From: fannicm@wkuvx1.bitnet Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Re: Brighter lights and Louder sounds!! Message-ID: <1992Oct17.141308.3264@wkuvx1.bitnet> Date: 17 Oct 92 14:13:08 CDT References: <1992Oct13.080258.3106@wkuvx1.bitnet> <1992Oct13.153738.3132@wkuvx1.bitnet> In article , jgreene@dorm.rutgers.edu (Jeffrey Greene) writes: > [ADMIN: I'm assuming that the drow has already returned from the Spitting > Cobra. If I'm worng, it won't be the first time.] [ADMIN: In this part of the thread she wasn't supposed to have left yet, but the time-frame makes no real difference.] > He addressed the dark elf, "Well, RuneCaster, I'm afraid you misunderstood my > intent. I do not want to learn more 'advanced' magics, but instead to refine > my understanding of what I already know. "The first step in refining that which you know is to determine how much you can learn and are capable of. It would be criminal to leave potential untrained or unknown, would it not?" > "But, after that, I do not understand the rest of your explanation. Is it > dishonorable for you to teach, or to learn? And why, pray tell, don't > you believe yourself, RuneCaster?" "I'm afraid that I did not make myself very clear, what I meant was it would be dishonourable for me to teach you for the reasons that I said if I did not allow you to teach me. How else is a man's worth judged but by his words and actions?" At this she stood and looked around the bar, searching for the man who had leant her the adamantine knife she now held in her hand. After all, she had to return it, even if it wasn't in *quite* the same condition... ----- Master Hawk Leader of the Night Parade "And it shall come to pass that what men made shall be shattered, and the Shadow shall lie across the Pattern of the Age, and the Dark One shall once more lay his hand upon the world of man." -from The Karaethon Cycle: The Prophecies of the Dragon.