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Subj: Victor Garland's Journey
Date: 97-03-18 21:11:03 EST From: ilium@juno.com (Stephen P Martin) To: Ethesis@aol.com VICTOR GARLEND'S JOURNEY Originally printed in The Wild Hunt 52 This is an archtypal journey heroquest. Often a character can fall into such a quest with no warning. It has been reenacted by Lhankor Mhy priests, and by Issaries priests who were going to settle down. Note, an example follows the quest outline and is necessary to making sense of the outline. I. WARNING/AWAKENING/SIGNPOST It was by a visit from his father's shade that Victor learned of the nature of his journey to come. Any thing of this type will fit this stage. II. PREPARATION Victor prepared for his journey by reviewing his cultic rituals, and by recieving blessings (woad) and acclamation. Ritual purification is performed at this stage. III. WARNING Victor was warned, obliquely, not to forget certain injunctions. The warning passed him by. A warning will always occur. The better the questor, the more subtle the warning (because the questor always fails to heed the warning). IV. JOURNEY Victor journied to a place he had not been before to overcome the guardian there and to learn certain secrets. The questor must go some place he has not been before. V. DRUNKENESS/SLEEP This parallels the warning. Victor was drugged and his intelligence dropped. He forgot certain protective rituals. It was here that he finally interpreted the warning, too late. This is the threshold of the quest: without it the questor has not entered the pattern. He will suffer a random loss of a skill or magic. VI. SOJOURN Here Victor spent time among strangers. Unknowingly he set the groundwork for his quest. The questor must learn a new skill to the 25% level at this stage. He will need to use it later. VII. PURIFICATION Upon learning the needed skills, Victor regained his lost memories and reenacted certain events. He remembered the protective rituals. The questor here regains his lost skills. VIII. FINDING THE WAY Upon strengthening himself, Victor used the skill he had gained to find the way to the barrier he had to overcome to succeed at the quest. IX. TRIUMPH Victor won. He faced an evil creature and slew it. X. RETURN Vitor returned home XI. EXAMPLE The following example describes Ptwv Harhah's enactment of this quest. Ptwv summoned an ancestral spirit (via the Daka Fal spell Summon Ancestor). From him he gained a description of an ancient bane of his family. He was blessed (asked) in the pursuit of slaying it. He then asked for and received a leave from his cult. He then travelled to the land of blue shadows where he had never been and got drunk. Upon his entry into Godtime he forgot all of his rune magic. He bested a spirit in spirit combat, fought off two wandering monsters (he was on both the Mundane and Mythic Levels at the same time -- see The Netweaver's Quest), and was finally found by ancestral spirits. In return for 2 pts of POW sacraficed, the spirits gave him a 1 pt Vision spell and taught him Punch to 25%. With the spell he was able to find a path. He then used the Rune Magic he had toward himself, drank woad, and fought with a chaos demon that had earlier slain twelve of his ancestors and consumed the spirits of all. The woad (along with a lead egg he had prepared years before) saved his life and his fist, and he slew the demon. By slaying the demon the ancestral spirits were freed. One became allied to him, and the others joined the list of known and friendly ancestors. Ptwv then returned to his home and cult and founded a new temple with his ancestor as a guardian spirit. ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- From ilium@juno.com Tue Mar 18 21:10:48 1997 Return-Path: ilium@juno.com Received: from x10.boston.juno.com (x10.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.25]) by emin11.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id VAA06945 for <Ethesis@aol.com>; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:10:46 -0500 Received: (from ilium@juno.com) by x10.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id VIV01568; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:07:56 EST To: Ethesis@aol.com Subject: Victor Garland's Journey Message-ID: <19970318.180835.2087.4.ilium@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 1.15 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-2,5-7,10-12,15-17,21-23,26-28,31-32,34-36,39-41, 44-46,48-59,63-64,69-70,79-80,82-83 From: ilium@juno.com (Stephen P Martin) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 21:07:56 EST
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