From:	"Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject:	Re: genetically-reconstructed brontosaurus
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:17:52 GMT

Gurth writes

> Mark Steedman said on 8:37/12 Sep 96...
>
[dinosaurs LOP!] {or should that be squelch}
>
> This gave me an idea: why wouldn't dinosaurs have extensive magical
> powers? (Actually, come to think of it, this is a revived idea from my one
> submission for NERPS: Dragons, when that still existed as a separate
> project.) I'll explain: because magic moves in cycles, dinosaurs might
> have lived in a very long age in which the mana level was positive all the
> time for millions of years. This would have given most of them various
> powers for protection and/or hunting prey, but none of those powers are of
> course visible in the fossilized bones that have been found over the past
> couple of centuries.
>
Possible, something must have happened to start the 1st age, ???? and
i don't think the mayans go that far back.

> And as for their disappearance 65 million years ago: a Scourge, perhaps?
>
I wonder how many dragons you have to sacrifice to cast 'move
asteroid?'

> > oh and it got called 'A walk in the park' and they still din't guess
> > i missed the 'jurassic' till the earth was shaking like mad! despite
> > setting the run on an island miles from anywhere.
>
> So much for players paying attention to clues :)
tell me about it. <groan.....>

The amount of stuff i have seen incorrectly identified or plain
ignored.
Even worse is the soul that was asked nicely by a good guy NPC to if
possible 'acquire 3 samples from project firestorm 9' {UCAS gov
project and no just in case a local gets in here soon i'm not saying
what it is}
Anyway someone got shown a presidential order to do a job by any
means, which they did for someone else, not only did they forget
about the perfect chance they even forgot to ask the guy for any
money!! (hey two Johnsons for the same job and they plain forgot to
collect off one!)
And considering the toys said NPC has handed out before for favours,
well....

<moan at players mode off>

Mark