[LMB] Legacy: a question (contains spoilers)

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Scott Raun" <sraun at fireopal.org>
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:48:52PM -0400, Elizabeth McCoy wrote:
>> At 1:50 PM -0500 7/9/07, Scott Raun wrote:
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>> >I do wonder what happens to a kid who doesn't have the talent for making 
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>> >the range for patrolling?
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>> Plunkin-growing. Lots and lots of plunkin-growing. King of the Plunkins.
>> Plunk... plunk... plunk...
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>  <snip>
> I can't help but believe that they'd be, to some greater or lesser
> extent, second-class citizens.  I do wonder just how stongly
> inheritable groundsense is - is it wildly variable like IQ, or is it
> more like melanin (or lack thereof)?
>

they might be like adults in the darkover series with no psychic talent - 
extremely resentful that hteir whole life is secondary, they are important 
only for the children they will engender.  and if they don't/can't have 
children!  oh, dear.

ziviya

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