[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Scene 22: The City of Glass and Bronze

[Nic Hughes]

Loran, do you mind if I change the sequence a bit so we have our 
discussions over the mean I mentioned IC earlier. I would rather write 
it up that way than have all our deep meaningful discussions whilst 
walking to the palace.

Nic


Loran wrote:
>
> Azhur
> remembered his father sending him on the quest for the Banner of Red
> Valor and then to Sog City where the Fellowship was born. Suddenly he
> wept... He wept with recognition, he wept liberated, he wept feeling
> alive at last. His father should have been a very wise and cunning
> man to make his son being at the right place with the right tool at
> the right moment... or his father was a very blessed and holy man
> inspired by the Great Creator, whatever His Name is and His Way of
> being worshiped, to make his son discovering the value of the old
> standard exactly when the fellowship needed support.
>
>
>
>
>
> Othor
> calmed his master and helped him in his preparation for a late visit
> with the Overlord
> of Sentanos, the Princess Erengazor.
>
>
> On
> their way to the princess Azhur told to his friends:
>
>
> -”Icthya
> was right, the banner is alive and ready to receive our support. I
> have studied it since Icthya gave me the advice to put my trust in
> it. Much more important, I have just learned today in an old scroll
> at St Humakt's church that it's an old artifact owned in the past by
> Zorscam the axe-wielder of Talor. The axe-wielder was beaten in
> battle by Wilkairtha,
> but the banner stayed on Arkat and Talor's side.”
>
>
>
> He
> smiled to the moving plant:
>
>
>  -
> “Perhaps plants know better how to fight winter and seed hope for a
> coming spring... you showed me the right direction... I will never be
> the same anymore, but I can still be useful.”
>
>
>
> Then
> he added to Aalmon:
>
>
> -
> “I need your insights, Aalmon, because only you and your weird
> teachings can help me to understand both the cryptic messages of the
> banner and the situation where I stand spiritually.”
>
>
>
> To
> all, he concluded:
> -
> We will be busy in our very next future, the Banner of Talor's
> Fellowship is waiting for us, Wilkairtha
> is waiting for us and now the princess of Sentanos is also waiting
> for us !”
>
>
> [OOC]
> Great news, no ?
> ;-)
> Loran
>
>
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
> À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> Envoyé le : Mercredi, 25 Juillet 2007, 12h27mn 33s
> Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Re :  Scene 22: The City of Glass and Bronze
>
>
> As Anzhur is in the temple of St. Humact, he immersed
> himself in brooding sense of Death that hung in the
> air. Death-worshippers they were, there was no doubt.
> But it was veneration, as they were also truly
> dedicated to skill at arms, which Anzhur respected,
> and had a total commitment to Truth.
>
> He watches the tests at arms for a while, and some joy
> returns to him, for truly the skill and dedication of
> the Liturgists was great. A temple guardian provides
> him a tour of the facilities, which includes a visit
> to the library where many of the tenets of St. Humact
> are kept, along with some of the finest works of
> battle literature in Railos.
>
> As if by chance, Anzhur espied an old, musty scroll
> bound in red cloth, so very similar to that of his
> banner. His heart leapt when he saw the gold lettering
> emblazoned on the case.
>
> "The Fall of Zorscam, Companion of the Laughing
> Warrior"
>
> Excited Anzhur opened the scroll-case and started
> reading, requesting assistance from the temple
> guardian on the occassional word or phrase.
>
> It spoke elegantly of a great battle between Zorscam,
> the axe-wielder, by the werewolf Wilkairtha who
> challenged him to single combat. The werewolf justly
> blamed the Laughing Warrior for an affliction among
> his people, and called his Companions craven. The
> battle runs for many lines, and great magics are
> invoked including numerous references to a red
> standard, carried by Zorscam.
>
> Despite many wounds, Wilkairtha eventually bested
> Zorscam, cast the banner down and took his axe. The
> banner was recovered by allied of Talor and Arkat, but
> the axe was gone. Mention is made that Wilkairtha then
> travelled to Seshnela where he and a army of
> werewolves which razed the old Kingdom.
>
> Giddy with the discoveries Anzhur rushed back to his
> lodging and, breathing heavily, requested the name
> from his banner.
>
> The letters formed simply and cryptically: "I am the
> Banner of Talor's Fellowship"
>
>
>
> --- Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>   
>> [IC]
>> Agreeing with Aalmon, Azhur tried to rejoiced
>> himself in front of a good glass of wine, but even
>> his “merrywine” magic couldn’t help him escape his
>> melancholic mood… his youth has passed away, eternal
>> winter was waiting for him. News of dying pagan gods
>> was just an other proof of a declining world.
>>
>> For Azhur the city of Syran appeared totally
>> consecrated to idolatry. Arkati fragmented beliefs
>> mixed and opposed more surely than in Otkorion were
>> the Archbishop Suranthyr was ruling with an iron
>> hand the henotheist church. Convinced that he will
>> not find any hint of wisdom in this town, he still
>> made the effort to visit main temples and churches,
>> asking permissions to look for any archives that
>> could help him to understand Talor’s time better.
>> His target was to find any clue on the laughing
