[HQ Ignorance] Re : Re : Scene 47: The Ritual at Asgolan Valley
Loran
aillet_l at yahoo.fr
Wed Jan 9 12:12:13 UTC 2008
[OOC]
Lev
Do you mean that my proposal is fully accepted and makable ?
Then we have to share it with the other players...
But if it is foolish due to rules considerations, then we can discard it without regret...
Not being familiar with HQ rules and hero state, I just wanted to check with the GM if it was at least conceivable for Azhur :-S
So here is Azhur's main idea :
The prophet Hrestol is at heart of Azhur's religion.
Hrestol was a traveler who convinced a lot of pagan and heretic peoples to accept his presence and teachings (while he learned a lot from them...) in the mythological time (so powerful Heroquests, no ?), with the advantage that Hrestol was alone as a malkioni like Azhur will be.
Could we imagine an action in two steps?
1. Azhur re-enacts Hrestol convincing some hostile people to accept him.
Target: get a bonus to convince Segurane inhabitants
How? Read the "First Truth" copy, the chapters on Hrestol's life ?
2. Azhur re-enacts "the blasphemy of Leplain" and makes the Segurane Rokari head of church recognized as head of the full Rokari church (the local guy acting as Mardron).
Target : make Segurane's forces becoming allies
Alternative target : dismount conclusions of the 6th council and convert Segurane to New Hrestoli Faith (seems to be a higher difficulty because against the conclusions of the historical event) http://www.etyries.com/malkioni/mardron.htm (Lev's contribution)
How? Doctrine of New Hrestoli Church 17? Loskalmi customs 17?
For the moment, faithless, but intrepid Azhur doesn't fear to act for the benefice of an other church, because he doesn't believe any more that HIS own church is more right than ANY malkioni church (he still believing in God somewhere = Agnostic... Church's rules are ways to reach Solace, certainly some are much better than other, but which ones is a good question).
Anyway Rokarism is better than Vampirism... The Losklami should accept this point and give support.
So the planning could be:
1. Catch a prisonner
-> Get a witness as proof.
-> Be also really self-convinced of what is happening
2. Prepare the crusade of all true malkionists against Vampires
-> Help next steps
-> Get somewhere Invisible God's support? (this Crusade could also be the very own personal Azhur's quest to resurrect his lost faith?)
-> Becoming visible (at least for the Battle Seer Chapter: "Look yourselves in the cristal ball, Masters Seers, the knight Azhur is about to do something weird but important")
3. Get community attention
- Othor, for sure... he has "Support Master in Battle at 3M1" and this is a moral battle (but relationship 17)
- SwordSinger ? (relationship 13)
- Talor's fellowship ?
- Other Local ?
- Battle Seers Chapter? => full loskalmi church?
- Azhur's Father and arkati heresy following him? => full Daymare house?
-> To get support for the HeroQuests
4. Hrestol's HeroQuest
-> Get his ability to communicate and convince foreigners/sinners/heretics/pagan/vadeli
5. Go secretly to Segurane with followers, prisonner/witness and a lot of food, then preach Crusade among the population
-> Get support from the rats (baptize their king to get also his/their moral support?)
-> Get support from the local starved population itself (so even Azhur's failure or death can bring something like a rebellion)
6. Probably authorities will show up and before being executed (glup!), show-up as a knight and ask for being treated as one
-> Get publicity and an other occasion to convince people at leader level this time
-> Get more and more support for next HeroQuest
7. Ask for a fair trial (at least an ordeal), free the witness and let him speak freely but truly (SwordSinger's influence there?) and then activate 6th council re-enactment...
-> Make local rokari head an ally
-> Take moral power within the city
8. With the support of Segurane population, dispose the fat Guillarm (Hang Brigands and Slavers at 13 ? ;-) or send him back to Theoblanc the Vampire Leader or nourrish the local rats... (his protective spells can make him invincible, he is nothing as a king without obediance of his subjects).
-> Expulse King's influence or at least flee it
9. Send the signal to elves that the population is OK and open the city gates
=> We have a second full army at hand
=> the malkioni crusade against the return of the Devil can be launched.
This plan had only Azhur as actor because at first it was intended to be played while some other PC are away (dam construction and "Las Vegas-ish Vampires Show") and because there is not so much malkioni PC left in our fellowship (all are dead ahah... glups!), but now that it seems that Lev accept this, any improvement and contribution from other players are welcome, of course.
