Re: [DL] old ladies [spoilers]

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> Well, this might make them attack EVERY old lady they come across, but...
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> Mina Devlin has a tendency to train various ladies in Black Magic. One
thing
> she's learned is that spells pack more of a wallop if they use a coven
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> contains the three archetypical offices of womanhood. Maiden, Mother and
> [for those Pratchett fans out there] The Other One.

You mean Christopher Lowell?

> Now that the posse is offing little old ladies, it's cutting into Mina's
> powerbase. She's starting to think that it's a plot on the posse's part to
> weaken her in some way, so she starts serripticiously (and Nick will
correct
> my spelling, I'm sure) sending bands of her own after them.

Well, since you asked for it, that would be "surreptitiously".

> From there, it moves into the odd (and I do mean ODD) tendency they have
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> get picked on by Devil Bats. It's uncanny. No matter WHERE the posse
spends
> the night out in the wilderness, a band of DB's is hunting in the
vicinity.

Ooh, good idea.  I'll have to make sure my posse somehow pisses off Black
River sometime.

> Banks the posse keeps its money in get robbed by the masked bands that
Mina
> has been sending across the West (remember...these are the days before
> Federal Insurance...bad luck for the posse).

Hell, yeah!  Hit 'em where it hurts!

> And if all else fails, remember that Mina can call on the Hangin' Judges
if
> she wants to. What might the Judges say about the unprovoked murder of a
> sweet, innocent, little old lady?

Check that- I'll somehow make sure my posse HAS pissed off Black River.

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times