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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Owner of a Thirsty Heart
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 07:25:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 07:25:00 1984
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Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher    Oct 24 01:25:00 1984

Following are a few excerpts, hopefully of general interest,
excerpted from correspondence concerning The Thirsty Heart.
Names have been removed pending notification of next of kin. :-)
Their comments are indented by a tab, my replies are not indented.
The opinions are sometimes expressed strongly, but no flaming
was intended on either side.  Further comments are invited, as
always.

	Whether to die or to be corrupted?  He's already corrupted if
	you asked me, running around with uruks, leading an orcish
	army, how corrupt can you get?

...Garret sees nothing wrong with giving orcs the same rights as
all creatures, or overthrowing the genocidal human overlords, but he
doesn't care for the idea of drinking the blood of his fellow elves,
especially not Dani's.  And he likes even less the idea that the heart
may continue to corrupt him further.

	I really wonder whether you can make it to the Elven village
	in one day's time anyway.  You might as well have Garret
	butcher his sister, it would seem to be the typical action one
	would take in that situation; One shouldn't lightly take on an
	evil artifact.

You seem to be under the impression that Garret is already evil, or
intends to or wants to be.  Such is not the case.  Garret considers
nothing (including his own life) more important than Dani's
well-being.  He could use the Heart to further their aims, but isn't
that what he'd think if he *was* becoming evil?  Once you decide the
ends justify the means, where do you draw the line on the means?  He
knows he could kill himself now, preferably in a way that would make
the heart very difficult to retrieve.  But would it be better to hold
out in the hope that the heart could be removed, or controlled?  Or is
that just the corruption speaking?  Or if he loses heart (sorry) and
kills himself, isn't that really a victory for the heart instead?

	It occurs to me that the real pity is that one of the real
	uruks didn't pick up the Heart, then he would have had two
	days to reach the elven village.  |-)

The uruks' player said if Cresslor the Uruk had used the heart he
would have run over the mountains (never resting, seeing in the
dark) to the Elven Woods and become the Boogeyman.  I rather like
the idea myself.

Carl
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