... There are Andrin lawspeakers? --Peter Metcalfe...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:48 pm
... Or Hamlet, or Titus, or Othello... ... A-heh. Of course. With all the scenario ideas flying around, we'd have almost enough information for a...
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Tim Ellis
tim@...
Jan 3, 2001 4:22 pm
... No, That's Macbeth. in R&J it just *most* people that die, the parents have to survive to feel sorry about it... ... Of course! If I wanted to keep it...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:58 pm
... Thanks for the full, CORRECTED quote! I was trying to re-order it as a gift for a friend. Its great book for legal shennanigans and clan/family oriented...
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:55 pm
... though. Tough ... much ... Well I was assuming that you draw on your clan/bloodlines wealth to pay, and that your Wealth rating represented yuor ability to...
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Graham Robinson
gjr@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:37 pm
... <snip values> This makes paying weregild a bit easy. You have a roughly 50-50 chance of affording the weregild for someone of the same social standing, and...
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:29 pm
... lot ... mentioned in ... Bloodtaking and Peacemaking : Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland By: William Ian Miller Ah, that is where I read it. Thanks...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:18 pm
... These ended up getting harmonized with things like 'um, how many cows would a bloodline _have_ to survive or prosper? And how many cows/bloodlines would a...
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:17 pm
... relative ... Really an hw-rules issue but off the top of my head, one way to handle weregild in abstract HW terms would be using Wealth. In order to pay...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:14 pm
... Yes. So, what happens to folks who have missapplied worship? Do they get a misapplied afterlife? If so... ewww. (insert Where's St. Ehlmal skit here) Jeff...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:12 pm
... In Bloodletting and Peacemaking (by Ian Millar, I think) there's a lot of fascinating legal proceedures. The one you describe is mentioned in rather more...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:09 pm
... Such little condradictions in Heortling law are what keep the Andrin lawspeakers busy. I'd say you marry outside your bloodline as a matter of course...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:02 pm
... Might make something very useful for the Imperial Handbook's accmpanying scenario book. Or an intro scenario seed... But it could also be done from the...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 3:00 pm
... Though I seem to recall that it was often also done for ritual purposes -- Garhound Condest being a decent example. Or, better, Orlanth and Ernalda's...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:52 pm
Anyone play Hero Wars in the Las Vegas area? There's also a 'finder' on Wesley's very useful Hero Wars site: http://www.bvcompuworks.com/wesley/ Jeff...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:43 pm
... Romeo And Juliet scenarios are fine -- but only if everyone dies! ... Marriage Contest! Feast. Feats. Suitable dowries (not small but not large). You'd...
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KYER, JEFFREY
jeff.kyer@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:38 pm
... I was suggesting a _fraction_ of the Weregeld as that amount is an indication of that person's importance to society. And a dowry should be about...
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Thom Baguley
t.s.baguley@...
Jan 3, 2001 2:07 pm
... However, in most clans there will be people falling over themselves to help you marry. The chief will probably gift or lend you half. Many clans may well...
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Thom Baguley
t.s.baguley@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:56 pm
... IMO a ghost is the magical essence of a person somehow trapped on the mundane plane. This can't happen to a theist initiate in good standing except in very...
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John Hughes
nysalor@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:27 am
CELTIC ANALOGUES Ian, thanks for those insights and elaborations regarding temporary marriages. Nothing is ever simple. :) EXOGAMY / REPORT ON THE ORLANTHI ......
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John Hughes
nysalor@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:09 am
... To be honest I'm still not comfortable in my own thinking with the relative costs and values. When I wrote up some law codes for Thunder Rebels, I tried to...
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John Hughes
nysalor@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:09 am
... I love this insight! Bring on the herds! ... If, as David and Jeff have suggested, bridewealth is tied to in some ratio to weregild, costs will be...
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Fabian Kuechler
fabian.kuechler@...
Jan 3, 2001 1:31 am
;-) Well hell - we have webproblems! Thanx for all letting me know. Here are the links for the Tentacle 2001 site! What is going on? ...
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Roderick and Ellen Ro...
rjremr@...
Jan 2, 2001 7:17 pm
... And what happens to outlaws? they get beat up - in this case by Humakti Ghostbusters... No more Bright Place for *you*, mister Yelmie! As has been bruited...
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@...
Jan 2, 2001 10:42 am
Slightly OT, but Icelanid saga's have exorcism's handled as legal cases. The lawspeaker takes the ghost to court for 'squatting' and the ghosts upon...
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@...
Jan 2, 2001 9:21 am
... if your ... Having myself been a supporter of 'bloodlines are the basic social unit' I have to tell you that Greg clarified the position on this in a...
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Olli Kantola
nysalor@...
Jan 2, 2001 7:38 am
... Thats for the lawspeakers to argue. I bet that this argument happens once in a decade for most clans. Olli Kantola...
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Fabian Kuechler
fabian.kuechler@...
Jan 2, 2001 3:19 am
TENTACLES NEWS POST Volume 2, Nummer 1, 1. January 2001 ~~ S L U R P A g a i n F o l k s ! ~~ The Countdown is running for Tentacles 2001 - the international...
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Peter Metcalfe
metcalph@...
Jan 2, 2001 2:56 am
Jane Williams: I keep seeing this "marriage outside the clan" thing, and feeling ... See also p254 under Marriage Issues: "Clans are exogamous and the wives...
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Jane Williams
jane@...
Jan 1, 2001 11:06 pm
Xmas being over, I can start to catch up with various Digests & things.... ... I keep seeing this "marriage outside the clan" thing, and feeling puzzled, and...
