The Sorcerer's House Questions (Major Spoilers)

James Crossley · 31 Mar 2010, 06:18 · from 2010-March.txt.gz

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From: ishmael at drizzle.com (James Crossley)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:18:10 -0700
Subject: (urth) The Sorcerer's House Questions (*Major Spoilers*)
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Message-ID: <C7D83732.B7C3%ishmael at drizzle.com>

On 3/30/10 6:55 PM, "Thomas Bitterman" <tom at bitterman.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Bax has two audiences: Millie and the general public.? Millie is the most
> important - he needs to woo her (and anger George) and uses her fondness for
> fantastic stories to do it.? The general public will be dissuaded from looking
> too closely at the dodgy transactions involved due to the fantastic stories
> surrounding them.? And last, Bax wants to brag.
> 
It?s just possible that Bax (or someone) might construct a bizarre fantasy
to pull the wool over Millie?s eyes, but frankly, she seems too
simple-minded to appreciate the convoluted way the fantasy is laid out, so
that part of the argument isn?t very convincing to me.

As for the general public being less inclined to examine dodgy financial
transactions because of a barely-coherent cover story involving facefoxes,
silver bullets, vampires and sorcerers, I?m afraid that?s completely
implausible.

James
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