Re: [HoE] Something About a Sword (potential Spoiler seperated from main text)

["Fuzyn9feet" <Fuzyn9feet@email.msn.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Dula <rdula@ezonline.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 9:34 PM
Subject: [HoE] Something About a Sword (potential Spoiler seperated from
main text)


>Hi:
>
>A few hours ago I turned in some of the cardboard crack known as Pokemon to
>a local game store, and I used some of the credit I received to get
>Something About a Sword.  I've two questions.  The first is that the
>Templar Eliot Ritter is depicted as having a home town, from which he
>patrols the surrounding area for trouble.  From everything I've read so far
>in HOE I got the impression Templars were supposed to wander the Wasted
>West, never staying in one place (except Boise) for very long.  Did anyone
>else have that opinion, or is it just me?
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Templar are people and so each has his own idea of how best to help. In my
game there are places that some Templar call home, but like Ritter they
mostly use it a base and cache stopping by from time to time to catch up on
his friends and a good (uninterrupted and safe) night's sleep.

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>Okay, the church Ritter resides in has become affected by the equivalent of
>the Blessed miracle Sanctify, due to the extreme faith the townsfolk have
>in Ritter.  What the #$@$ is up with this?  The setting of HOE is one in
>which the Reckoners now walk the earth, their evil perverting everything,
>yet the townsfolk are able to have such faith in Ritter that they can tap
>the ambient mystical energy of the Wasted West to duplicate the magic of
>the Blessed?


Faith (and the fact that a large group has it in a good amount) can do funny
things in the presence of a Supernatural threat (in most peoples mind at
least). Look to the Hunting Grounds. Faith (and/or Belief) has shaped it in
many ways, like the Net popping up.

>I'm not going to lie, part of the reason I'm mad is that I've written an
>adventure where one of the main characters is a Blessed in the Wasted West,
>and he has used the Sanctify miracle for an amazing effect (an effect I
>won't put here since I hope the adventure might someday make it to the
>Pinnacle webpage).  Now, it seems, that it wouldn't matter that said
>character was Blessed, because if people have extreme faith in a person or
>ideal they can now summon up the power of Blessed miracles in the Wasted
>West, even without the appropriate Arcane Background.  Does this bug anyone
>else?


I think if they believe in him and the future so much they can bind or break
the rule sometimes (especially with faith in anything is as rare as bullets)
more power to them. Fear is the true enemy, and Faith is one tool to use
against it. After all faith is a double bladed sword. It can cause a person
to stand against the odds or make him quiver just as easily.

Christopher Merrill
W.H.A.T.T. Member