The Soothing Sound of Clicking Mandibles

[d(sqrt(-1))]

Aw geeze, Mark! You don't want baby Elmal to cry now, do you?

Jeff

Who is this Elmal of which you speak? Is he some sort of new-come God-Learner construct, designed to take away from the solar majesty of Yelmalio? Sounds a bit like...Gbaji...to me, stranger...

Hm, ok I give in. I actually did like GoG for RQ3, just because it gave some details for gods that otherwise never got a look in. If CoG1 is anything like that then it's well worth it. Besides I hope that you note I said "editing" not "writing" in my post...

cheers,

Mark

 

[Voriof]

Who is this Elmal of which you speak? Is he some sort of new-come God-Learner construct, designed to take away from the solar majesty of Yelmalio? Sounds a bit like...Gbaji...to me, stranger...

Yelmalio's the construct. Honest. Elmal and Sankandavu (who didn't make the cut) were the bad son/good sons of Yelm.

If CoG1 is anything like that then it's well worth it.

There's a lot of cults in both books that have never been discussed in offical publications or were never 'upgraded' from RQII. Off the top of my head, we have Barntar, Buserian, Carmanos, Erissa (okay, she's really Chalana Arroy's good, non-rebellious sister), several Ernalda cults, Heler, Kab Tolat Solf, several Orlanth cults (esp Dragonfriend and Dragonslayer), Shargash, Star Bear (thanks, Mark G!), Sun Dragon, Urvairinus, Vinga, a completely rewritten Yelm, Yigg, Yinkin, and a bunch of folks we already know and love/hate.

Hope this helps!

Jeff

 

[Exubae]

Yelmalio's the construct

Wasn't old Yelmalio constructed from Daysenorus (or something like that) and a multitude of other Suns by old Monrogh, when he went to find his true Son of the Sun. (Going to have to dig through my stuff... can't blasted remember any other details... might have been in king of Sartar)

 

[homerjsinnott]

Yelmalio's the construct

Wasn't old Yelmalio constructed from Daysenorus (or something like that) and a multitude of other Suns by old Monrogh, when he went to find his true Son of the Sun. (Going to have to dig through my stuff... can't blasted remember any other details... might have been in king of Sartar)

You can't trust KoS on Yelmalio for Yelms sake. It was written by/for Orlanthi!

Trust No-one, keep your long-spear handy. :wink: :lol:

 

[Rurik]

Yelmalio's the construct

Wasn't old Yelmalio constructed from Daysenorus (or something like that) and a multitude of other Suns by old Monrogh, when he went to find his true Son of the Sun. (Going to have to dig through my stuff... can't blasted remember any other details... might have been in king of Sartar)

You can't trust KoS on Yelmalio for Yelms sake. It was written by/for Orlanthi!

Trust No-one, keep your long-spear handy. :wink: :lol:

Really. What is all this blasphemous rubbish about being Yelmalio being a construct?

He is the son of Yelm, period. Anything else is just lies.

 

[homerjsinnott]

Wasn't old Yelmalio constructed from Daysenorus (or something like that) and a multitude of other Suns by old Monrogh, when he went to find his true Son of the Sun. (Going to have to dig through my stuff... can't blasted remember any other details... might have been in king of Sartar)

You can't trust KoS on Yelmalio for Yelms sake. It was written by/for Orlanthi!

Trust No-one, keep your long-spear handy. :wink: :lol:

Really. What is all this blasphemous rubbish about being Yelmalio being a construct?

He is the son of Yelm, period. Anything else is just lies.

Hmmmm. Your answer seems ok and you look like a Yelmalion, but your sig is very worrying. Will still have to keep a eye on you just in case you are some kind of imposter. Maybe a little test to start off with.

Here, kill this single trollkin.

 

[Rurik]

I know, I know, a Yelmalion with an Uz sig makes no sense. But it was a cool quote. And honestly, can you find a fun Yelmalion quote out there?

Errr, Trollkin? umm, yeah. Can you have me kill something a little less dangerous? Like a Great Troll or Cave Troll or something?

 

[ninthcouncil]

Hmmmm. Your answer seems ok and you look like a Yelmalion, but your sig is very worrying. Will still have to keep a eye on you just in case you are some kind of imposter. Maybe a little test to start off with.

Here, kill this single trollkin.

Won't prove much, since trolls have such a low opinion of trollkin anyway.

If he then eats the trollkin, though, that might tell you something.

 

[homerjsinnott]

I know, I know, a Yelmalion with an Uz sig makes no sense. But it was a cool quote. And honestly, can you find a fun Yelmalion quote out there?

