<div dir="ltr"><div>OOC: How about Fire Sight (that will fit in nicely with my quest) from the Sickle at 17, and Improved First Aid at 17 (already have normal first aid=>15) from the robes? How many HP? [I was considering asking for Infinity Rune Sight but I think that might be pushing it :P]</div>
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<div>Riku responds, "That's fine. I have time. Although, I am not 'particularly' known for my patience."</div>
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<div>OOC2: Well, well, well...perhaps a little bit of advice I received from some certain Luatha, perhaps? Could be.... ;)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Lev Lafayette <<a href="mailto:lev@mimesisrpg.com">lev@mimesisrpg.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>OOC: You only have to spend Hero Points if the item confers an ability<br>and whether it does is entirely up to you.<br>
<br>Nauticles initially starts rambling about Yelm the Sun God and his<br>Celestial Court and then stops mid-sentence. He can see the look in your<br>eye that indicates that you're not the sort who is gives in to tales<br>
made up on the spot no matter how well they're spun.<br><br>"By the Gods. You mean the Sunstorm of Kralorela, don't you?"<br><br>Naticles looks more than a little uncomfortable. "That will take a<br>
little time."<br><br>OOC2: Now Damien, where did you did up that obscure Glorantha<br>reference!?!<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br>On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 21:14 +1000, Damien Bosman wrote:<br>> The Abiding Book was a masterpiece to Riku. He locked himself below<br>> deck studying every sentence over and over again, and absorbing the<br>
> knowledge of the Invisible God. Riku was indeed in high spirits, as he<br>> had even managed to unearth some old equipment of special significance<br>> to him back in the Godlearner ruins (A jewel-encrusted Sickle, as well<br>
> as some old robes from his childhood - [OOC: Need HP to acquire<br>> these, Lev? ] ). "The time is right", he thought to himself. Riku's<br>> hands twitched as he approached Nauticles when he was alone....."now,<br>
> my dear man, I understand you have problems....and I feel for you. I<br>> really do. I may even be pursuaded to help you. However, I have a<br>> question of utmost import." He stepped closer and whispered in his<br>
> ear, "What do you know of Sunstorm? "<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Loran <<a href="mailto:aillet_l@yahoo.fr">aillet_l@yahoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br>> Since the discoveries in the Abiding Book, Azhur was feeling<br>
> very strange, in fact almost sick. Whatever the angle he was<br>> considering the object, waves of different and contradictory<br>> emotions were blowing with violence in him.<br>> At first he felt an ecstatic veneration for the One Creator<br>
> and His wondrous Miracles, then he was surprised to see that<br>> their own particular story was described there. Seeing the<br>> quest for Saint Talor's weapons mentioned under the title "The<br>
> Hero Wars" strengthen his determination for the quest nearly<br>> to fanaticism for a while. Because the classical version of<br>> the Abiding Book wasn't the sacred text of the New Hrestoli<br>
> Church, his doubts on the worthiness of the religious<br>> teachings of his youth came back strongly, reinforcing once<br>> again his agnosticism and leaving him with the impression that<br>
> he was definitely separated from all the westerner believers<br>> of the Invisible God, believing in one god but no church.<br>><br>><br>> Each time Riku accepted to release his grip on the divine<br>
> manuscript, Azhur read more details. He then discovered<br>> something he never felt so intensively before, a terrible and<br>> cold rage, growing in him like an worm, eating away all his<br>
> good and noble education for a thirst of murderous<br>> confrontation with Aalmon whom he had sincerely given the<br>> title of 'friend' and seemed to deserve in return only<br>> jealousy, deceit and treason. A lot of details appeared<br>
> now with a very different meaning: this ability to always slip<br>> around moral arguments to acheive a practical solution or a<br>> price that someone else would have to pay, like the heroquest<br>
> he lead and which killed Azhur's pure loskalmi faith, his<br>> strange religion about these weird pagan twinstars, a pagan<br>> practice which probably deserved a much more critical<br>
> attention now and of course his disgusting<br>> krjalki brother... this permanent indecency, this ever<br>> lasting lust, this filthy phalus<br>> bearer... What kind of mother was Aalmon's mother to give<br>
