 June 24, 2013 - 1:05am | What is the relationship between the kurabunda and the quickdeath? the other 2 primitive races have integrated the quickdeath into their culture. The edestakai worship it as their god of justice and the Ul-mor use hunting and killing it as their "rite of manhood" The module says that the creatue can be found in all environments except mountains at the same time that the module says that the quickdeath has sharp claws for both killing and climbing. It aint climbing mountains so it mus be climing trees so these things must occassionaly go strolling into a kurabunda village. Thus the question, "What is the kurabunda's relationship to the quickdeath?" 1. They worship it 2. ultimate test of the hunter ie "rite of manhood" 3. bogey man that stalks the night, used to threated the young into behaving. 4.? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 June 24, 2013 - 3:49am | Maybe the Kurabanda stear clear of it. Myths around the quickdeath are also possible, not as a god to be worshipped, or even as a boogeyman, but as a pet of gods whom their heroes had to fight. They don't hunt the quickdeath, but use it for stories of adventure, an obstacle in the way of the hero, like Cerberus. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 June 27, 2013 - 3:29am | The Eorni genetically altered each race to intelligence and continue to guide the races. The Great Work. The Quickdeath is probably a creature introduced as a social experiment and as a way for the Eorni to prepare the races for Sathar attack monsters. We should think of other ways the Eorni have tried to influence the races. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 June 27, 2013 - 6:19am | IIRC the quickdeaths were Sathar constructs left after the invasion? |
June 27, 2013 - 6:50am | Ooh. The Kurubanda story of the Sathar was that they were the hellspont of the gods. Malign demons that came to subjugate the creation and the Kurubanda's heroes became legend in the fight against the Sathar demon hordes and their magic spears that shoot out rays of fire. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 June 28, 2013 - 4:21pm | IIRC the quickdeaths were Sathar constructs left after the invasion?
Yes. I pick option 3. The Sathar never ventured into the thick Bachanda forests, so they never encountered the Kurabanda. On rare occasions a Quickdeath would enter the forest and cause a panic among the Kurabanda tribes. Stories were told and over time and developed into bedtime stories to scare little children. |
June 29, 2013 - 3:41am | Small timeline problem. The Sathar attacked the Eorni and when they were devastated the Eorni uplifted the other races. So the Kurabanda could not have memories of the Sathar since they were not an intelligent race at that time. Still either way you go why could the Eorni not use the Quickdeath as a social experiment whether they created it or the Sathar left it? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
June 29, 2013 - 4:47am | Small timeline problem. The Sathar attacked the Eorni and when they were devastated the Eorni uplifted the other races. So the Kurabanda could not have memories of the Sathar since they were not an intelligent race at that time. Still either way you go why could the Eorni not use the Quickdeath as a social experiment whether they created it or the Sathar left it? I dont think they would. the eorni show a certain reastraint or rather a wait and observe philosophy about flies in the ointment: pirates showing up and pretending to be gods to the edestakai, the edestakai worshiping a quickdeath as a god of justice. I dont think the eorni would use an agent of the sathar as part of their social engineering. Since the sathar were responsible for the complete destruction of their society. It goes against the grain. In fact I think that while they are willing to play god and uplift dum animals to sapience that they are not willing to play god and social engineer too much with the races. The great mission with the primitives is to bring about preplacement species that may one day oppose the sathar when they are gone. Its a lofty dream that is perhaps impractical or impossible but then they're staring a gun in the barrel and awaiting their own death in a form of solitary confinement so you have to keep busy till the end actually comes so why not. One race opts to go the route of making the quickdeath the object of their manhood ceremonies while another opts to worship it neither of those strike me as the eorni playing social engineer but if they had they are the stupidest social engineers ever because their mission is replacement species and they set up two of them on a collission course to clash over the quickdeath? No too much in the eorni's seeming inaction on many fronts suggests that they are not actively doing social engineering- perhaps small scale stuff that is actually the result of the genetic engineering- genes that make the primitives social and gregarious and stuff like that. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 29, 2013 - 12:32pm | In fact I think that while they are willing to play god and uplift dum animals to sapience that they are not willing to play god and social engineer too much with the races. The great mission with the primitives is to bring about preplacement species that may one day oppose the sathar when they are gone. Its a lofty dream that is perhaps impractical or impossible but then they're staring a gun in the barrel and awaiting their own death in a form of solitary confinement so you have to keep busy till the end actually comes so why not. Completely agree. One race opts to go the route of making the quickdeath the object of their manhood ceremonies while another opts to worship it neither of those strike me as the eorni playing social engineer but if they had they are the stupidest social engineers ever because their mission is replacement species and they set up two of them on a collission course to clash over the quickdeath? No too much in the eorni's seeming inaction on many fronts suggests that they are not actively doing social engineering- perhaps small scale stuff that is actually the result of the genetic engineering- genes that make the primitives social and gregarious and stuff like that.
Devil's Advocate: Maybe they want the strongest society to survive? A little competition will make the surviving race stronger and better prepared for a fight with the Sathar. The Battle of True Warriors and the Great Game are excellent preparation for warfare. |
June 29, 2013 - 2:33pm | Good points, jedion and mother. Thanks for the history correction, traveller. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
