Endymion9's IGJ Questions

Christoph Mnemonic · 10 Sep 2000, 02:34 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: "Christoph Mnemonic" <mrmnemonic at hotmail.com>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Endymion9's IGJ Questions
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 22:34:30 EDT
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>p.37  When Fava asks Incanto to play the game he says not if it involved
>certain physical activities.  Fava responds "Oh, I can't run."
>p.45 Mora's Story (The GIant's Daughter).  Mora says one girl was good >at
>running and jumping (Mora?).  One girl was good at math and composition
>(Fava?).

>Question:  How can an inhuma be good at composition, writing with a=20
> >delicate
>tool?  I've seen examples of inhumi absorbing personalities, does this=20
> >mean
>they can absorb abilities (composition in the common tongue) also?

As we all know, practice makes perfect.  Also, Fava is said to be much olde=
r=20
than she looks, even older than Inclito's mother, so it's likely she's been=20
at it for quite a while

>p.59  Scylla talks through Oreb saying "Help me!"  Who later says "Watch
>out!"  Oreb?  Another rider.  My question is how much personality is >truly
>Oreb's?  Is it only when he says things like "Fish heads?"  since that
>obviously isn't a rider.  Rider's aren't concerned about the body's=20
> >natural
>needs re:Chenille's sunburn.  Also "No Cut" is obviously Oreb's >thoughts.
>But can Oreb think to the level of "watch out?" on his own?

I would say that there is much more to Oreb than "fish heads?" and "no cut"=
.=20
  Twice in IGJ Horn asks Oreb to find something, and he does (The altar and=20
a way for his horde to pass a swamp).  Obviously, there can't be a rider on=20
Oreb _all_ the time, so I believe that much of what we hear is Oreb's=20
personality, rather than a God.

>p,60  Incanto says inhumi do not like to use tools or use them >skillfully.
>Once again how can Fava write then?

Practice, practice, practive

>p.63 "What did you want with your brother?" the man of the Vanished >People
>asked him.  And he said that he had hoped to bury the corpse and pray >for
>the dead man's spirit.  "So I feared..."

Not a bloody clue.

- Mnemonic
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