> birth to two such dissimilar creatures and who could be the<br>> father of such bastards? Who then but the Devil himself?<br>> Then his imagination metamorphosed the hungry worm into a<br>
> fearful insect with the idea that the<br>> perverse moon-illuminated could have faked leaving the<br>> Fellowship, possibly just to come back to the seshnelan court<br>> and to lure his wife further away. The words in the book<br>
> described the moral strength of Marianne against the magical<br>> temptation of the revealed seseinite, so Azhur tried to calm<br>> down but he couldn't help to feel anxiety toward the tin jewel<br>
> he had received from the arrolian rider. Would the jewel<br>> glitter under the stars tonight? And if it will, what would it<br>> really mean? If flawed in some way, should he abandon this<br>
> magical and only mean to communicate his love to his wife? But<br>> Aalmon hadn't been always bad in the past, could his gift<br>> being a sincere untainted gift? Azhur needed the link with the<br>
> woman he loved so much and the nocturnal, symbolic and chaste<br>> rendezvous it permitted.<br>> At day, Azhur took refuge in melancholic musing on the few<br>> innocent and happy times he had with Marianne but at night,<br>
> doubts were ravaging Azhur's need for sleep. To deceive his<br>> fears and occupy his nights, Azhur studied the Abiding Book<br>> more and more, especially when Riku went sleeping himself. He<br>
> first checked all the details about the Godlearner, trying to<br>> build a clear opinion on the trust he could have for the<br>> strange sorcerer of the past. Was the man dangerous for the<br>
> Quest or a real help as indicated by the Luatha? He then read<br>> about the spiritual erring of his own faith, looking with<br>> great interest if the book was suggesting some excuse,<br>
> explanation or even possible way to mend his situation. Should<br>> he use the Abiding Book instead of his own now broken<br>> religious code? His unwanted heroquested skepticism suggested<br>
> him that no text, even sacred, should ever replace a personal<br>> conscience and that during history a lot of crimes were made<br>> because<br>> of doctrinal blindness… but his ever doubting mind answered<br>
> him that refusing to follow strictly such evidence of the One<br>> God's will would be probably one of the most acute sin ever<br>> possible.<br>> Exhausted, but driven by the importance of the holy tome,<br>
> Azhur finally turned on more technical teachings and looked<br>> for the possible spells, rituals and prayers. This book was<br>> the primal source of all the modern holy books. Could some<br>
> teachings have been deeply censored and expurgated by some<br>> religious authorities during the centuries? He tried some<br>> comparisons with the sacred text of good king Siglat. 'First<br>
> Truth' was the New Hrestoli Idealistic Church's sacred book,<br>> how both books were treating fundamental questions like<br>> definition of Sin, place of Joy and Solace and caste mobility?<br>
> Probably one life wouldn't be enough to study all the<br>> implications of such works, so at last, a quite funny question<br>> came to his mind as if some weird influence from Saint Talor<br>
> the Laughter was trying with a joke to help him to keep in<br>> mental sanity. Will the Abiding Book continue to write the<br>> story of the Fellowship? Then how will the book comment their<br>
> next moves? Will they be able to read their own actions<br>> commented? Was it instantaneous, like one person may gaze into<br>> a mirror and see himself acting in response? How will the book<br>
> speak about its own discovery and about itself?<br>><br>> Looking haunted, Azhur wasn't very attentive to Eurynome when<br>> she described the situation in the Dragon Pass. He felt some<br>
> compassion for the famished barbarian lands of the Storm (as<br>> some of his friends were supporters of the place) and a low<br>> hostility against the Moon Empire (probably nourished by his<br>
> anger against Aalmon the Arrolian). But his mind was more<br>> sharp when the question of the Abiding Book's destination came<br>> out. For him, because the book was sacred for all the western<br>
> faiths, it should go back to the West, but before, and because<br>> of the work in-progress related to their quest, it should<br>> remains within the Fellowship. Visibly, Azhur wasn't able to<br>
> consider that this discovery could be something else than a<br>> positive and encouraging sign from the Invisible God.<br>> Finally when the council of Esrolia showed interest for his<br>
