because he knew Vila would appeal to Egrorian, who seems to 'go for' slight-built people with big eyes, of either sex. Though how Avon knew that... hmmm... must have been in some security files accessed by Orac I guess. Anyway, it worked didn't it?

Now I hadn't thought of that. I can see Avon trying that actually.

Wow, a good structural symmetry that I never noticed before (everyone else probably thinking - call yourself an obsessive, and you missed that).

;-) Well I that thinking ot myself after I wrote it "You are thinking far too much about this"

This is an endlessly interesting discussion for me

It's one of my favourite episodes.

I liked the input on the psychology of hiding. The first time I played paintball I spent 10 minutes hiding safely in a burned out range rover, then thought 'sod this' and went running towards the guns, hmmm, well towards the little blobs of paint anyway, which isn't quite so impressive.

Depends what mood I'm in when I play in the castle. I tend to go for sneaky hiding palces more often than not though.

Leia