Errr, Trollkin? umm, yeah. Can you have me kill something a little less dangerous? Like a Great Troll or Cave Troll or something?

I heard it was a group of trollkin you had problems with, maybe three? Or is it the steely, I mean stone, I mean Black look in its eye that brings it all streaming back?

Tell yourself he's just squinting...


P.S. All jokes told by Yelmalions are funny. The Lightpriest says so.


Q. What do you get if you cross an Orlanthi with a Lunar?

A. Sex, sex, sex, that all those people ever think about.


PPS Trolls can count? Thats news to me.

I thought it went:

ONE.

[Long pause]

...

[Even longer pause]

...

Me Hungry. Tummy not full.

 

[Coleoptra]

P.S. All jokes told by Yelmalions are funny. The Lightpriest says so.

Q: How many Yelmalios do you need to light a candle?

A: Two. One to light the candle, and one to hold his hand, cause it's dark!

Trif.

 

[Coleoptra]

The Widow's Tale Review

Just finished reading "The Widow's Tale" by Penelope Love. It's a 230 page novel about the struggle between lunars and orlanthi for the last piece of unoccupied Sartar before the fall of Whitewall.

The book got it all, lunars, orlanthi, broos and scorpionmen, storm bulls, eirithans, ernaldans, yelornans, unicorns, wyverns, tien worshippers and mostalis.

It manages to capture the different cultures and their view on the world, customs and how the use of magic is experienced.

The book is absolutely worth reading for anyone who plays in Glorantha, to get a real taste of the Gloranthan spirit. Highly recommended!

(I think you can get it from both warehouse 23 and tradetalk.de)

Trif.

 

[homerjsinnott]

P.S. All jokes told by Yelmalions are funny. The Lightpriest says so.

Q: How many Yelmalios do you need to light a candle?

A: Two. One to light the candle, and one to hold his hand, cause it's dark!

Trif.

I don't think that's funny, my Lightpriest said so.

 

[homerjsinnott]

How many trolls does it take to light a candle?


Who wants to waste candles when you have trolls to burn? Just throw another one on the bonfire.

 

[Coleoptra]

P.S. All jokes told by Yelmalions are funny. The Lightpriest says so.

Q: How many Yelmalios do you need to light a candle?

A: Two. One to light the candle, and one to hold his hand, cause it's dark!

Trif.

I don't think that's funny, my Lightpriest said so.

That's cause you're a treehugger!

Elfie, nancy-pancy, flower-power hippies.... Only good for toothpicks anyway!

Mmmm.... And Powzie!

Trif.

 

[Banned Beetle]

Click-click-click! 8)

Banned Beetle is back! Let in again in the hive on probation for good behaviour! No more need to use my brilliant disguise skill posing as Coleoptra or use the Conceal spell (aka the IP-scrambler) to get past the guards!


Hurray!

Trif.

 

[indrodar]

The Widow's Tale Review

When I first read it, I got a bit confused by the fact that sections of it seemed like I'd already read them earlier in the book. But of course the whole point of Gloranthan magic is you walk the same path as your god over and over again - first as a practice heroquest, then as a follower, then as the primary character, then on the God Plane (if you're a filthy meldek God Learner).

Don't know if that was her intent, but I liked it anyway...

 

[homerjsinnott]

I don't think that's funny, my Lightpriest said so.

That's cause you're a treehugger!

Elfie, nancy-pancy, flower-power hippies.... Only good for toothpicks anyway!

Mmmm.... And Powzie!

Trif.

Q. What do you get when you bury a troll?

A. Very happy.


Q. What do you get when you bury lots of trolls?

A. A start.

 

[Banned Beetle]

Q: Why should you always take two Yelmalians with you when you go fishing?
A: If you take one, he'll drink all your beer. If you take two, they won't touch a drop!
:lol:
Trilfe.

 

[homerjsinnott]

Q: Why should you always take two Yelmalians with you when you go fishing?
A: If you take one, he'll drink all your beer. If you take two, they won't touch a drop!
:lol:
Trilfe.

Q. Why should you never take two trolls fishing?

A. You, two trolls, nowhere to run and no witnesses?!!???


"'ee fell in and drowned, BURP!"

 

[weasel_fierce]

paraphrased from the Issaries website:

An Orlanthi goes into a blacksmith to buy a new sword, and asks him how much it is. The blacksmith says it will be 150 lunars.
The Orlanthi swears and curses. The smith asks him whats wrong. He replies "It'll take a long time to kill that many"