredeal Sten said:

My horseback estimate is that the chance of any particular opponent just happening to heroquest when you do seems pretty small.

But before history there was no Time, so there is no reason why your opponents in the Godtime should have to be questing at the exact same time as you. Maybe they started their quest a generation earlier.

This aspect of Glorantha breaks my brain so it might be completely off base.

 

9 minutes ago, andyl said:

For me at least most dancers aren't going to be fully armed anyway.

Morris dance has entered the chat.

6 hours ago, andyl said:

Yep but not everything is combat. Trying an augment when you are doing something social would seem pretty safe. I find it difficult to see how a failed dance or sing or orate could lead to immediate death.

I think if I had players who were resistant to augments I would start by suggesting them outside combat

Our Babeester Gorian and our Sundome Templar both fumbled their Dance rolls at Apple Lane's Applefest and ended up both entangled beside each other to the Maypole on top of the sacred hill.

...then the Krarshtkids attacked.

A great evening for our Babeester Gorian!

Thane of Apple Lane had to clear out the quest zone of Jackobears with his companions, and lost rune points.

Ceremony of fertility was disrupted and our Babeester Gorian/Orgovale Summerian was very frustrated for various reasons, but the massed forces were dispersed.

Thane of Apple Lane had to protect 5 kids and a young Telmori against an ambush by 7+ baboons! Very very very lucky but thane is basically tapped of rune points at this point.

Start children's Lightbringer Quest. Thane plus kids.

Ambush begins. Of course it does. Thane, who is already tapped of rune points is befuddled by Thanatari, who gloats.

Frustrated Babeester Gori comes in and uses Create Fissure from Orgorvale on the side chamber. Thanatari dodges the fissure, but the subchamber collapses on him anyway.

Don't fuck with Maran Gor.

11 hours ago, Dissolv said:

That is a fantastic plot arc!

"Behold! I am the chosen one! Faithful servant of Mordax, Lord of Spoons! You pay him tribute every time you eat soup."

2 hours ago, Godlearner said:

Lets say a person wished to initiate himself to a God, but there are no worshippers of this God around. How would he go about doing that?

In the campaign I am in, which is using various published materials, we are basically all initiated into weird things as a result of Heroic actions.

At least in my case, it's now meant doing a lot of Divinations on holy days to try to figure out "When are your holy days?" "What skills do you favor?" "What are your rites?" "What magic do you have?" "Do you like long walks on the beach?"

We are stuck because our campaign has brought back a light with a Fate rune. So our Yelmalian has it but no one else in the world does. 😕

On 2/6/2021 at 7:38 AM, David Scott said:

There is also Clatter Hoof, an Initiate of Velhara, the Lady of the Beasts. As a Minotaurs he disdains magic, the NPC has none.

Just went back to Beast Valley for the Great Hunt (in the shadow of Kero Fin!) and brought Clatterhoof back with me to Apple Lane. Reeeeeeally looking forward to when the Varmandi first get to see we've added him to Apple Lane's tug-of-war team at this year's Applefest.

On 1/29/2021 at 9:36 PM, Scorus said:

Interesting theories as to where they are and what they have been doing are most welcome, whether they are thriving, struggling, dead, captive, or whatever!

Gringle and Quackjohn were going to Nochet, but we don't know where they are.

Everyone knows that Piku is now in Old Man Village on the Orlmarth tula. Only we know that his son is going to finish his apprenticeship soon and if we can restore the smithy at Apple Lane, Piku will encourage him set up shop there, since we returned Piku's blue gem.

"Blood of Zeus" on Netflix

On 1/18/2021 at 2:53 PM, EricW said:

For example, a tribe which lives in an area afflicted by undead, surely they would have loads of Humakt initiates.

Quack quack quackquackquack quack quaaaaack!

42 minutes ago, claycle said:

Or that the previously mentioned Barbeestor Gorian led an insane charge against the Silver Shields and broke Pharandros' line.

Indeed, So insanely stupid I wrote a bad epic poem in another language.

This kills the joke

We killed a dream dragon and our Babeester Gorian said, "Sure I will join this cult" and then forgot about her temple and then there was a penitent acolyte who showed up and then starved to death waiting and our Babeester Gorian was kinda guilty about that. And now I can mention that maybe our Babeester Gorian should consider taking snacks up to the temple on her new seasonal pilgrimages.

We brought three new stars to Orlanth's ring. No one noticed much. Even though we were meteors landing on the Starfire Ridges. The Orlmarth were kind of supportive, but cult supporters kinda thin on the ground.

Argarth snookered the Thane of Apple Lane into becoming some sort of weapon, if the Thane of Apple Lane can start some sort of MLM scheme. Earnest recruits thin on the ground.

Our Yelmalian spread his seed all over all the fields and helped us survive a bad harvest season, but next year's omens are terrible. I have commanded him to not touch himself except during holy days.

Our Arroyan married a giant. They kinda damaged the town but that sounds like a good wedding reception. He is going to fight ice giants on Valind's glacier now which has temporarily postponed a couple of practical questions.

 

On 7/5/2019 at 1:08 AM, Lurking Grue said:

The game is very good, I love it to bits, but the music is fantastic and deserves a separate mention!

    Duh-doo doo-de-doo doo-de-doode-doo-dedoo
Doo-de-doo doo-de-doo doo-de-doode-doode-doo
    Duh-doo doo-de-doo doo-de-doode-doode-doo
Doo-de-doo doo-de-doo doo-de doo-doo-doode-oo

    Dadoo-doo-dedoooo
    Daddo-doo-dedoooo
    Dadoo-doo-dedoooo
Doo-de-doode-doode-dooo

    Duh-doo doo-de-doo doo-de doode-doo-dedoo
Doo-de-doo doo-de-doo doo-de doode-doo-dedoo

(Enjoy the earworm!)

On 1/10/2021 at 6:47 AM, Joerg said:

The Lunars allegedly have collected those hidden parts, and they have come to a count somewhere beyond 50. They are positive that they will be (or have been) able to reconstruct a pure Nysalor without using any parts of Gbaji nevertheless...

Wouldn't judge too harshly...happens to me too every time I assemble something from IKEA.

The index has not helped me even once

On 1/9/2021 at 7:24 AM, soltakss said:

Is there an official limit for the magic object that a Pc can use?

The official limit is called "my GM"

23 hours ago, John Biles said:

But I personally imagine the snowman played by Burl Ives as the true face of Wakboth