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To the OP: EXCELLENT work. I hope to see more as the project progresses. You really did your homework on this one. I think of myself at pretty well read-in on Glorantha lore, but you've found niches I didn't even know where there. Props. I will pick one very small nit with your table, however. For the Sea-blessing, where Ernalda is Wife and Magasta is Husband protector, I would suggest that the warrior archetype should be Marine /Light Infantry instead of Heavy Infantry. It just seems more appropriate to the pairing and the origin of where you're getting the troops [Fishers].

Or the witty banter... And that's just sad.

Yep. It was 'death to collaborators' day in Pavis. Most of the converts and sympathizers were put to the sword. In the Guide to Glorantha [the two volume super books] there is a pic of Jotoran Bladesong, former Lunar Constable, as a ring-necked thrall to a Babeester Axe Woman.

Well, as for the Lunars wanting Brygga dead, the Garhounds are wealthy enough to hire Black Fangs and the nastier, more violent types of Eurmals to protect her. In addition, she helps keep control of the city with a minimum of fuss. 'Fuss' being defined as ALL the Sartar factions joining together to eff up the Lunar program in Prax. Think of her as a the mayor of Antwerp in 1941 during the Nazi occupation. Everybody knows the mayor is Free Netherlands in his personal beliefs, but he's a valuable figurehead and serves to keep the population under control in what really is a 'sideshow' theater. Getting rid of Mr. Mayor would entail having to keep top flight combat units in Holland, and a lot of them, when those units are desperately needed in Russia. Such is how I see Brygga's position.

@g33k All too true. It take a couple-three good hard rains to clear the gunk off the road. A folks in Western Washington really ought to know that one... lol!

Well, fortunately, it started raining later in the day, with rain pretty much all night thereafter. The dusting we had is gone. However, this doesn't bode entirely well. Normally, we get snow [if we get any at all] in January or early February. It usually lasts a couple weeks and it's gone. But getting a dusting this early in the winter could very well mean a cold snap winter, which we see about once every 10 years or so. But it could be worse. I could live in the Midwest, where snow comes in October and lives on your couch for six months 😂

Hey, it's not even politicians.... There is absolutely no reason why a 'Real Housewife' or Kardashian is famous at all. Or TikTok 'influencers'. Or 'eSports'. Or 'poker stars'. I think the point of that graffiti statement is the subcontext that Western culture is actually devaluing intelligence in favor of ignorance. And if that isn't a 'doomsday scenario' I don't know what is.

Here is some doomsday graffiti if ever I saw some. Can I get an 'Amen', brothers and sisters?

The graffiti reads: "Roses are red We watch you with drones [note: this next is chalked on the bomb-- it's hard to read] This is for making me miss Game of Thrones 🤣

If you want to see otherwise reasonably intelligent people completely lose their Goddamned minds, just come to the Puget Sound when it snows. Like it's doing right now. People around here just plain freak the Hell out when Santa's dandruff starts falling from the sky. There's a run on everything from bottled water to generators at the stores and people acting like it's the Apocalypse. God as my witness, I wouldn't take a million dollars to go to a Walmart right now. What's more, most people in Western Washington are constitutionally unable to drive in snow. They drive too fast, too close together, or they crawl along at 10 miles an hour in horrified fear. I love my home state, I really do. It's beautiful and not as full of hipsters as many think [PROTIP: Don't live in Seattle]. But I know my people, and right now my people are completely losing their shit.

I would say that if the Tusk Riders worship any other deities, it would be along the same level of the Agrimori and Foundchild.... The Cult of the Bloody Tusk holds so much power over them that any other influence is almost trivial. That doesn't mean there aren't any other cults, of course. It might be germane to note that Tusk Riders are reasonably friendly with Darkness cults, so just imagine how much 'fun' a Tusk warband would be with a bunch Zorak Zorans in it....

And what's a holiday without Weird Al....

Christmas. Because we have to. But since the make us have to Christmas, we might as well Christmas our way. I'll be posting Christmas with 'tood vids a couple of times a week until Christmas Eve. Please add your favorites! Enjoy.

Nope. Not even. If you have a tentacle growing out of your head, no amount of Illumination is going to hide that fact. That take Illusion Rune magic, and lots of it. I've never heard of Illumination concealing overt signs of Chaos taint. As to Illumination helping Chaotics, it absolutely does. Couldn't agree more. For one thing, Illumination helps the Chaotic be patient enough to learn tradecraft in the first place.

I didn't say that an Illuminate was 'clean'. I was implying that Chaotic can mitigate his Chaotic condition with Illumination, but can't remove or ignore it, no more than an Illuminate Elf can 'ignore' his Plant Rune or a human can ignore his Man Rune. An Illuminate has greater choice over how he manifests his Chaotic nature, the way he chooses to destroy, but not the impulse for destruction itself. The ONLY way [or at least the only way I know of] to purge someone of the taint of Chaos is through the Cleansed One HeroQuest.

