<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px}</style></head><body id="compText">Whitney ponders, "We should probably avoid using certain words, if we're to avoid trouble, as well as certain skills. But, from my researches, I can safely say that those who learned ALL their skills through hard work and study are safe from any passive detection of energies. There no energies to detect unless these exotic skills are being used. However, those born with, or later acquiring, innate gifts, well, they're no different than a rare natural item or even a made item. Quite easy to detect, I would think, with a broadly enough designed item. Active detection of energies, however, may well find both the skilled AND the talented. But such active usage should be detectable, as well. <br><br>"I would think a single device that was sensitive enough to detect such a board category of passive energies as active, device, and natural energies, though, would require rather more skill to make than would be present in a land that makes such skills so illegal. I tend to wonder if the great secret behind the devices isn't some sort of hither-to unknown natural material, no matter what the official word and rumor about such devices is. Nothing else makes sense, not with the numbers that would have to exist for even spotty coverage of such a large empire. Pity we can't investigate these devices. I would love to get one to study. More importantly: to take back home."<br><br>Whitey looks to Zhou to see if his junior got the hint.<br><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 0px;">-----Original Message-----
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Kiet listens to the other party members then throws
out this little tidbit, "I think we were being followed when we went
shopping. I'm not 100% sure, but farily certain that one of the people
from around the inn was following us."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">He sighs then continues, "I also had a very
disturbing encounter with an old man I think was carrying a detector. Now,
there's no way they can detect magic on me, I left all of mine, um, at
'home'. My concern is that the detectors aren't set up to detect magic
being used, but to detect <em>magic users!"</em></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"All I know is I want out of this town as soon as
possible."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">"What kind of distraction are we going to
use? I was thinking one of Kell's large, dirty 'friends' could be
convinced to cause a ruckus near the other end of
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Thank you for your time,
Thomas O. Magann Jr.</pre>