On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 05:37:13AM -0400, Small PinkMouse wrote:
Hmmmm! At the time I wrote the 'My eye is on you' paragraph I'd had some vague worries that he was sounding more like a cop than like an assassin before I'd decided that any assassin trying to warn rather than
just going ahead and taking preemptive action would probably end up sounding like a cop anyway.
The archetype I was actually thinking of was more in line with Lois McMasters Bujold's Bothari from "Warrior's Apprentice" or Joachim Steubens from David Drake's "Hammer's Slammers" - the natural killer who has just
Naw, Konatsu's not mentally unstable enough to be Bothari.
But this got me to wondering: What would happen in a Vorkosigan/Ranma
crossover? (For those of you who haven't read Bujold's books, all I
can say is "they're worth it", sorry.) Would Miles be different enough
from the Drowned Man "template" that the pool would work on him? Would
Lord Dono appreciate being told about Jusenkyo so he could complete
the job, as it were? And one wonders what the people of Athos would do
with this knowledge.
Jonathan Rosebaugh (whose hindbrain has been screaming "Pool of
Drowned Quaddie!")