On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Bryan Newell wrote: > (*) I find it very difficult to believe that Dzur ever find employment in > this way, at least not pure-breed Dzurs. One thing I kept expecting Piro to come up with, re:Ibronka, cross-House love, was, 'Duh! I can fight my way into the Dzur!', which would be suitably romantic a long-shot die-for-love thing to appeal to him. Of course, turning his back on his father's House would hardly endear him to Khaavren, but it *would* solve the whole cross-House thing. Apropos of which, how does the Dzur's quasi-open membership (open for all suitably badassed badasses, that is) affect their genetic markers? pe -- <TomF> hardware is what we call a collective noun, like semen.