Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Well, the Ssu cities are underground, with equilateral triangular little pyramids over the entrance shafts. I think that if they were going to start a base in the area, they'd bring in a prefab 'shed' to shelter in while they started digging. They'd also prefer to use any existing holes in the ground, like caves or something, and if they found something that looked to be an entrance into a forgotten underworld or lost temple, they'd use that.

The shed would, based on an encounter we had early on out at Phil's, most likely be a geodesic dome, made of prefab panels. The panels might be wood or metal, or something else; we found a funny little dome out in the woods near Tu'umnra, which wasn't the usual Pe Choi extruded chitin (The Hlyss do the same thing) but was a geodesic dome made of the ceramic-metal alloy usually used by the ancients. It reeked of cinnamon, had the usual Ssu bits of parchment-like shed skin inside, and which convinced us to run away as fast as we could - with the notion of coming back later with a cohort or two of soldiers so we could grab the thing and live to tell about it. What was it? My guess, based on Phil's sense of humor, was that it was a military shelter kit of the Ancients that the Su had found someplace and were using.

He always played them as if they were as smart as we were; if we'd do something like this, then they certainly would.

Great game session, from the sound of it!

Aha, ok that sounds good, thank you for the details, I shall make good use of them.

Yes, it ran over three sessions, and we have some good characters, a hunter with a trained Kuni, who is massively in debt (the PC not the Kuni), a Ksarul priest addicted to hnequ and somewhat deaf due to a lab explosion who used all his starting cash to buy an 8 bearer palanquin (with a relief carrying team of another 8 bearers), because obviously appearing important makes you important, a warrior of Vimhula with hennaed red hair and a mystical outlook, another is a warrior of Karakan who seems to break swords regularly and an Aridani farmer follower of Avanthe who is the toughest of the lot!

Originally Posted by d(sqrt(-1))

a hunter with a trained Kuni, who is massively in debt (the PC not the Kuni), a Ksarul priest addicted to hnequ and somewhat deaf due to a lab explosion who used all his starting cash to buy an 8 bearer palanquin (with a relief carrying team of another 8 bearers), because obviously appearing important makes you important, a warrior of Vimhula with hennaed red hair and a mystical outlook, another is a warrior of Karakan who seems to break swords regularly and an Aridani farmer follower of Avanthe who is the toughest of the lot!

"You get a mixed bag in any convention burg."

Originally Posted by Greentongue

I have a Play by Post "Tekumel" game that I have done that with EPT.
This month will make one year of the game.
If I can do that in a format that drops players like flys, you should have no problem.
What's the worst that can happen?
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Originally Posted by Greentongue

I just realized that this thread started at about the same time as my current set of players.
Wow
This thread is over a year old and has 70,000+ views.

I guess there is still some interest in Tekumel.
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And to this, I can only nod and say "indeed"!

(In fact, I consider Tekumel-like settings and the approach exhibited by Chirine&Co crucial for PbP games, if you want to overcome the format's weakness "drops players like flies". But that goes outside the current topic of discussion, except insofar that, as you mentioned, "there's obviously some interest in Tekumel").

Originally Posted by AsenRG

And to this, I can only nod and say "indeed"!

(In fact, I consider Tekumel-like settings and the approach exhibited by Chirine&Co crucial for PbP games, if you want to overcome the format's weakness "drops players like flies". But that goes outside the current topic of discussion, except insofar that, as you mentioned, "there's obviously some interest in Tekumel").

I think that there is a lot more interest than we think, but the erroneously preconceived notions associated with it causes a lot of people to give Tekumel a pass.

Shemek.

Originally Posted by DavetheLost

This thread has hit 400 pages, and is just two posts shy of four THOUSAND. That speaks of some interest in Tekumel.

BTW I would love to lurk or play in a PbeM Tekumel game.

A lot of interest IMO.

Shemek.

Originally Posted by Shemek hiTankolel

I think that there is a lot more interest than we think, but the erroneously preconceived notions associated with it causes a lot of people to give Tekumel a pass.

Shemek.

That's my opinion as well.

Originally Posted by DavetheLost

This thread has hit 400 pages, and is just two posts shy of four THOUSAND. That speaks of some interest in Tekumel.

BTW I would love to lurk or play in a PbeM Tekumel game.

Greentongue is very accommodating to us lurkers, I assure you.

Also, we're now one post past four thousands.

Originally Posted by AsenRG

That's my opinion as well.



Greentongue is very accommodating to us lurkers, I assure you.

Also, we're now one post past four thousands.

He is, and we are.

Shemek.