From: Rannou@info.polymtl.ca (Patrick Rannou)
Subject: Re: Tarresque - Anyone killed one?
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
	<1992Aug20.045727.2512@mdcbbs.com> <mxr.714356717@neptune>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 09:49:54 GMT

In article <mxr.714356717@neptune> mxr@neptune.dsc.com (Max "Boring Slime Distemper" Rible) writes:


   >>>I'm interested in knowing if anyone has ever actually killed a Tarresque in a
   >>>non-Monty Haul campaign.  Any stories?

   >                               the elven archer in the party heaved a 
   >mighty sigh and pulled out her once in a lifetime gift from Correllan 
   >Larethian, a one use arrow of slaying anything once she'd touched it.
   ...
   >                                She managed not to lose an arm getting a 
   >touch on the tarrasque, and then dropped back, sent up a quick prayer and 
   >fired....

   >It fell over... 

   >Whether it was REALLY dead or not, the party weren't about to speculate on, so
   >the druid deposited it under a very deep rock to mud spell, and they carried 
   >on, fingers crossed.

   >It's been a hundred and twenty game years...

   >I think it's about time it woke again...

   This would imply the tarrasque is a divine being itself.  If Corellon
   Larethian--- head of the elvish pantheon and being an archer himself---
   declares an arrow will be able to kill anything, it will kill (not
   render dormant) anything that is capable of being dead.  If the 
   tarrasque is going to wake up again, that means that either (a)
   Corellon Larethian isn't that powerful or (b) that the tarrasque is
   a mythic monster on the level of some sort of god in its own right.
   Be careful when cheapening gifts from deities; news of this could
   seriously undermine the faith of the religion when it turns out that
   Corellon's power couldn't slay a creature that can be taken out by
   mortals.


Ha,  but there *IS* a different between KILLING and SLAYING, innit?

A KILLED character can be raised. A SLAYED character is gone for good.

Or maybe that's just playing on terminology.

See the difference? The arrow did only "Kill" the beast, not completely
render it's lifeforce destroyed utterly, see? Personnally, I consider the
power of the tarrasque like a kinda innate power:

Innate power:  Category:      Automatic.
               Effect:        Resurrection True
               Condition:     On new moon
                              (or 30 days casting time, whatever)

And since it really takes a wish to prevent an innate hability from
EXKISTING (different from preventing it from working), then the tarrasque
may just be avble to come back...

OK, so it should have been an arrow of Slaying, maybe. But i'm sure other
deities are more interested in the continual existance of the monster, so
Corelon lLarethians godly power must not be assumed to always apply here...

It depends on how you treat deituies, really. If you view them as really
supra powerful being that can destroy the entire planet on a whim, then
everything is possible...

Pat.
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