[Dragaera] [Dzur spoiler] Possible crack in the orb

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 8/10/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Good point, I think.  Also Kragar was nobody (or so it seemed at least)
> when Vlad met him - it's odd to me that he would have been in a position
> to have someone think him worth introducing to Mario, and I'd be surprised
> if Mario hadn't recognized his qualities and used or helped him in such a
> way that 85 years later he should have been somebody.

Incidentally, the idea of a contact that nobody can find amuses me.
Maybe it's a way of screening potential customers to see how
interested they really are. ;)

> Related - Mario kills a Left Hand coming out of a teleport, and Vlad's
> jaw drops.  Couldn't it be as simple a thing as she always teleports to
> the same spot and one just waits there?

Could be, although it's probably more complicated in practice. You
could have some surveillance on her at the other end to know exactly
when she's about to make the teleport; just so you don't go stabbing
random people when you see the pre-teleport shimmers. Also, Vlad asked
what the "official story" is going to be and Mario gave it to him;
there's no guarantee that that's what actually happened to her, only
that it will look that way to investigators.

I don't think there's any indication that Vlad couldn't work out how
to do the same thing if he thought about it. It does appear to be
difficult enough that he never even considered the possibility; but
then, Vlad isn't a very good sorcerer by all accounts...

-Maximilian

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