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Message no. 1
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: sr/ed ties (Mestoph's Fate)
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 20:30:50 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-07 23:15:32 EDT, NAGELBH@******.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU
writes:

> > Also, there was discussion going around about some of the immortal
> > characters that would have survived since ED into SR, what about Mestoph

> the
> > Elven Nethermancer, he would be at the forefront of Initiate exploration

> in
> > SR. BTW, personally, I would LOVE to see nethermancy make an appearance
> into
> > SR : )
>
> Hmm, so Mestoph *didn't* actually die in that li'l story at the beginning
of
> the ED rulebook?
>
> losthalo
>
>
Oh yeah, he died, quite grotesquely in fact, the writers' just used
"privilege" and utilized the name elsewhere to help the reader create a sense
of continuity, so that attention spans would keep working. It's a subliminal
technique...
-K
Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: sr/ed ties (Mestoph's Fate)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:35:55 +0100
|Oh yeah, he died, quite grotesquely in fact, the writers' just used
|"privilege" and utilized the name elsewhere to help the reader create a sense
|of continuity, so that attention spans would keep working. It's a subliminal
|technique...

You seem to be obsessed with attention spans...
You an American Schoolteacher or something....

Over here on this side of the pond, our attention spans are fine, for the
mooo ooo look, a butterfly...... Pretty

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Message no. 3
From: "J. Keith Henry" <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: sr/ed ties (Mestoph's Fate)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:35:41 -0400
In a message dated 97-07-09 15:28:24 EDT, u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK (Spike)
writes:

>
> You seem to be obsessed with attention spans...
> You an American Schoolteacher or something....
>
> Over here on this side of the pond, our attention spans are fine, for the
> mooo ooo look, a butterfly...... Pretty
>
(Ruler tapping on the blackboard...) Spike, Spike,,, it's over here Spike...

Sorry, I'm not trying to sound obsessed, I'm just pointing things out from a
point of view other than a gamers...it is often required to understand the
goofed up economics and marketing stuff.
-K
Message no. 4
From: "Bruce H. Nagel" <NAGELBH@******.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>
Subject: Re: sr/ed ties (Mestoph's Fate)
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 23:32:11 -0500
You wrote:
Basically I figure he was used elsewhere describing events that happened before
he met his untimely demise...

losthalo

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