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.Talbot had determined that Dionys was a fairly recent pseudonym, as was thegeneral elven appearance.He had heard rumors that McCanoc's previousincarnation had gone so far off the permissible track that it had actuallycome to the attention of the Council.Whether he had actually been remanded to therapy or simply placed on probationwas unclear, just as the crime for which he had been accused was buried underprivacy restrictions, but as soon as he entered the recreationist sub-culturethe reason for his problems became obvious: Dionys was just bug-house nuts.He had started his career in recreationism by trying to force a duel with theKing of Avalonia.Since the king had no reason to accept the challenge of aduel from a person who hadn't even won his spurs, he rather pointedlydeclined.Dionys then proceeded to start a whisper campaign against the king, accusinghim of everythingfrom cowardice to pedophilia.At the same time he began gathering a group ofhenchmen who were immediately dubbed "The Young Louts" and used them to sowdiscord far and wide in Avalonia.Throughout this period he either avoided tournaments or participated onlyagainst the weakest possible opponents, especially when the rules permittedenhanced weaponry.With excellent power-blades and his Changed size, heswiftly crushed all his opponents.Finally the situation reached a condition of crisis and the king banished himfrom the kingdom.Not content to rest in banishment, Dionys continued hisverbal, political and physical assaults from the fringes of the group untilthe king eventually gave up and agreed to a personal combat.However, due to the ability for people to Change and enhance, formal challengehad changed over the years.What Dionys did not realize was that in such aPage 16 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlchallenge, the Net, which had full access toChange data, determined handicaps based upon the degree of Change of eachfighter.It went without saying that enhanced weaponry was banned.When he went into battle against the king, McCanoc's absolutely mundane armorand weapons were loaded down with nearly a hundred kilos of weight.Because of his avoidance of the challenge ladder, it was unclear how goodMcCanoc might have been.His few battles had ended in massacres, but they werealways against lighter, unskilled opponents.Whatever his actual ability, the challenge against the King of Avalonia wasbrief.The two met in ground combat against one another, both using Ropasanbroadsword, mail and shield.Their swords, befitting the ritual nature of thechallenge, had blunting fields on them and the battle was decided on points.Despite that fact, Dionys was not only defeated but defeated quite bloodily.The King of Avalonia had been in a thousand similar battles over the previouscentury or twain and he knew every legal trick, and most of the illegal ones.He used them to not only win on points, but win in such a way that Dionys wasgoing to remember the pain for some time.At the least he was never againgoing to consider a shield as a purely defensive weapon.When McCanoc stumbledoff the field his helmet was streaming blood out onto his armor.He teleportedout and wasn't seen on the fields again for months.That had been nearly a year before and only in the last few months had theLouts and their ringleader been seen.This time Dionys seemed serious aboutmoving up the challenge ladder and had been fighting opponents who were ofsimilar mass.As it turned out, he was fairly good.But since his opponentstended to have weaponry that was just as enhanced as his, when enhancedweapons were permitted, he was moving up the ladder very slowly.Which appeared to be the problem."I want you to make me a set of turbo armor and a power sword," the fightersaid.Talbot couldn't help himself; he laughed out loud."You have to be joking," the smith finally chuckled."Why onEarth would I make you anything?""Well for one thing, the credits," Dionys said, apparently unfazed by thelaughter."I can pay you handsomely for it, I don't think you'll believe howmuch.""I don't think you have any idea how much it is worth, " Edmund replied."Idon't just conjure armor out of the air or you wouldn't be here.Every pieceis custom constructed from the base iron and for enhanced armor, which Iassume is what you want, I use customized nannites.A full suite takes nearlythree months to complete.What could you possibly offer me that would be worththree months of my precious life?""Two hundred teracredits," Dionys said promptly."What?" Talbot snapped."That's a noticeable slice of the planetary budget!There is no way you can find that sort of money!""I can get it," McCanoc replied."I have.sources.""Okay," Talbot admitted, grudgingly, "assuming you can lay your hands on it,that's a lot of credits.There's only one problem [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Talbot had determined that Dionys was a fairly recent pseudonym, as was thegeneral elven appearance.He had heard rumors that McCanoc's previousincarnation had gone so far off the permissible track that it had actuallycome to the attention of the Council.Whether he had actually been remanded to therapy or simply placed on probationwas unclear, just as the crime for which he had been accused was buried underprivacy restrictions, but as soon as he entered the recreationist sub-culturethe reason for his problems became obvious: Dionys was just bug-house nuts.He had started his career in recreationism by trying to force a duel with theKing of Avalonia.Since the king had no reason to accept the challenge of aduel from a person who hadn't even won his spurs, he rather pointedlydeclined.Dionys then proceeded to start a whisper campaign against the king, accusinghim of everythingfrom cowardice to pedophilia.At the same time he began gathering a group ofhenchmen who were immediately dubbed "The Young Louts" and used them to sowdiscord far and wide in Avalonia.Throughout this period he either avoided tournaments or participated onlyagainst the weakest possible opponents, especially when the rules permittedenhanced weaponry.With excellent power-blades and his Changed size, heswiftly crushed all his opponents.Finally the situation reached a condition of crisis and the king banished himfrom the kingdom.Not content to rest in banishment, Dionys continued hisverbal, political and physical assaults from the fringes of the group untilthe king eventually gave up and agreed to a personal combat.However, due to the ability for people to Change and enhance, formal challengehad changed over the years.What Dionys did not realize was that in such aPage 16 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlchallenge, the Net, which had full access toChange data, determined handicaps based upon the degree of Change of eachfighter.It went without saying that enhanced weaponry was banned.When he went into battle against the king, McCanoc's absolutely mundane armorand weapons were loaded down with nearly a hundred kilos of weight.Because of his avoidance of the challenge ladder, it was unclear how goodMcCanoc might have been.His few battles had ended in massacres, but they werealways against lighter, unskilled opponents.Whatever his actual ability, the challenge against the King of Avalonia wasbrief.The two met in ground combat against one another, both using Ropasanbroadsword, mail and shield.Their swords, befitting the ritual nature of thechallenge, had blunting fields on them and the battle was decided on points.Despite that fact, Dionys was not only defeated but defeated quite bloodily.The King of Avalonia had been in a thousand similar battles over the previouscentury or twain and he knew every legal trick, and most of the illegal ones.He used them to not only win on points, but win in such a way that Dionys wasgoing to remember the pain for some time.At the least he was never againgoing to consider a shield as a purely defensive weapon.When McCanoc stumbledoff the field his helmet was streaming blood out onto his armor.He teleportedout and wasn't seen on the fields again for months.That had been nearly a year before and only in the last few months had theLouts and their ringleader been seen.This time Dionys seemed serious aboutmoving up the challenge ladder and had been fighting opponents who were ofsimilar mass.As it turned out, he was fairly good.But since his opponentstended to have weaponry that was just as enhanced as his, when enhancedweapons were permitted, he was moving up the ladder very slowly.Which appeared to be the problem."I want you to make me a set of turbo armor and a power sword," the fightersaid.Talbot couldn't help himself; he laughed out loud."You have to be joking," the smith finally chuckled."Why onEarth would I make you anything?""Well for one thing, the credits," Dionys said, apparently unfazed by thelaughter."I can pay you handsomely for it, I don't think you'll believe howmuch.""I don't think you have any idea how much it is worth, " Edmund replied."Idon't just conjure armor out of the air or you wouldn't be here.Every pieceis custom constructed from the base iron and for enhanced armor, which Iassume is what you want, I use customized nannites.A full suite takes nearlythree months to complete.What could you possibly offer me that would be worththree months of my precious life?""Two hundred teracredits," Dionys said promptly."What?" Talbot snapped."That's a noticeable slice of the planetary budget!There is no way you can find that sort of money!""I can get it," McCanoc replied."I have.sources.""Okay," Talbot admitted, grudgingly, "assuming you can lay your hands on it,that's a lot of credits.There's only one problem [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]