[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Scene Five: The Nameless Man Arrives

Mon Feb 12 17:53:18 EST 2007

Well... group work... very gloranthan indeed ;-)

----- Message d'origine ----
De : Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
Envoyé le : Lundi, 12 Février 2007, 6h13mn 56s
Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Re :   Scene Five: The Nameless Man Arrives

Oh, just in case I haven't mentioned it... That was
one of the most brilliant responses imaginable. Very
Glorantha.

--- Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> Quivering
> to the idea of having a common ancestor with the
> soulless plant-thing that was
> speaking to him, but fearing at most the return of
> Gbaji, Azhur considered all the
> answers of his companions.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> The Bishop
> Donalari guessed that the mentioned gift was Time
> and this sounded right to
> Azhur’s intuition.
> 
> 
> This meant
> that the Nameless One was giving Time to all of
> them
 Time sounded like
> mortality and wrongness to Azhur’s malkioni belief.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> The dwarf
> Kalen confirmed that the Nameless One wasn’t a
> constructed but created man,
> perhaps related to the great mystery of the origins
> of life

> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Finally
> the Nameless One was clearly asking for being
> protected as a part of mankind

> in any case, the Nameless One was thinking being a
> close part of all them
 what
> was the common point to all man-rune related beings
> here in the Dilis swamp,
> sent by the immortal brithini of Sog city?
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> For Aalmon
> and Icthya, the Nameless One was an apparition tied
> to the pagan legends of
> Grand Father Mortal, something that Azhur wasn’t
> familiar with
 but an answer
> was asked.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Azhur
> cleared up his throat, in the past he had to be
> brave in front of many enemy
> swords at once, but never he faced such a difficult
> fight.
> 
> 
> - “ I
> think
”, he began slowly. “I think that you are
”,
> his voice grew a little
> louder, “the deep savage impulse that lives in all
> men, a common trait that
> unite us in time and mortality.”
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Reluctantly,
> the knight looked at Sir El Grim’s face trying to
> see where was hiding the
> mysterious and criminal spirit:
> 
> 
> - “Pagans
> will name you “Grand Father Mortal” as a worshipped
> symbol of this common
> fragility, but the malkioni believers and the
> dwarves will name you “Sin” and
> “Breach”, because it is acting against the law of
> the Universe that brings us
> to Death. Hrestol’s teachings tell us that we can be
> saved and brought to Joy
> even as sinners, so we can enjoy life even at the
> cost of making errors against
> the rules of Malkion
 in this way, Time can be a
> pleasure, a gift given by
> Sin.”
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> With the
> finger, Azhur pointed the possessed knight of the
> Sparrow and added :
> 
> 
> - “ In
> fact and obviously now, you are him!”, then he
> showed the rest of the fellowship, “but you are
> also them!”, and finally he pointed on his own
> chest, “and of course, you are me! By
> protecting you, Nameless One, we will protect us and
> all mankind!”
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> - “ And as
> the elf suggests and as Hrestol taught us, I have to
> respect you as deep inner
> part of man, a creation of the Invisible God,
> because in fact you are Man”
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> While
> saying this last words, Azhur just realized that he
> was just paraphrasing the
> last sentence of the Nameless One : “for I *am* a
> man”. Could have the spirit
> given the solution within the riddle? This notion
> was a shock to the ex-knight
> and not-yet wizard’s apprentice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> OOC Azhur"Sinnersbane" pledging to protect "Sin"...
> Ah ah ah !
> By answering riddles, you finish illuminated... and
> by fighting Gabji, you finish krjalki yourself !
> I wonder where this answer will bring us... I hope
> you all agree more or less with it.
> 
> Good day at you !
> Loran
> 
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Sam Elliot <sam.elliot1 at btinternet.com>
> À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 7 Février 2007, 11h44mn 57s
> Objet : [HQ Ignorance]  Scene Five: The Nameless Man
> Arrives
> 
> Reasoning that it is one thing to end time and
> return to the Green Age but it is entirely another
> to do so by inviting Gbaji back into the world,
> Icthya reluctantly throws her lot in with the
> humans. Leaving her hiding place, she walks
> unsteadily over to Azhur, her buoyant legs causing
> her problems in the wetter spots.
>    
>   Her voice still weak, she clutches at a charm to
> lend herself breath, "Aalmon has it right," she
> says, "He has remembered the name of the one we
> simply call Man. You humans have forgotten his name
> so you think he has none. Not understanding him, you
> call him a criminal. I have spoken with Moment
> Yearning," she says, referring to her spirit friend,
> "who remembers the Green Age. The Firstborn Man it
> is, and he is your ancestor so you should accord him
> the respect due him."
> 
>   OOC: If Azhur refuses to believe such pagan
> nonsense, it could get fun.
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