Cards as currency

Brownes3 · 12 Jul 1998, 14:29 · from whorl-v0008.mbox · original

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From: Brownes3 at aol.com
Subject: (whorl) Cards as currency
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:29:19 EDT
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>>If they're not interchangable, then the whole idea that Pas set them up as
>>currency weakens anyway--although I suppose if one Card holds an entire
>>personality--"Majordomo Fred", say--then just bringing along a good set of
>>them would give you enough personalities to make the system functional.

They aren't interchangable. Look at the conversation between between Silk a=
nd
Malmeta. He has lots of cards, but they are the wrong kind. She can't use a=
ll
the ones he has and needs the right kind. Further, if memory serves, the ca=
rds
are shaped differently and that's how Malmeta tells them apart.

I do agree with the notion of Pas' plan to keep everyone onboard. It's also
likely that  he distributed the different cards throughout the ship so no o=
ne
faction could control the landers and therefore the colonies on the short s=
un
world.

I'm glad someone else has just finished TBotLS, too. I've a few questions a=
nd
observations to make also.

Rich Browne

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