[Runequest] Gorp Question

[Wayne Shaw]

>    Gorp aren't a threat because it's hard to outrun them.  They're a threat
>because killing them is difficult.  They prefer water, and so are most
>commonly found there, but the best weapon against them is fire.  They damage
>anything that inflicts damage on them, and they slowly destroy armor.  They
>are, however, quite vulnerable to Disruption.  They are also quite hard to
>spot in water.

And of course in enclosed places you can have the problem that they 
can simply cut you off; gorp encounters in open, non-wet environments 
shouldn't be common anyway; they always struck me as swamp and damp 
cavern type threats.