On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > > Vlad has received a course in Stealth 101 from *THE* absolute > > top-level Jhereg expert in stealth. > You are talking about Kiera here, right? Not Kragar or Mario? > It's not clear to me who among this group would win a stealthathon - > one person who's not really real and two we don't know very much about... Hm. Different applications for different situations. If you need someone to walk undetected through a crowd, Kragar wins hands down -- but Kiera is the person to call when you need to circumvent antitheft systems. Both kinds of 'stealth', but distinct, if you follow. As for Kragar teaching Vlad his dimness, it seems fairly clear from the text that it's an innate (and undesired) quality, not a skill he picked up or developed consciously. paul e.