Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

From AsenRG:
Right, and that's exactly why I said the parallels with organised religions,and with some "schools", are strong.

Some observers of the situation have also described it as "Stalinist". I'm just trying to avoid it all...

Also, what makes you think I haven't done my research? But enough of that topic. If the best this is going to achieve is raise your blood pressure, what is the point? Better to show an example, which is what TStPT is doing!

Huh? I was speaking rhetorically; I did not mean you personally, and I am sorry of you thought that I was.

My players managed to avoid my trap corridors so far, but right now are on their way to the most heavily trapped part of the area, with dropping roofs, false doors and rooms turning around their axis, so I'm taking notes!

Very cool! Phil was very find of rotating rooms - he even had an entire section of the Jakalla underworld that would rotate randomly, which really confused us - for several years, actually!

Originally Posted by Bren

I'd guess they look like this only bigger.

Don't let Phil see this; he'll be all over it...

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

And this would probably be a ship of the ancients. Maybe something we could find on the Plain of Towers?

Shemek

Could be - needs more Art Deco Streamline Moderne. See also the 1939 World's Fair, which is what Phil held that the future would look like.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Or maybe this one, with out the wires of course.

Shemek

Better, better...

Phil's smaller in-system ships tended to be simple spheres, ala H. Beam Piper's "Space Viking". Not a lot of 'techno' stuff hanging out; Phil like his stuff clean and smooth, with a lot of bare metal finishes.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

Ok, last one. These would probably make some good Silver Suits. Gotta love 1930's and 1940's Sci-Fi. I use this kind of stuff in my games when ever I can. Go Flash!


Shemek

I actually have three of these guys - they were issued as little toys, presumably as robots of some sort. They make very good Ru'un...

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

It is no accident that this is literally my only involvement with Tekumel. I look upon it as spending a quiet weekend at Chrine's summer villa and reminiscing about old campaigns... as Barbara Ninde Byfield said in the Book of Weird, "their memories grow vivid, and their eyes grow dim."

Fortunately, I am not my Legion's official historian.

Agreed. I have very nice plumbing, too, courtesy of the Tinaliya.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Don't forget that about half the sphere is machinery, and if the damn things have toilets we never figured them out.

You know, I don't recall ever seeing anything that even vaguely resembled a toilet in any tubeway car, but then I don't think we ever asked...

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Jeez. I was just trying to be a bit lighthearted, not open old wounds. Sorry.

Actually, the only thing wrong with this year's GaryCon for me was that I was overbooked. Six events, three running and three playing, is too much.

Actually, seven. Saturday night Dave Wesley begged me to come into his Braunstein game.

Yes, I did, and yes, I will be writing it up, and yes, I believe you will be amused.

Not your fault. It's not an old wound, it's a running, festering open one. I wasted the better part of a year of my life and the better part of a grand trying to do this event, and it all pretty much was a waste. I've had quite a few groups / factions / cliques come through the basement over the past five years, just chock full of how they are my 'special friends' and 'biggest fans', and all puffed up with grand plans for their businesses. It seems, though, that the prerequisite for their success is for them to get control of what's in my head and in my collections; I've had to fight off several 'hostile takeovers', and it's gotten old.

Love to hear how the game went, though!!!

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Congratulations!!! Also thank you for the glimpse into your extraordinary archives!!!
Very nice.

H:0)

Thnak you, and you're very welcome. I have a basement full of this kind of thing...

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

From AsenRG:
Also, what makes you think I haven't done my research? But enough of that topic. If the best this is going to achieve is raise your blood pressure, what is the point? Better to show an example, which is what TStPT is doing!

Huh? I was speaking rhetorically; I did not mean you personally, and I am sorry of you thought that I was.

No, Uncle, I didn't think you think that. I was just trying to make my point in a more elaborate manner than usual. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

Very cool! Phil was very find of rotating rooms - he even had an entire section of the Jakalla underworld that would rotate randomly, which really confused us - for several years, actually!

It's quite possibly the same inspiration source. I was thinking of the ending of Gods of Mars!

Would any of the inimical races have stasis fields?