On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > rone at ennui.org (roger n. tospott) writes: > > > Gaertk at aol.com writes: > > > >> For anyone surprised by the actions of certain people at > >> the end of LOCB, all I can say is that you were warned. > >> Specifically, on the first page of chapter 18. (And those > >> of you discussing the Orb/Cycle/Emporer/phoenix would find > >> the rest of that chapter enlightening as well.) > > > > I am not certain if you mean Chapter the Eighteenth, or the > > 18th chapter in LoCB, which would be Chapter the > > Fifty-second. In either case, i find the first page rather > > unenlightening in regards to there being a warning for the > > sudden event, so i'm left wondering what, exactly, you > > meant. > > Yeah, no one on rasfw understood what I meant either. (And > if I meant chapter 52 I would have said so.) > > I re-read POTD right before LOCB. In fact, IIRC, I read the > page in question on July 31 (I got a bit behind schedule), > and the omission of a certain name stopped me dead, and then > I noticed a second name missing, which caused me to ponder, > then wonder (or is that the other way around?), and > eventually speculate. Allowing myself to speculate about another's speculation, there's a list of admirable people which consists of Sethra and Aerich. No Khaavren, no Pel, no Piro. No Morrolan either for that matter, but maybe he's considered to be still finding his way. Anyway, perhaps Pel is playing a deeper game than we think (no, that's ridiculous, he's got all he wanted). Hmm, no Zerika. Perhaps when the gossip breaks she'll have Pel starred without a chance to orb-testify. Perhaps Khaavren will have to kill Piro to prevent some disaster. Perhaps someone else should try this guessing game because the above isn't convincing even me.