AEG spoilers - Gid as Timelord?

Dave Tallman · 28 Oct 2008, 12:01 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:01:18 -0600
Subject: (urth) AEG spoilers - Gid as Timelord?
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Thalassocrat wrote:
> - The only time discrepancies we get told about explicitly involve him:
> messages around his birth, and his ethermail message to Cassie.
>   
If the birth announcement message was treated like Cassie's ethermail 
(sent in order to avoid time complications) then it's possible that 
there was no child at all and that Gid is an imposter. On the other 
hand, the President treats him as the genuine son of the ambassador (p )

> - He wears a watch but doesn't need to look at it.
> - The only RC we know about in this story is his father Bob. Did HPL give
> the watch to Bob, ~150 years ago?
> - Gid seems too old. Bob was the first ambassador to Woldercon;  then
> Klausner; then Bill, up until a couple of years ago.  Gid was born on
> Woldercon, and left when he was a child. Say he was five at the time, and
> say Sharon is right and he's around 35 now. That means say 28 years total
> for the ambassadorships of Klausner and Bill. But Bill's service was during
> the two terms of Ingstrup's presidency, so around 8 years. That makes
> Klausner ambassador for 20 years - how likely??
> - How long is it between the time he gts his leg cut off and the time he
> reappears as Gil, prancing around on his peg-leg with a dancing demi-goddess
> on stage? Three months or so? How likely?? (But Gid is surely half-human at
> most, so maybe he has superior recuperation powers or something.)
>

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