[Dragaera] Seventeen Maybe Different Jhegaala Spoilers

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Scott Schultz wrote:

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>> Note that the costs of transport are trivial under the new Orb.
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> I'm not sure that assumption is warranted until we see an example of trade 
> goods being shipped via teleport. As far as  I can remember, goods in the 
> Empire still move around the old fashioned way.

This is already false at the end of the Piroiad.


>> Also I'd expect that adding sorcery to the recipe would solve the
>> stink.  Which leads to the question, why does the meatpacking
>> district smell in Adrilahnka, but ok.
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> It may be theoretically possible and yet be impractical.

I doubt we know enough to argue the point.

>> Anyway Vlad is a very bizarre trade delegation - is it even an 
>> implausible lie?
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> Apparently not, since the Count doesn't buy it, but it's not all that 
> unreasonable on the face of it. Why not send an Easterner to deal with other 
> Easterners?

Just that Vlad doesn't make a likely deputation, what with the sword and 
the familiars and the attitude.  An older Easterner, more likely a group
including such an Easterner, would be what I'd expect, esp. given 
teleportation.  There'd be a letter the Count could read, etc.