Re: The Broad Axe Tavern

From: gabai@paul.rutgers.edu (Steven Gabai)

Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1989 03:53:17 +0000

[12:30pm]
A young beaurocrat walks into the room, and clears his throat.
He then begins to talk on and on about the virtues of Megara:
[make a saving throw at -20 on a d20, to avoid hearing this:-)]
[because of references made, this has to be an out-of-game
"speech":-)]

In response to several questions and misunderstandings:
Megara is not a theocracy.  It has a state religion, Tioneism, but
the cult of Tione is NOT part of day-to-day government.  The relationship
between Tioneism and Megara is closer to that between Anglicanism and
England than that between Islam and Iran.  In fact, most Megarans are
not cultists of Tione; they are generic polytheists.  On the other hand,
the Megaran equivalent of swearing on a Bible is swearing by the scepter
of Tione, and clerics of Tione do have some special privileges not
given to other clerics.

The cults which are illegal in Megara are: Mawt and Asmotl.
(For reference: The cult of Mawt is illegal in Khotan, too.)

[for further questions contact davel@whuts.att.com]
[He then turns and leaves.]
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[we now return to the game]

References

The Broad Axe Tavern is now open for busy
gabai@paul.rutgers.edu (Steven Gabai)
Sat, 17 Jun 1989 13:51:03 +0000
Re: The Broad Axe Tavern is now open for busy
csttrdq@warwick.ac.uk (Tim Spiro Dedopulos)
Wed, 21 Jun 1989 20:30:21 +0000