[Torg] Moment of Crisis

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Phil Dack <philipdack at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>  --- Jerry S Fisk <jsfisk at alphasynthetics.com> wrote:
>  > Well, letstake a look at the whole picture here.  A moment
>  > of crisis would bea life altering decision that takes a
>
> > conscience and willful act. Torg has a dry cut way of
>  > putting things.  And life is not thatway.  So anything
>  > that would make your character look inside tocheck their
>
> > moral compass would be a MoC.
>
>  It just strikes me that a MoC is a rare thing, given the rate of
>  prated sparking. As such, the significance of the moral decision
>  ought to be at least some way proportional to the likelihood of
>  sparking. Yes, morality may be shades of gray, but at the
>  extremities these will still tend towards black or white, and I
>  would've thought that moral decisions sufficient to attract the
>  Eo4 will need to be of that order.
>

I look at it as Phil says it with the following caveats.. every one of
those internal struggles are 'moments of crisis', but ones that would
best effect many people's lives (beyond say just a beings personal
world) become 'moments of Crisis', with some rare events that are
within some 'higher' beings view MOMENTS OF CRISIS which causes the
spark. I figure that the multiverse is rather chaotic in choosing when
those moments are .. Joe the Firefighter might have risked his life
hundreds of times, saved thousands of kids, moms, etc and never
sparked. His partner Jim did it on the 3rd fire when saving a kitty
and a dolly for a little girl. The reason for it is outside of
anything that Jim or Joe know about.. maybe that little girl will go
on to become some great hero 30 years from now because she was
inspired by Jim coming out of that fire looking like the Archangel
Gabriel himself when she had lost all hope that her little kitty would
live. Or it could be that the spirit of Coyote saw Jim and didnt see
Joe rescueing her parents. Or it could be that Joe will now feel more
and more anger that this whelp of a kid has gone on to be a
'super-hero' to the town that Joe becomes an arsonist thus furthering
Jim's story/legend later on.

Actually I think thats it.. its more about what makes the better
legend, inspiration of hope to the future than anything else. The high
lords try to turn the story opposite.. what will destroy dreams,
provoke apathy, etc.


>  This also reminds me of a scene in the Torg novels, when a
>  Ravagon cornered someone at the point of their MoC. That seemed
>  to suggest that there was some detectable difference between
>  those who chose one moral path over the other, but that might be
>  my misrecollection....
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