Game
- Is a restless ghost bothering one of your people? You have the option of taking legal action against it.
And that can work.Grimith: (while reading Clan Ring member suggestions) Conduct a lawsuit... *starts chuckling* Conduct a lawsuit against the ghost?! (picks the option) Our [lawspeaker] charged it with unlawful trespass, and a juror ruled against the ghost, who was forced [to depart]—*uncontrolled laughter* WHAT?!... Okay! I'll take it! - Tricksters can provide these. A classic example came in a Let's Play, where the clan chief completed the heroquest to form a tribe, but was injured in the process. Afterward, the clan Trickster became the acting chief. And when you first form a tribe, the default option is to name it after the chief...
- Tricksters, and their patron god Eurmal, are generally Crazy Is Cool. What can the Trickster do when your explorers find a Dragon's nest? Teach it to gamble and swindle wealth from it! That is, unless the dragon tricks the trickster and takes wealth from you.
- Another event has a clanwoman come to you on matters of an unfaithful husband, and wants a divorce with the dowry price as recompense. What does your Trickster say about this?
Trickster: Told you it wouldn't last. - You know how at least one of your ring likes to speak in useless aphorisms? The ghosts of your ancestors might actually threaten them in an attempt to get them to stop.
- There's an event where your ancestors rise from their graves to condemn the behavior of your clan. If you can't think of anything bad you've done, try scolding them right back—they might sheepishly admit they can't think of anything, either, and back off.
- If you go to Malia’s ritual screen to sacrifice to her and check on on your ring members, almost all of them are inevitably (and understandably) going to be discourage it by giving panicked shouts of “Not Malia!”. Even tricksters, who normally joke around even in dark situations, will seriously warn you that not even Eurmal would dare prank Malia.
- It is entirely possible to get a ring noble who has an inexplicable hatred for and paranoia toward undead, trolls, or elves, even when they're not your ancestral enemy. As a result, everything s/he says will involve worrying about or preparing to fight that enemy, even when you're asking for something like farming advice.
- One event has a Troll warrior come to your tula demanding a duel. After selecting your most skilled combatant, the Troll declares that the duel is an eating contest: Whoever eats the most wins. Trolls are serious Big Eaters. Several hours later, the troll is full and thanks you for the "snack". Meanwhile, whoever you sent in is too full to so much as talk.The poor schmuck you sent in: Uhh... Ooh...
- If you have a Trickster and send him to the contest, he happily states "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" He proceeds to do exactly that, gulping down a whole horse before it can even whinney. Then he moves on to two cows, and does the same to them. It's left unclear if the Troll is outpaced by your Trickster's sudden bout of hunger, or just too bewildered to work up an appetite.
- Upon gaining favour with the tall, mysterious "Bronze Man" sent to test you, the man takes off his armor and reveals himself to be a dwarf. Just a bog-standard dwarf! And a rather pedantic one, at that. He apathetically notes down your clan's results and leaves without further ado. The leader has to shout after him to clarify the test's outcome.
- A duck clan asks to join your tribe...by boasting about how much better they are than humans and remarking, seemingly idly, that the tribe will be incomplete until it includes them.
- The Ducks in general can be one for those not familiar with RuneQuest. Imagine the stunned face of a new player expecting a somewhat normal game about managing a Barbarian Tribe... only to meet Donald Duck's Bronze Age cousins. Welcome to Glorantha, we have much weirder stuff in store.
- A ring member skilled in bargaining may attempt to explain the concept of coins to other Orlanthi by calling them "a small portable cow that does not moo."
- If you are able to successfully train Earthshakersnote as war mounts, at least one of ring members are will react with a simple awestruck “Whoa”. This is especially funny if it comes from a normally unflappable war general or a trickster.
Meta
- An announcement of the game going on sale was typeset exactly like an in-game event, complete with various options:
Response 4: Get the Windows version on GOG.com.
text: Clan members were sad that we had no iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. But they praised the ring for finding another way.
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Let's-Plays
- In Grimith's LP, everything is going right, then his king-elect gets killed The meltdown is epic.