>> warrior’s companions that could help the fellowship
>> to locate and reunite the three weapons of the hero.
>>
>> [OOC]
>> A chance for the game master to give more hints, if
>> he want to.
>>
>> [IC]
>> While visiting so-called sacred places, he felt once
>> a strange vibration in him, as if a distant call was
>> aiming him toward an unknown direction. He looked
>> around and discovered that his eyes have just been
>> caught by a pagan representation that he identified
>> later in his copy of the Holy Book as the antique
>> sorcerer Humct, the one worshipped by pagans as the
>> death god. “Death again, thought the young loskalmi,
>> my destiny is now fully linked to it. War and Death
>> are my future and not ordinary death nor war, I
>> should be better prepared for this confrontation…”
>>
>> He was considering his feelings, when other thoughts
>> came to him. “Arkat betrayed the malkioni for this
>> pagan god, Arkat was killed too. Did he lost his
>> faith as I’m loosing mine? Was his fight against
>> Gabji the only way for him to keep living? But Talor
>> was killed too, he didn’t loose his faith… even if
>> his laughs could let think that he perhaps lost his
>> mind somehow… do I’m getting crazy too?”
>>
>> On his way back, he tried to summarize the very
>> strange lessons of the Banner. “Aalmon should help
>> me here, only him can understand what’s
>> interobjectivity can mean, he thought. Icthya was
>> right, the plant-man will be happy to learn that the
>> Banner has his own will, but is it wise to dedicate
>> his soul to such an object?”
>>
>> Suddenly he get a fantastic idea and ran crazily up
>> to the place Othor was keeping the Banner. He wanted
>> to test a point immediatly. He unfurled the Banner
>> and asked with a deep troubled voice:
>> - “Red Banner of Valor, if you’re something more
>> than accumulated knowledge in a old fabric, you can
>> perhaps answer questions… so here is mine, my very
>> first one, but it needs just a very simple answer :
>> “Who are you, I mean, what’s your name?”
>>
>> [OOC]
>> If we can interact, then we are on a good way to
>> have a guardian, no ?
>> If the Banner has a name by itself, Azhur will make
>> the presentation and a supernatural debate can
>> begining among the players.
>> :-)
>> Loran
>>
>> ----- Message d'origine ----
>> De : Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net>
>> À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
>> Envoyé le : Jeudi, 19 Juillet 2007, 0h20mn 30s
>> Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 22: The City of
>> Glass and Bronze
>>
>>
>> (...)
>> Aalmon listens calmly to what the messenger has to
>> say, although he is 
>> clearly upset at the news about Kraken for some
>> reason.
>>
>> When the messenger is gone he gathers a few things
>> together to leave "It 
>> has been a hard few weeks. I suggest that to lighten
>> the mood a little 
>> we each bring one thing that we like to share a
>> feast together before we 
>> speak with the overlord. Even though we have spent
>> time together the 
>> past days have shown me how little I know about you
>> - its not always 
>> easy to know where to start learning about one
>> another so I suggest we 
>> start with our stomachs. With that in mind I will
>> take your leave to go 
>> about my business and to do a little shopping. Oh
>> and I won't be the 
>> least bit insulted if not everyone's tastes are like
>> my own."
>>
>> Wearing his least travel-worn set of clothes he sets
>> off into the city. 
>> Passing through markets he replaces a few of his
>> most worn-out 
>> possessions and those belongings which have been
>> lost or broken in his 
>> travels, at each stall seeking word of one who
>> speaks of the red moon. 
>> Taking a few of his precious silver coins out he
>> approaches some foreign 
>> merchants seeking out the sorts of flavoursome spicy
>> foods that the 
>> Pelorian refugees had brought with them to Arrolia
>> and that he had begun 
>> to miss, along with a couple of skins of wine that
>> could perhaps pass 
>> for Arrolian. After this he seeks out a speaker for
>> the Goddess - as 
>> passionate and uncouth as to be expected in this
>> faraway place - he 
>> humbly requests time to pray and to speak together.
>>
>> He listens to the news of the Empire with only mild
>> interest, yet is 
>> strangely disturbed by the tale of the dead storm
>> god of a frozen 
>> people. For all the enthusiasm of the demagogue he
>> cannot help but 
>> shudder slightly at the thought of the Dead Emperor
>> and his minions 
>> turning to god killing, as if the essence of the
>> Kingdom of War were 
>> everywhere making each hand turn to war rather than
>> peace and each 
>> conflict worse than it need be.
>>
>> At last he asks a favour of the preacher "A cousin
>> of mine had a silver 
>> charm which gave him good fortune whenever he tried
>> to find something 
>> that was lost or mislaid. As we quest to find things
>> left lost for many 
>> lifetimes a charm of this sort would help me and my
>> fellow questers in 
>> our long quest against War itself. Would you do me
>> the honour of helping 
>> me to gain such a charm, so that the blessings of
>> the Goddess can be 
>> upon us in our task?"
>>
>>
>>
>> OOC: Aalmon has 6HP set aside for this which would
>> be a pretty powerful 
>> charm (somewhere in the W2 range), if the Demagogue
>> can't call down so 
>> powerful a Lune then Aalmon will be happy with
>> whatever help he can get.
>>
>> Nic
>>
>>     
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