Philip Hart wrote: >On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ken Koester wrote: > > >> No virus could work that fast. And sorcery could cure anything you came >> >>up with. No one has managed to make a living at biowar yet >> >> > >I take it you're talking present-day tech. > > A century isn't likely to change this very much. And the original posit ws 21st century tech, IIRC. >I don't know if sorcery would be trivially useful against a sufficiently >cleverly designed virus - presumably the spell would have to inspect all >the victim's DNA for a recognized sequence. > > Maybe it just jacks up the body's natural immune system sky high. We do know that plagues were effective during the Interregnum, & by inference, that they were not a problem when the Orb was active. Snarkhunter