On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 09:09:59 -0400, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > Grady Brandt wrote: > >> Isn't part of diplomacy knowing when to threaten? Diplomatically, of >> course. Maybe we'll see the effect confined to just a few people, or >> perhaps just a small radius. Everyone in 5 feet will know Vlad's >> carrying a horrifically powerful Morganti blade, instead of everyone >> in the building. >> > The purpose of the blade is *not* to terrify people. Maybe it will do > so as a side effect - but not all Great Weapons do this. We don't > even know that ordinary folk will recognize it as a GW - remember that I don't intend to suggest that it is, I was only speculating on it's possible attributes based on my assumption that a threat can be a useful diplomatic tool, and the already well-known attributes of certain other Great Weapons. As to the rest of your comments, well, I am entirely of the same opinion. -- Everything works in Theory. I need to learn how to program in Theory.