MaBarry asks:
"How young will you allow someone IYC to Walk the Pattern? Are there any exceptions? Why or why not?"
This depends on a lot of things, the rules have been severely bent in backstory, and thus the "game time" rules for walking are stricter than what characters have done in the past.
IMC, Random doesn't want anyone, realistically, under 20 to walk the Pattern. Random expects veto power over anyone going, and especially in times of danger, is not usually inclined to immediate granting of that. Thus, in SB, a couple of PCs and an NPC sidestepped the issue by going up to Tir to do it (on a night that Tir was not that stable, too. But with Bhangbadea there to help, it ended well for all participants).
In backstories, though, PCs have managed to walk the Pattern as young as their early to mid teens...but I probably wouldn't allow such a feat to happen again. After all, I did veto a PC who as a child walked the Pattern at ACUS.
It is indeed not a light thing to walk the Pattern. There is always the chance, no matter how well prepared, of peril and danger.
Posted by Jvstin at July 12, 2003 8:18 AM