Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by Hrugga

GloriousG,

Can you please elaborate a bit...!?!? I think we will enjoy this...Thanks.

H :0)

While working for AGI, I managed one of the few times in my life to surprise Dave. We were playtesting Dave’s rewrite of “City of the Gods” for Blackmoor, and I’d been asked to join in as a “high level evil wizard.” I agreed and dubbed my character “Necross the (Ha Ha Ha!) Mad,” after the character in Dave Sim’s popular “Cerebus the Aardvark” comic. And yes, his name was not “Necross” or “Necross the Mad,” it was “Necross the (Ha Ha Ha!) Mad.”
I really don’t remember the adventure except for one moment. There was a “metal wall” with a lever sticking out of it. We had found trap after trap in this place; buttons that activated automated defenses, switches that powered up security robots, etc. Dave said, “I think Necross should pull the lever.”
“No way, short, grey, furry one!” I said, in keeping with the Cerebus theme. (Dave’s character was neither short, grey, nor furry, and neither was Dave.)
“Why not?” said Dave, puzzled.
“Because I am Necross the (Ha Ha Ha!) Mad, not Necross the (Ha Ha Ha!) STUPID!”
It was ten minutes before the referee, Steve Lortz, could breathe again.

Originally Posted by SineNomine

Oh, it's still there- the URL just seems to have gotten clipped. The sample gazetteer is at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4q...ew?usp=sharing

Dear Karakan, that turned into a train wreck.

Complete with somebody insisting that Tsolyani words HAD to be used.

Amusingly, I never ONCE heard Phil actually use the word "kuruthuni". I guess we'll have to have a seance to tell the old coot he was playing his own game wrong.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Dear Karakan, that turned into a train wreck.

Complete with somebody insisting that Tsolyani words HAD to be used.

Amusingly, I never ONCE heard Phil actually use the word "kuruthuni". I guess we'll have to have a seance to tell the old coot he was playing his own game wrong.

Yeah, even I found the linguistic insistence weird. And I'm the guy that finds S&G an entertaining reading, and reads encyclopaedia entries for campaign inspiration.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

That's an interesting forum over there. I was reading the thread yesterday. It was up to 26 or so pages. I looked this morning and it was back to 25 pages. Some of the posts I read vanished(maybe into a pocket universe)!?!? Weird. What I read didn't seem too out there. Oh well, so be it.

H :0)

They lost about 15 hours of posts.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Ahh, Cerebus!!! I've never read the comic. He seems like he would make a good "Demon" encounter in Bethorm after being summoned from the planes beyond.

More money to spend. My wife should be happy about that...Thanks.

H :0)

And I still have my miniature of him, too, so you can imagine who my players occasionally run into...

Originally Posted by Greentongue

When you first started playing, how often did the cultural differences, such a group before individual, impact play?

How did the Midwestern American expectation of "Being a Hero" clash with the Tsolyani expectations?

Was there a transition or did you get the difference from the very first?

Was "Party Loot" extended to include the Clan naturally or was there initial resistance?
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Well, let's see...

First, the major thing for most of us was the cultural difference between Midwestern America and the whole notion of a non-traditional, non-Western world setting. We'd never seen anything like it, really.

For us, I don't think we had 'being a hero' as one of our expectations; we hit the ground running, and it was more about simple survival most of the time. We worked into the social stuff over time, and got an education in putting the group ahead of individuals. I think that our 'party mind-set', where we all worked together as a team to survive and achieve our individual goals helped with this.

I think we saw the difference from the very first, at least in our group. And once we'd gotten that, it was sink or swim.

Hm. For us, 'party loot' always included 'inducements', 'tips', 'goodwill payments', 'gifts', and 'baksheesh' as a matter of course from the very beginning. We regarded it as part of the 'overhead'; payments to the clan were part of the cost of doing business for the group, so I guess we did thins from the beginning of when we played - for us, it was simply part of belonging to the society. No resistance that I remember.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Dear Karakan, that turned into a train wreck.

Complete with somebody insisting that Tsolyani words HAD to be used.

Amusingly, I never ONCE heard Phil actually use the word "kuruthuni". I guess we'll have to have a seance to tell the old coot he was playing his own game wrong.

Oh? What did I miss while I was at work on Friday? I did some replies when I got home after midnight, but I saw last night that they'd all vanished.

(Huh? Why do Tsolyani words have to be used in games? What am I missing?)

Originally Posted by Hrugga

That's an interesting forum over there. I was reading the thread yesterday. It was up to 26 or so pages. I looked this morning and it was back to 25 pages. Some of the posts I read vanished(maybe into a pocket universe)!?!? Weird. What I read didn't seem too out there. Oh well, so be it.

H :0)

Yeah, I did a few replies to people, and posted the bit where the High Priest got it for stealing from the temple in Hekellu. What amazed me was that people started to dissect the bit for some sort of deeper meaning.

Hm. I'm still digesting it all...