----- Original Message ----- From: "Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> To: "Dragaera Mailing List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:52 PM Subject: Re: The Magic Box I've always thought it was a recorder anyway, just because the translator would need a recording and not a single transmission anyway, and it always sounded like a tape recorder. My vote is that Devera acts as a courier. Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you. I like this idea. That would also leave her available to "drop off" the political science books that are used to help the revolutionaries we see in Phoenix. If that is the case, it begs the question: is Steve playing both sides against the middle, experimenting with revolution from a minimum safe distance, or did he stir up trouble just to have a good storyline? Jeff