From:	Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Smuggling weapons
Date:	Fri, 31 May 1996 10:31:06 -0700 (PDT)

> On Thu, 30 May 1996, David Buehrer wrote:
>
> > Dr. Bolthy von Schotz wrote:
> >
> > |3. The person running the adventure switches off with me. He runs a
> > |physical adept with a high rating weapon focus.

<snip>

> > There is no way in hell that someone could get a weapon focus into Tir
> > if they carried it out in the open like that (the word "hell is being
> > used for emphasis, not in anger). Tir Na Nog's magical security is the
> > highest there is (or at least in the top three). Sure, the sensors
> > won't notice it, but the watchers, elementals, and mages in astral
> > space...not to mention the immortal elf that happens to be walking by.

> Yeah... he's a 4th or 5th grade initiate... he's got some masking on his
> side... bust still.. this is a double digit focus... If he claims he gets
> it in, I'm going to push my case.

Remember, you can only mask foci with total ratings UP TO your initiate
grade. Double-digit focus? You gotta be a double-digit inititate... The
focus is gonna be a giant fraggin beacon... :)