From: agreene@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Campaign, characters, etc.
Reply-To: agreene@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:09:14 GMT

Telestro ip Wandrun wrote,
and then
Colin J. Wynne wrote:
That On Mon, 16 Nov 1992, Telestro ip Wandrun wrote:

>> easiest to kill to the hardest:
(top High Lords deleted)
   The Gaunt Man
   Mobius
   Jean Malreaux

 I seem to remember that he considered both Mobius and Malreaux more of a 
 threat
 than the Gaunt Man because Malreaux has Big Guns and Powerful Miracles and
 Mobius is so dangerously unpredictable.

Then Colin (I think, or am I confused now?) wrote: 
[???????  The Gaunt Man and his DD both have Occult skills of 30 or higher!
[Heketon's is somewhere in the 50's, I think?
[Do you know what that means?  Wish parsing!  Whatever they ask for, they
[get!  How much of a slough is that?  I'll tackle Malreaux over TGM *any* day!

Then Telestro (I know I'm confused now) replied:
[Well, you have to realize the character's mentality.  He's a psychotic with 
[little connection to reality at best.  I'm afraid that his transformation from 
[Aysle to CP axioms addled his mind too much.  (Plus, it turned out that he was a 
[Nile villian before he appeared in the game.  Ain't cards fun?)  I was sort of 
[thinking that the Gaunt Man would be the hardest to tackle, him being the 
[ertwhile leader of the High Lords, plus probably the smartest, and certainly the 
[angriest after his encounter with the Heart of Coyote.
>
 And sorry, I don't know anything about wish parsing.  Haven't read the 
 rulebooks, because that would cost my characters possibilities.  ;)
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>| ___                    | |#include "voodoo.h"| | "Sufficiently advanced  |
>|  | elestro ip Wandrun, | \-------------------/ |  technology is          |
>| aka Tim Bailey         |      \|/     \|/      |  indistinguishable from |
>| baileyt@kirk.msoe.edu  |      -O-     -O-      |  magic."  -Clarke's Law |
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And now, I (Anthony, yes I think it's me) will reply:

	The Heart of Coyote:  exactly.  How could anyone POSSIBLY consider the
Gaunt Man the most dangerous High Lord, or dangerous at all for that matter, if 
he could allow himself to be so easily incinerated by a group of Storm Knights
of almost child-like stupidity!  Now it just testifies that to exactly how
BAD the _Possibility_Wars_ novels really were that the supposed "Genius
mastermind" behind this grand scale invasion of Earth would so easily let some
pretentious group of strangers right into the most heavily fortified and
nastily guarded fortresses in the country, without a problem whatsoever.  Worse
yet, he lets one of said Storm Knights stuff an eternity shard down his pants. 
Now I don't know about the rest of you girls and guys out there in TORG-land,
but that kind of an incident does not exactly inspire a whole lot of dread and
terror for this supposed "Master" of horrors!!!
         At least Mobius has a sense of humor.  So I say he dies last...

	Oh, by the way.  I agree about Baruk Kaah--put the poor stupid lizard
out of his misery.  I think he suffered some ireperable brain damage from that
M60 hit he took from Decker--one of the few good (hilarious, at least) scenes
from the novels, IMHO.

--Anthony Greene
-For once I won't leave a message about Pea Soup...




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