<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50995.msg2533157#msg2533157">Quote from: The Great Triangle on 09-12-2009, 20:33:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Hope my posting as Rinn isn't too hard to follow.  :-)  She's fond of using alchemy to build weapons, to compensate for her weaknesses, and makes a periodic practice of selling them for favor.  The weapons are really pretty good, although their purchase does support the Red Sept, which might just be bad in the long run.  Rinn usually doesn't offer to share her best weapons, although <em>The Scourge of God</em> is such an expensive piece of machinery it's hard to imagine that she'd have much more powerful than that.  (although rumors possibly spread by her indicate that she may have built a fleet of planes built along the same principles as the <em>Scourge</em>.)<br/><br/>Rinn has also been pretty busy lying to humans and training them to fight Dark Ones, 95% of the time under false pretenses, so that they won't be able to expose the war even if they try.  Sept mismanagement, weapons research and development, and development and exploitation of human resources are the three pillars of Rinn's political strategy.  Naturally, trying to knock out any of those three pillars would probobly fatally anger the Red Sept, although the Black Sept is powerful enough to at least get Rinn to curtail some of her operations.  <br/><br/>Much like Soviet Russia, Rinn principally comes to the bargaining table to rattle sabers, offer weapons for sale, and get an impression of what her rivals want, so she can make just enough of an adjustment to preserve political equilibrium.  She will not, however, take direct orders which oppose her political and personal operations well, because although she does not actually want war, she also will never be threatened into action.<br/><br/><br/>On another note, merely mentioning the word "miscagenation" around Rinn can send her into a berserk rage, although such an effective insult might actually pull the wind out of her sails at a high level meeting, since she has to be diplomatic.  <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>When I'm not caffeinated, my a.d.d. goes wild, so... [insert impatient smiley here] my need to pay attention to detail and post back to my partners in such a way lags. But I think I'm good today.  8-)<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=50995.msg2533193#msg2533193">Quote from: Shihong on 09-12-2009, 20:47:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm still here!  I may just be a bit slow in posting.  If you'd like, pretend that Menga leaves wordlessly to go check out the data on those files.  In the coming weeks I'll finally get a post with Luxor or something.  I'm just excruciatingly tired.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Yay! -Hugs- It's all right Shihong, I felt the same way this whole month. -grumbles about the holidays- Take your time. Rushing = muse killing. ;)