[Glorantha] Re: Capacity of truestones

[Simon Phipp]

Gian gets it absolutely right, when describing truestone.

> When you acquire a virgin/blank piece of truestone,
> the first person touching it charges it with all the
> divine magic he/she possesses, so you can have a big
> truestone imbued with just Shield I or a small
> truestone with 50 points of divine magic inside.
> The first time the stone is charged, it is so forever,
> so you can't format it and change the setting.
> So a virgin piece of truestone is worth 100.000 or
> more (per point is unappliable), while a set truestone
> is worth the number of divine magic points it contains
> multiplied per 1000, like an ordinary divine magic
> matrix. 

And, when someone comes into possession of a Truestone, his first inclination
is to touch it, so he has to actively resist the impulse.

> Small or big, it doesn't matter. Of course a big stone
> is more likely to be touched by a large number of
> people when it is charged the first and only time,
> therefore it is more valuable, but the market value
> IMO is senseless due to the rarity of the item.

What normally happens is that a priest goes into Mindlink with as many people
as he can, then he touches it and the truestone sucks their spells from them.
They can't get the spells back until they have been used, but it makes for
one hell of a presenmt for a Temple Guardian.

> Adamantium (refined truestone) hurts chaos a lot. Raw
> Truestone I think so, just remember the
> Block-crushing-Devil. Is the Block blank or full
> truestone??? Can a truestone be filled with chaos
> divine magic, if the first person touching it is a
> chaotic priest? Question, questions...

We used to play that the Block, and other large pieces of Truestone, could
not be filled up. Otherwise, all you need to do is to touch the Block, fill
it up with Shield 1 and make the truestones that fall off unusable.

We also used to play that such a large piece of truestone would suck all the
divine magic out of anyone who touched it, then never give it back. So, don't
touch the Block with your bare hands.

Donald Oddy:
> I thought truestone was an embodiment of law - the opposite
> of chaos. So I'd expect that to result in the stone
> exploding or something.

We played that a chaotic could not attune truestone, so it just would not
accept his magic. We also played that an Illuminated one could use truestones
just fine, thankyouverymuch.

See Ya

Simon