Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > >> >> That's likely because they don't have the time/inclination >> to train Vlad in the use of their own weapons. Remember >> they also had a rack full of things Vlad recognised as >> weapons. And I doubt its coincidence that the weapons >> they plan on giving to allies are more harmful to their >> enemies than to themselves. > > I think using the verb "plan" with "Jenoine" as the subject > is a bit of a stretch. And it seems to me that they give > Vlad the only weapon useful against themselves. They > appear to find MWs useful - though they don't use one > against Verra (trying to cleanse my mind of the image of > her jumping on the back of one and clawing him) - and while > it's by no means solid evidence, I think they ought to have > given Vlad a non-Morganti dagger designed to be safe to > Jenoine if they had the technology. I know I worded my comments poorly, but I wanted to include the weapons rack as well as the Morganti dagger, but exclude the weapons used on Morrolan and Aliera and pointed at Verra. > The weapons rack you allude to strikes me as decorative to > first order - the war for Dragaera won't be won with plain > steel. Decorative for whom? The prisoners aren't supposed to see it. Note that it was harder to find than the doorway leading out to the river of amorphia. --KG