> presence, Azhur shook his melancholic mood and reminded<br>> himself "Duty, Chivalry and Equality is my credo! I should<br>> represent better the peoples who put their hopes in me. This<br>
> land is fertile and rich, who knows which role the Invisible<br>> God will deserve to these pagans in the future? Let's show<br>> them that the West is more than Ehilm's last resting place…<br>
> and perhaps they will tell us something about Ursula, the<br>> Babeester Gor priestess who beared Talor's axe during Arkat's<br>> time..."<br>> [OOC]<br>> Lev,<br>
> - Any answer to Azhur's questions is welcomed... even one<br>> single tiny clue! :-)<br>> - Do you thing that reading the 'Abiding Book v1.0' could<br>> justify to augment the "Questing" Azhur's psychological<br>
> trait plus Worship and/or Venerate God?<br>> Loran<br>><br>><br>> ----- Message d'origine ----<br>> De : Lev Lafayette <<a href="mailto:lev@mimesisrpg.com">lev@mimesisrpg.com</a>><br>
> À : HeroQuest Glorantha <<a href="mailto:ignorance@mimesisrpg.com">ignorance@mimesisrpg.com</a>><br>><br>> Envoyé le : Dimanche, 6 Juillet 2008, 16h44mn 16s<br>> Objet : [HQ Ignorance] Scene 68: The Abiding Book, Nochet and<br>
> The Dead God<br>><br>><br>> nota bene: Just returned from Gencon Oz! More on that<br>> latter...<br>> Meanwhile, something I composed whilst at the con..<br>><br>><br>
><br>> Scene 68: The Abiding Book, Nochet and The Dead God<br>><br>><br>><br>> Over the next week, the Acindina makes good speed heading<br>> towards<br>> Nochet, the only metropolis in densely populated Esrolia. The<br>
> Fellowship<br>> chooses a course of open sea in a nor'easterly direction from<br>> the<br>> Mournea isles and is only slowed when approaching the famous<br>> Kethaela<br>
> Bay of the Holy Country when all of the sudden - in indeed<br>> measurable to<br>> a metre - the strong so'westerly wind blowing towards the<br>> Dragon Pass<br>> region comes to a sudden and complete stop, whereupon Kalen<br>
> shaking his<br>> head, went below deck to command the engineer to release the<br>> Elementals.<br>><br>> During this previous week the Godlearner Riku was below deck,<br>> feverishly<br>
> scanning the Abiding Book. As a great treasure, lost for<br>> hundreds of<br>> years, Eurynome also diplayed a great deal of interest and<br>> some full and<br>> frank discussions broke out concerning the book's fate, for<br>
> Eurynome was<br>> of the opinion that it should be handed to her patron<br>> Nauticles the<br>> Lhankor Mhy priest in Nochet. Also interested was King Azhur,<br>> for the<br>
> book was indeed holy to all pious worshippers of the Invisible<br>> God,<br>> Malkion.<br>><br>> To all three the story is well known. One thousand years ago<br>> the various<br>
> Malkioni faiths were fragmented in various and sometimes<br>> contradictory<br>> sects which even led to bloody in-fighting during the Second<br>> Erandinthanos Conference. One heresy, that of the Priest<br>
> Serozos claimed<br>> a revelation through an spirit entity called Makan, an<br>> expression of the<br>> One True God which argued for worshippers to practise<br>> Veneration to God<br>
> via Priests as intermediates. Despite interrogration by the<br>> Dolphin<br>> Guild we was brought before the Conference to explain himself.<br>><br>> Suddenly a hand, quill and book of indestructible binding and<br>
> paper<br>> appeared from nowhere. A disembodied voice commanded 'Write',<br>> and the<br>> hand did so, expressing how worshippers of the invisible God<br>> were to<br>
> live, how they should worship, what was True and what was<br>> Illusion and<br>> how heresies could be reconciled. For a thousand years it has<br>> been the<br>> most holy of texts for all who follow the Invisible God.<br>
><br>> Reprinted many times, all these doctrines are well known<br>> throughout<br>> western Genertala. Yet what has surprised the Fellowship the<br>> most, and<br>> has held them in greatest awe is the appearance of a new book,<br>
> as yet<br>> unfinished. Entitled "The Hero Wars" it recounts the<br>> adventures of the<br>> Fellowship from the very day that a brave shepherd discovered<br>> fragments<br>
> of Kyrmon's Scroll to the most recent encounters. More so, it<br>> records<br>> what is seen and unseen; Azhur discovers the depth of Aalmon's<br>> madness<br>> and wickedness from the eve prior to his wedding and Eurynome<br>
> discovers<br>> that the pirates of Smelch are actually in the employ of the<br>> Free City<br>> of Khorst.<br>><br>> Taking almost two days, at a pace of a slow moving ferry (for<br>
> the<br>> Dwarves wish not to exhaust the Elementals), the Acindina<br>> makes it<br>> slowly through the Bay. There are very few ship in what is a<br>> normally<br>