My Space:1889 character, Capt. Wesley Jacob Devereaux, late of the 10th US Cavalry. [That's pronounced Wehs-leh Jay-cob Deh-veh-rooh for those of you unfamiliar with a South Carolinian accent] Looks like he'll fit in reasonably well 😁

There are LOTS of power groups in Pavis that would love to do away with Brigga Scissorhands. From Governor Sor-Eel, Lunar interests outside the bureaucracy [the Temples, the Army, etc.], the Ingilli clan and Zola Fel river interests, the Sun Towners... Hell, even her fellow Sartarites of the Indagos clan would like to see her deposed if not actually dead. [Note: Brigga is one of the leaders of the Garhound clan, a Sartarite clan that came to Prax with Duke Dorasor. She's the sister of clan head, Sir Daved Garhound and are about equal in political pull, though in different venues. They own the best farmlands and have the better relations with the nomads than Indagos, who came much later. They're both Orlanthi rival clans, but Indagos tends to focus more on freeing Sartar, where Garhound has made its bed in Prax and is content with that]

The problem with the Lunar's logic is that in Glorantha the Rune influences conduct. This is part of the mythical structure of the world... The nature of Chaos is not 'change for change's sake', as it's Lunar apologists would have it, but nihilism... destruction for destruction's sake. Chaos is the antithesis of organization... any kind of organization. Societal rules, the Great Compromise, even physics [such as exist on Glorantha] are anathema to Chaos, which demands that nothing is consistent, nothing is stable, save only the cycle of creation, destruction, and creation again. There are only three ways to prevent a being inflicted by the Chaos rune for destroying everything around them... Illuminate them, kill them, or redeem them by removing their Chaos rune. As of this moment, we know of ONE HeroQuest that'll do that for you. That is the Cleansed One subcult of Zola Fel river cult. [Note: IMG, that subcult exists in ONE river cult not all of them. AFAIC, river cults are not 'interchangeable'. The myths that effect the Creek-Stream watershed have no bearing on those the effect the Zola Fel or the Oslir. Ergo, while the cults are VERY similar, they are still different from each other. -- but that is another discussion]

I'd seen looking all over for this, turns out I'd bought it already 😁 This is a d100 conversion for space adventures. It's very raw and has a certain 'written on a word processor in college' feel to it. But what do you want? It was written in Golden Age of Game Fan Press... the 80's. Anyway, enjoy. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/355945/Worlds-Beyond-Classic-Reprint

That's an error I think Mongoose made with a new game. They did this huge K/S and relaunched their 2300AD title, but the forums for it remain in the main Traveller bracket. That can make it hard to find the discussions and info you're looking for.

So, the Americans on the board, Happy Thanksgiving. May you travel safe, enjoy your family, and appreciate what you have. And may the NY Giants beat the balls off the Dallas Cowturds. Because Jerry Jones doesn't deserve nice things. And now a brief holiday message from WKRP:

I disagree... but only slightly. HeroQuests grant PC's the opportunity to become more powerful, but at very great risk. I've never had a party try a HeroQuest at my table yet. However if one was in offing, I would make the warnings absolutely clear: You are taking your character's lives in your hands. This is not your 'Sacred Time' visit with the Gods. You'll be directly interacting with myths and the consequences, both good and bad, are significant. Think of it this way.... Say you're a Bronze Age Greek who is about to undertake a HeroQuest. This isn't simply the retelling of Zeus founding your city. You do that every year, it's a comfortable well-known myth. Your participation is almost like watching a sports event on TV. But YOUR HeroQuest is entirely different. You'll be magically transported back to the Heroic Age and have to reenact some of the deeds of the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. For the purposes of the Quest you will actually be one of the men at the benches of the Argo, undertaking all the risks of the quest. The reward for success is very high, perhaps the permanent favor of Athena in all your endeavors for life, but you are risking your very soul and Hades is a greedy god indeed.

And Argrath never does actually catch him, though he does do Gim-Gim in, metaphorically speaking.

Talk about terrifying.... Yeah, that'd do it. OTOH, here is something EQUALLY frightening... SHAVED BEAR! Seriously, if I was the veterinarian who had to shave a bear, I'd sedate it, do the job, and be on the next plane to another time zone by the time 'Gentle Ben' woke up! Ok, jokes aside, this is Dolores a European Black Bear at the Tiergarten Leipzig. The poor girl has mange so bad her hair falls out.

Fair enough. So flip the script and make the threat's origin the Tunnelled Hills or Kralorela rather than the Lunar Empire. Simple. There's nothing saying that the threat isn't coming from anywhere... Pamaltela, Jrustela, Esrolia... it would be funny as Hell to make the threat origin be the vendref caste of the Grazelanders! THAT'D show those uppity sun-pony SOBs! 😅 And again, the penetration of Chaos cults in the Empire, if any, is only as deep as YOU choose to portray it. How many of the handouts for River of Cradles, Sun County, and Shadows on the Borderlands are true information and how many are false flags?