In our previous episode at 07:27 PM 3/25/03, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >I don't mind characters changing, but authors need to decide >before the second story whether a given character will >change. Why? Real people don't, you know. And that's one of the points of a shared world; a character that would have toodled along happily unchanging under some circumstances may be changed entirely by something that another character does, even if it's seemingly minor. -- Beth Friedman / bjf at wavefront.com There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't.