Be careful what you pray for or about
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Be careful what you pray for or about
In a recent game Set in Bizantium where the player of our Bizantium Marine of the Valgorian Guard is in the church and praying to Algor and bemoaning our inept king and in the process asking Algor why he can't fix the king or let him inherit the throne and be the High Father of the church of Algor. This last for about 2 minutes when the character again asks Algor why cant he fix the King a second time and suddenly the GM stands up points to the player and says "Your the woman for the job!" in a deep voice. Needless to say the PC had been male up to that point. The player pantomimes checking his body and confirms that the PC is now female and then says "The king is behind me isn't he?" while looking back.
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
Well, if I'm reading this right, the question is "Why can't you, Algor, either 'fix' the king (whatever that means) or allow me, Valgorian Guardsman, inherit the throne and be the High Father of the Church of Algor". Algor's response is to make the character a woman. That doesn't make any sense at all.
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"If he made the character the Kings's baby son, then killed all of the other heirs, maybe it'd make sense."
Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
No the King is also the High Father of the church of Algor. Now Algor is the sea God and the King is afraid of water as well as being an inept King. Who would rather throw a party than rule his kingdom. Algor takes it that the marine is criticizing him. So he makes the character a woman and that is her job to straighten out the King.
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
Veknironth wrote:Well, if I'm reading this right, the question is "Why can't you, Algor, either 'fix' the king (whatever that means) or allow me, Valgorian Guardsman, inherit the throne and be the High Father of the Church of Algor". Algor's response is to make the character a woman. That doesn't make any sense at all.
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"If he made the character the Kings's baby son, then killed all of the other heirs, maybe it'd make sense."
The old saying goes... 'Behind any great man stands a great woman.'
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
Perhaps with some worshippers thinking of Algor as female, he is open to swapping genders himself and thinks his worshippers should be to?
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
smkeyes wrote:In a recent game Set in Bizantium where the player of our Bizantium Marine of the Valgorian Guard is in the church and praying to Algor and bemoaning our inept king and in the process asking Algor why he can't fix the king or let him inherit the throne and be the High Father of the church of Algor. This last for about 2 minutes when the character again asks Algor why cant he fix the King a second time and suddenly the GM stands up points to the player and says "Your the woman for the job!" in a deep voice. Needless to say the PC had been male up to that point. The player pantomimes checking his body and confirms that the PC is now female and then says "The king is behind me isn't he?" while looking back.
Very amusing. I'm sure King Raedean IV will be helpless in his (her) arms.-
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Re: Be careful what you pray for or about
Well, there might be a writing error here or just a misunderstanding. I though the statement:
was the PC asking Algor why Algor can't fix the king, etc. Is it supposed to mean that the PC wanted to know why he, the PC, can't fix the king? If that's the case then you just have a very simple, archaic gender role response to the request. It's rather difficult to believe that the king, who is presumably not hurting for female companionship, is going to be so infatuated with the now female PC that he will heed her counsel and improve. It's quite ludicrous and I can't imagine why Algor would do it. I guess he just likes to listen to the very real concerns of a devout follower and to respond by forcing an unwanted sex change.
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"I didn't know Algor was a 13-year old boy!"
and in the process asking Algor why he can't fix the king or let him inherit the throne and be the High Father of the church of Algor
was the PC asking Algor why Algor can't fix the king, etc. Is it supposed to mean that the PC wanted to know why he, the PC, can't fix the king? If that's the case then you just have a very simple, archaic gender role response to the request. It's rather difficult to believe that the king, who is presumably not hurting for female companionship, is going to be so infatuated with the now female PC that he will heed her counsel and improve. It's quite ludicrous and I can't imagine why Algor would do it. I guess he just likes to listen to the very real concerns of a devout follower and to respond by forcing an unwanted sex change.
-Vek
"I didn't know Algor was a 13-year old boy!"