Re: Most powerful uses of a power ring?

Dan McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
>...
> No, but I also read the story, or at least part of it.  I think
> I was left wondering if the weakness was in the *head's* of the
> GL's rather than the ring itself.  If a GL thinks it has a
> particular weakness, it can't bypass it (since it's based on
> will-power).  If you present a ring and claim it has no
> weaknesses, the GL treats it accordingly. 

I think that only works if willpower is linked to gullibility.  Over 
the billion year history of the GL Corps, you'd expect to get a 
decent number of skeptics who'll believe in the yellow weakness only 
after they've tried ignoring it.  If it's based on belief, then a 
strong-willed person who thinks it's a lot of hooey should be able to 
ignore it.

There were also stories in which people ran across a ring and tried 
it out, running headlong into the yellow weakness without having been 
warned about it.  (E.g., "Yellow Fever!", summarized at 
<http://www.glcorps.org/gl-an3.html>)

Mike

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Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS
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