Grady Brandt wrote: >>From: Ken Koester [mailto:kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov] >>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:56 AM >>Since they've already gone after Morollan once, even though he's had >>Blackwand for 200+ years or so, that argues that either they (House >>Jhereg) don't really know what a GW is, or they discount what it can do >>(ie, they do not excessively fear it), or that it is *not* easy to >>recognize what is and what isn't a GW. Any of these mean that Lady T. >>cannot be counted on to cause the Council to back off in the slightest. >> >> > >I think surviving a verifiable Morganti job (maybe two) should be enough to >give them pause, regardless of what they know about GWs in general and >whether they know Vlad's got one. > Morganti is a plus, but what they'll settle for is dead-is-dead. . . and when they went after Morollan, they showed they already knew how to do that; they just weren't successful at it. What does Vlad have that Morollan does not? Not enough to cause the Council to back off, no matter how many attempts Vlad survives & no matter how many times he unsheathes Lady T., I submit. >Hmm. Wonder if the Council would try to pump Kragar, or if they wouldn't >think of it. :) > Wouldn't notice him, more like (-: Snarkhunter