Nic already proposed to be the witness, and I think that his convincing powers can compensate is pagan state in regard of people under siege (and generally people under siege tend fall into self-delusion most of the time paranoïa).
A prisonner can still do good of course.
I think the key of success with this plan is in the activation of different sources of community support, because probably no character can achieve heroic skills level against Theoblanc before years of game
What do you think ?
Loran
----- Message d'origine ----
De : Lev Lafayette <lev_lafayette at yahoo.com.au>
À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
Envoyé le : Mercredi, 9 Janvier 2008, 11h39mn 27s
Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 47: The Ritual at Asgolan Valley
Yep, just about to write up that next scene :-)
--- Loran <aillet_l at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> [OOC]
> Nic,
> I exposed a nice plan to Lev, but I need his
> technical expertise as GM to know if Azhur is able
> to contribute heavily here...
> The main idea is to convince Segurane people to
> become our allies...
> I think we have to leave Theoblanc for bigger heros
> like Grand Wizard Talar Phillip Malaskan from
> Arolanit, who use to eat a vampire at each breakfast
> during Arkat's time, but we can serve him on a
> plate, héhé!
>
> Loran
>
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net>
> À : HeroQuest Glorantha <ignorance at mimesisrpg.com>
> Envoyé le : Mardi, 8 Janvier 2008, 23h31mn 10s
> Objet : Re: [HQ Ignorance] Scene 47: The Ritual at
> Asgolan Valley
>
> Lev Lafayette wrote:
> > --- Nic Hughes <nicolas.h at virgin.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Kevin Johnston wrote:
> >>
> >>> Knarl grabs Aalmon and says to him. We must get
> >>>
> >> back to the others.
> >>
> >>> There is no way we can interfere with these
> rites
> >>>
> >> without dying. He
> >>
> >>> then turns and starts back to headquarters.
> >>>
> >> Aalmon watches in horror as the ritual slowly
> >> unfolds and mutters in
> >> reply "There are worse things than dying and may
> be
> >> one of them. Let me
> >> think a moment."
> >>
> >> OOC: Lev, this has to be pretty potent stuff -
> can
> >> Aalmon tell with his
> >> Moon Eye roughly the order of magnitude of what
> is
> >> going on here.
> >> Heroic, Superheroic, Godlike?
> >>
> >
> > Superheroic. Theoblanc is himself certainly a
> > well-above average character of HeroQuest level
> and he
> > has his inner circle along with scores of vampires
> and
> > some pretty tough followers as well. Combined with
> ,
> > this particular ritual at this particular
> location...
> >
> >
>
> Aalmon turns and follows Knarl, for a moment the
> scene is transformed in
> his mind into a giant chessboard and he thinks to
> himself "We need a few
> more white pieces after this night"
>
> As the pair slip away he speaks to the Telmori "I
> think you should get
> word back to your people. It looks like I have
> business in the city,
> someone must let them know that something deeply
> darkly wicked is coming
> their way and its going to be hungry by the time it
> reaches them. When
> we cross water I will try to use my magic to travel
> there as quickly as
> I can and catch up with the others of my group. If
> you see the elf-woman
> ask her if to defeat this evil the plant people are
> willing to sacrifice
> part of their new forest, I do not think water alone
> will suffice
> anymore but such evil magics might be at least a
> little vulnerable to
> certain fires I know of."
>
> He pauses for a moment and closes his eyes, inside
> his mind he tries to
> feel for their guardian and let it know that he is
> coming to meet its
> carrier.
>
> OOC: I think Aalmon is done here, if all the leaders
> are exhausted its
> their best moment to slip away. Once they are clear
> Aalmon will try to
> find some stars reflected in water and then use his
> Star Walking to step
> across to the same stars reflected near the city.
> I'm not sure what the
> distances involved are but as its the full moon he
> should have a decent
> chance of pulling this particular magical trick off
> - although all that
> really matters is that he is trying to get there to
> help with the task
> of persuasion now that he is a direct eye-witness of
> the evils unfolding.
>
> > For Seshnela, this is what the Hero Wars looks
> like.
> >
> >
>
> Eeeeeuw!
>
> Nic
>
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