On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Matthew Hunter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 11:46:41PM -0700, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > My point was that PF was active enough for B to hold off an army/defy the > > Empire all by himself. B being assassinated isn't consistent with him > > being bonded with PF, it's true, but he isn't an idiot either. > > Morrolan was assassinated while bonded. Carrying a GW is not a > get-out-of-death-free card. Presumably you still need to be > revivifiable. It's hard to believe a professional would accept a contract on a GW-wielder. M was assassinated only because a) he charged in blindly b) the assassin got lucky (says Sethra) c) it happened in _Jhereg_ I like g-o-o-d-f card. In future I will be referring to GWs as goodf cards. > > > > This point is rather a sore one for me - it seems to me > > > > he should have had more visible effects in the Vladiad and Paarfiad. > > > Vlad would have no way to know much about Baritt -- he doesn't > > > travel in those circles. Paarfi has said little, but then there > > > are many subjects and events concerning which he has said little. > > > Note the little nitpick about the second Jhereg-Dragon war in > > > PotD. > > Vlad knows something about history. And he's curious. And he has a > > personal grudge with the guy. And he's buddies with a bunch of > > chatty Dragons, one of whom worships B in a way that is hardly consistent > > with a low-profile kind of guy. > > And his memory has been fucked with in some respect relevant to > that campaign. In addition, Vlad's interaction consists of > little more than "I don't like him. I will arrange for him to die." > He didn't settle down and research the guy. I think this doesn't address my points, which anyway have more to do with the necessity for there to be a Baritt-shaped space in recent history, which would make that history immensely eventful and clotted. > > > ... success or failure in his attempt; their powers seem to be > > > orthogonal to sorcery (Elder or otherwise), rather than > > > complementary. > > There are many counterexamples. > > I beg to differ. We have seen Blackwand produce some pretty > fireworks but we have little insight into how it has done so, or > indeed whether it might have been Morrolan doing so himself in > some of those instances. See David Silberstein on this point. > > > > On the subject, I would like to once again assert that Morrolan's taking > > > > Blackwand into the Paths, when he fully expects to be staying, is an [disagreements snipped] > > mentioned the truth they'd filet him. Note the Jenoine provided a chamber > > pot - nice touch on their part. Off-topic, if anyone gets an opportunity to hear David Sedaris's spiel on the NPR radio program This American Life about StadiumPal (or something like that), a device for beer drinkers who don't want to brave the bathroom lines at football games, do - it's perhaps the funniest thing I've ever heard.