Questioning chirine ba kal

**Shemek hiTankolel** · 08-21-2016, 09:36 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal;914612:D

I had a 3LT who used "Run Away!" as a command to the troops...

I used to have an SSM that would shout at the top of his voice "what the fuck are you doing you horrible little man!", and threaten to "fornicate with your skull" whenever you messed up.

Shemek.

**Gronan of Simmerya** · 08-21-2016, 09:45 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I stand corrected. Maybe this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSqHfAoE6q0

How about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

**Hrugga** · 08-21-2016, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

How about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

Excellent!!! The Lord of the Lash has made Tekumel even more inaccessible todayyy...!!!

H;0)

**nDervish** · 08-22-2016, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

How about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXQJS3Yv0Y

Wonderful! Yet another dim childhood memory moves from "was that real or did I just imagine it?" to "nope, I'm not the only one who remembers it".

**Baron Opal** · 08-22-2016, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

I don't think it has even that much value, at this point. The last two publishers who were trying to negotiate for the use of the IP were each offering less then $5,000 for all the rights, and that was some years ago. The very last offer that I saw on paper was for $2,000 for all rights, for a term of something like five years.

The more I read about this, the more my inner Loki is roused.

If I ever had more money than I knew what to do with, I would scan all of the professor's documents and then release them into the wild. Mrs. Barker would find a small box in her mailbox with $10k in cash and a note saying something like "Honorarium for the Honored Explorer".

(Of course, only with your kind blessing, Chirine.)

**Hrugga** · 08-23-2016, 12:08 AM

Uncle,

Any Kuni-Birds that you know of on Tekumel that are similar to the Myna bird?

Thanks,

H:0)

**chirine ba kal** · 08-23-2016, 05:40 AM

Originally Posted by Baron Opal

The more I read about this, the more my inner Loki is roused.

If I ever had more money than I knew what to do with, I would scan all of the professor's documents and then release them into the wild. Mrs. Barker would find a small box in her mailbox with $10k in cash and a note saying something like "Honorarium for the Honored Explorer".

(Of course, only with your kind blessing, Chirine.)

The scanning part is already done; everything that Phil ever did for Tekumel exists in digital format, courtesy of my Missus who did all the work in the summer of 2011 and 2012. We have everything from the marginal doodles in Phil's college notebooks to the unfinished seventh novel, with everything in between. We did this as part of my work as archivist, due to the mold and mildew problem present in a lot of the documents. There's over 75 gigabytes of data, at the moment; we have six copies of the data, in various locations, for redundancy.

What is done with the archive is not my issue; I am an archivist, nothing more or less, which is what I set out to do in the summer of 1976 when I first started working for Phil as an unpaid 'private secretary'. Sure, I'd like to see it available for people to use; Phil was always ready to talk to people about his creation.

**chirine ba kal** · 08-23-2016, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Uncle,

Any Kuni-Birds that you know of on Tekumel that are similar to the Myna bird?

Thanks,

H:0)

Yes; the Kuni are hawk-like predators, and there are the equivalent of Myna birds - as well as all sorts of exotic avians - that are kept as pets. There's a lot of flora and fauna that exist like this, but never got mentioned in the rules as they are simply 'the background' and don't usually interact with PCs in the usual course of games.

We found out about them after we stopped doing 'dungeon crawls', which were a major feature of the early years in Phil's campaign. Once we got out out of the 'murderhobo' mindset and into the cultures, a lot of stuff like this started to emerge. We still 'adventured', of course, but they were a different kind of adventure.

**Hrugga** · 08-23-2016, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

Yes; the Kuni are hawk-like predators, and there are the equivalent of Myna birds - as well as all sorts of exotic avians - that are kept as pets. There's a lot of flora and fauna that exist like this, but never got mentioned in the rules as they are simply 'the background' and don't usually interact with PCs in the usual course of games.

We found out about them after we stopped doing 'dungeon crawls', which were a major feature of the early years in Phil's campaign. Once we got out out of the 'murderhobo' mindset and into the cultures, a lot of stuff like this started to emerge. We still 'adventured', of course, but they were a different kind of adventure.

Thank you Uncle. Any idea what a myna type bird would be called?

Thanks,

H:0)

**Greentongue** · 08-23-2016, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Any idea what a myna type bird would be called?

Whatever you want. It's your world version.
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