On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 Bato001 at aol.com wrote: # #In a message dated 8/31/2004 9:23:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, #philiph at slac.stanford.edu writes: # #> I personally like to think that every house has a secret way in, even if #> > Vlad doesn't know it. #> #> Presumably, if you can fool the top people in the House of Yendi into #> thinking that you already *are* a member, that proves that you're good #> enough to join :-) # # #If (as I suspect) House Yendi is the house of cuckoos, there are a lot of #members of the house who just don't know it yet. Perhaps the secret #entrance is in fact the normal entrance... # # # #I don't believe you are allowed to buy into any house except Jhereg. Dzur is #the only other house I remember there being a way in except for birth. We don't KNOW of any house other than Jhereg that you can buy into. That's very different from knowing, or having a basis to believe, that there are none. As I am pretty sure I posted to this list a few days ago, in Brokedown Palace Miklos swore fealty to a Dragaeran noble and joined the Teckla. That's how he gained access to Dragaeran sorcery. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]