#92, RE: Entr'acte: The Courtship of Princess Dessler: Discussion
Posted by ejheckathorn on Sep-01-01 at 03:11 PM
In response to message #77
>> >>15.0)Why use setting 3 on the ppg? 1 would have stopped the assain, >>and left him alive for questioning... >> >>-- >>-Pasha >>Umm, right....I'll be with you in just a sec now... > >Not being the author, my opinion isn't worth much, but: > >Why setting 3? Because Devlin didn't want to waste time changing the >setting. > >He's carrying it to deal with Psi Cops, after all. From what I've >been told, an unregistered telepath caught by the Psi Cops has three >major options: Join the Psi Corps, go to prison, or take drugs that >are the chemical equivalent of a frontal lobotomy. > >Faced with those options, adding assault with a deadly weapon, murder, >possession of an unlicensed firearm, carrying concealed without a >permit, and resisting arrest is chump change. Speaking of the PPG... how _did_ Devlin sneak it into the palace? Don't they scan people for weapons? Eric J. Heckathorn ericjh@stargate.net
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