> teeming region and those that do exist are either powered by<br>> oars or by<br>> magical means such as this Seshnelan craft. Most disturbing is<br>> the<br>> absolute lack of wind - not even the faintest breeze. Even<br>
> breathing,<br>> although necessary, feel peculiar. Passing through the fabled<br>> City of<br>> Wonders one is struck by the silence and inaccessibility of<br>> the place.<br>
> Once teeming with its golden dome, the exterior is now like<br>> tarnished<br>> bronze from a by-gone era.<br>><br>> Eurynome explains some of the recent events in Dragon Pass<br>
> that have led<br>> to this unusual state of affairs. Over the past thirty years<br>> the Lunars<br>> have invaded steadily from the north, first taking the<br>> Heortling Kingdom<br>
> of Sartar and then the Holy Country. The Pharoah died suddenly<br>> some<br>> eight years ago and no replacement was found, leaving the Holy<br>> County<br>> vulnerable. A mercenary leader from the west appeared and took<br>
> some of<br>> the old Satarite lands; named Sir Richard the Tigerhearted, he<br>> too was<br>> eventually driven away by the ever-expanding Lunar Empire.<br>> From<br>
> Eurynome's description he bears a remarkable resemblance to a<br>> certain<br>> mercenary captain encountered in the Battle for Segurane by<br>> certain<br>> members of the Fellowship.<br>
><br>> Two years prior, the last surving Satarite stronghold,<br>> Whitewall, fell<br>> to Lunar troops although King Brian is still at large. With<br>> the last<br>> surving temple to Orlanth, most senior of the Gods of the Air,<br>
> in Lunar<br>> hands the very winds themselves stopped and have remained so<br>> for two<br>> years. The Lunars openly proclaimed that the God himself was<br>> captured<br>
> and over time would acknowledge his subservience to both the<br>> Sun and the<br>> Moon and may even be released once more.<br>><br>> The Acindina chugs its way in Nochet harbour, a massive city<br>
> of some one<br>> hundred thousand people, most important of Esrolia and seat of<br>> their<br>> matriarchial government. A number of men assist the docking of<br>> the ship<br>
> whilst women in authoritive regalia approach Eurynome for a<br>> report on<br>> the condition of the ship. When it is remarked that a foreign<br>> King is<br>> aboard, the women show deferential respect and mention that<br>
> the Council<br>> will be informed of his presence. Karala gives her fair well's<br>> to Knarl<br>> who, without much ado, leaves the boat to head inland to his<br>> people.<br>
><br>> Talor's Axe feels particularly heavy at this moment with the<br>> realisation<br>> that the prophecy of her relationship to the fate of the<br>> Telmori has<br>> grown even more.<br>
><br>><br>><br>> In the meanwhile, Eurynome takes the Fellowship to the<br>> Lhankhor Mhy<br>> temple, where she has rooms along with her mentor Nauticles<br>> one of the<br>
> few men in Nochet with any semblance of position or authority<br>> (and even<br>> that is most nominal). The elderly scholar offers drinks to<br>> all and<br>> seeks reports on the journey, hanging off every word that is<br>
> spoken. He<br>> is particularly fascinated by the presence of both the<br>> Dragonewt and, of<br>> course, the God Learner for the former are most rare in any<br>> human city<br>
> and the latter were believed to be an extinct people.<br>><br>> It was the ever-empathic Jareena - and the ever sensitive<br>> Icthya (albeit<br>> for different reasons) - who noticed that the people of the<br>
> city bore<br>> many of the signs of a very modest diet. There was no<br>> indication of<br>> starvation, but nobody could be considered of generous girth<br>> by any<br>
> stretch of the imagination. Inquiring of this state of<br>> affairs,<br>> Nauticles sighs. "It is the capture of Orlanth. With the winds<br>> dying,<br>> the temperatures have become more extreme in heat and in cold.<br>
> Crops<br>> have failed - not so badly here is Esrolia I will readily<br>> admit - but<br>> certainly in Heortland, Sartar, the Grazelands and parts of<br>> southern<br>
> Tarsh. The winters have been most terrible there, 1621, 1622..<br>> thousands<br>> starved. Gradually some are beginning to make adjustments of<br>> course, but<br>> nevertheless life is terribly tough for the Heortlings and<br>
> Satarites. If<br>> of course, the Orlanthi submitted this would change.. But I<br>> don't think<br>> that would happen. *We* Orlanthi value our independence a<br>> great deal,<br>
> and have always sworn we will never submit to the Lunar<br>> conquest. There<br>> is, of course, rumours of an Iron Ring of rebels leaders who<br>> seek to<br>> liberate free the Storm God..."<br>
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