John Biles Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 On 10/27/2023 at 3:52 PM, Qizilbashwoman said: If you ask someone when Easter is, it's the first full moon after the vernal equinox. If you want to know why, you're about to eventually learn a lot about the Babylonian standard calendar and how it is based on the zodiac signs of a very ancient reckoning (the dates didn't even match in Babylon thanks to the procession of the equinoxes!) And it's related to how the Jewish calendar works and how that determines the date of Passover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 9 hours ago, Erol of Backford said: Would use of Night-Jumper magic be illegal in trollball? I forgot if magic was strictly forbidden or not... All forms of magic (other than time-out healing from the beautiful Xiola Umbar priestess) are forbidden in Trollball. (Years of experience as giant referee in Life Action Trollball talking here...) 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) On 8/12/2024 at 12:33 AM, Erol of Backford said: Would use of Night-Jumper magic be illegal in trollball? I forgot if magic was strictly forbidden or not... The point of Night Jumper magic is to appear somewhere unexpectedly. While Trollball games are a good soft target for a Night Jumper attack, the target would be the audience, dark trolls and better - this is a time and place where only relatively few trollkin are present, those selected as balls or potential balls, and personal attendants in the crowd (who aren't exactly protected from being tossed into the game as the next "ball"). Edited August 13 by Joerg 1 Quote Telling how it is excessive verbis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erol of Backford Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Had to add this, saw that Jon Mith's companion was playing troll ball... that wa Xig-Zag wasn't it? I remember one particular game bewteen the Sadrorf Wacklers &Tacklers and Dagori Knee 'Em and Knut 'Em. The DKEKE inside forward, a nippy ladd going by the name of "nippy-ladd", had ran most of the pitch and crossed the trollball into the middle to the "big no. 9". In the ensuing melee the big no. 9 (a truely huge great Troll) triumphantly forced the troll-ball over the scoreline. Well the home crowd were going ballistic and the DKEKE doing their victory Hakkas, when it slowly dawned on the DKEKE players that the SWT were trying not to laugh whilst Xig-Xag their winger was near p**sing himself. The nearest giant referee, arms-a-folded, was shaking his head". "NO SCORE" boomed the ref. "DA WHOLE TROLL-BALL MUST CROSS DA LINE". Well shortly afterwards the game (and terracing) ascended into an all out riot. I blame Xig-Xag for laughing just too much when he pulled the trollkins arm out from behing his back "New, balls please" he said. Truely the oldest trick in the book. https://glorantha.steff.in/digests/GloranthaDigest/vol07/3563.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erol of Backford Posted October 27 Share Posted October 27 On 10/7/2024 at 8:14 PM, Erol of Backford said: Xig-Xag I was reading this article from TotRM 08 p.40 and it occured to me that Jon Mith's bodyguard is XigXag. So there is a trollball match between Dagori Knee 'Em and Knut 'Em and the Sadrorf Wacklers & Tacklers. The Sadrorf team thinks they score but XigXag had ripped the arms off the trollball which nullified the touchdown or whatever they call it. Is there a trollball season and if so when is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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