tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post519223947572087326..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: Carousing in WessexJeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-51648415900471162072011-09-29T06:15:43.618-05:002011-09-29T06:15:43.618-05:00What else do you get for sponsoring massive feasts...What else do you get for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch" rel="nofollow">sponsoring</a> <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=f3UKRcaDifQC&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=power+gift+consumption+feast&source=bl&ots=TKXKFHPlj8&sig=FHdJxzlrBrLAqDIMn3C_Ta64q2I&hl=en&ei=XlKETp7eJsOUOu-q-dQB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=power%20gift%20consumption%20feast&f=false" rel="nofollow">massive feasts</a> and inflating the local economy? <br /><br />Henchmen/followers. Non-capitalistic, exchange-based power.* The probably <a href="http://books.google.fr/books?id=qjRuCRGdOEYC&lpg=PA388&ots=AaNmzquB9J&dq=sharks%20that%20walk%20dening&hl=en&pg=PA157#v=onepage&q=entr'acte&f=false" rel="nofollow">suspicious attention</a> both of any other "big men" in the neighbourhood (including the local lord, merchant-moneylenders, crime bosses, church fathers) and of elders who understand the tributes such men inevitably demand. Gold rushes, as other people emulate you. Lasting changes in the economy/demographics of the local area. Permanent feasting-halls or palaces. A reputation for loosening the morals and raising the expectations of the peasantry. Pressure from town or parish fathers to take a responsible interest in where the money is going. Tax collectors.<br /><br />This is really, really great - I had some sense of your carousing rules before but not the whole picture. I've been toying with doing a southeast Asian pirates saltbox for a while, under quite similar social conditions to your Wessex: this just might push me into it.<br /><br />*cf. "ring-giver" in Beowulf. or, from Baha'i: "As to the Nineteen Day Feast, it rejoiceth mind and heart. If this feast be held in the proper fashion, the friends will, once in nineteen days, find themselves spiritually restored, and endued with a power that is not of this world." Abdu'l-Baharichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517340075234811323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-64175461835253485982011-09-29T04:01:20.704-05:002011-09-29T04:01:20.704-05:00I love your shit, Jeff. I really do.I love your shit, Jeff. I really do.Norberthttp://analogkonsole.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-35737619295934202842011-09-28T19:00:38.991-05:002011-09-28T19:00:38.991-05:00So fun!So fun!Theodric the Obscurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18201793290118146978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-50071805119086294512011-09-28T10:23:44.306-05:002011-09-28T10:23:44.306-05:00"Adventurer groupies"... love it!"Adventurer groupies"... love it!Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.com