| From: | CyberKnight <r3evw@***.CC.UAKRON.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Harlequin, and other things... |
| Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 1994 04:42:23 EDT |
To quote Erik:
>] Please excuse my ignorance, but who exactly is Harlequin?? I only remember
>] one reference to him, and that was in First Edition. In that, he was just
>] some goob who botched a summoning and died. Wrong harlequin??
>] -Warlok
>]
> Thank you Warlok for the good laugh; I needed it! Let me thumb
Now Steve, you know as well as I do that there is a mage in the Blue Book named
Harlequin that gets himself geeked duning a summoning. That almost sounded
condesending... ( I know it wasn't, it was probably the Corona speaking... )
(control-l added for spoiler alert...)
>Harlequin:
> Both Elves are full-powered hermetic magicians and initiates of
>incredible rank (I thought Incredible rankings were left behind in Marvel
>Superheroes RPG :) ) ... Give the players the chance to roll as many dice
>as they wish in an effort to negate or counteract the spells. Let them come
>oh-so-close and fail. The master story demands it.
>
> Harlequin is chaos personified. His attitude, manner, philosophy,
>dress, and accent are subject to change at a moment's notice. He is quick-
>witted, but sometimes his wit depends on some obscure reference that
>possibly only three other people in the world understand. He is quick to
>anger, and equally quick to forgive... usually.
> The gamemaster should play Harlequin as a wild, almost elemental
>force. He is prone to rambling and raving on the most arcane subjects, but
>what he says is often fascinating and relevatory.
Actually, I heard another theory from a friend of mine that almost sounds
plausible, given what we have seen Harlequin and Ehran do. That possibility is
that bothe Harlequin and Ehran are Greater Form Free Spirits of incredible
force, who somehow survived since the last mana cycle. It would easily explain
the "Teleportation" that these charicters do at the end...
(Don't flame me if this is too far fetched. I never ran through the Harliquin
campaign, never got the campaign book, and only heard about it through the one
game I was in that _did_ run it before I joined in...)
P.S. - Masque and I send our sympathys on hearing Steph left. She's had a hell
of a time of it since I left, and we're still technically together (Hell, we're
_technically_ engaged...)
> God how I need a case of beer right now....
Sorry, won't be in till saturday, and I'll still have a few things I have to do
there in West Lafalot, Indiana, home of Undue Perversity...
> Da Miserable Minotaur
Shockwave Rider
a.k.a CyberKnight
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