Nifty, but in ref to an issue brough up a while ago - could you have your character *not* know the thionite/broadleaf connection at the beginning of the conversation? He can certainly know the user-end details about Thionite (heck, at this point, there are a fair numebr of 'Dane police forces that know the user-end details of Thionite - it's not a secret), and the fact that they want him to make it easier to produce would certainly set him off, so it's not like it'll take a major rewrite, but I just don't see any decent justification for him knowing its origin prior to this. After all, as was pointed out earlier, Mr Morden (who is pretty much a Contacts-and-social-monkey type) was surprised as hell to find out *at* the con, and *he* found out from a 'Dane government offical who was still keeping pretty quiet about it.
For that matter, the original information that "Thionite comes from Venus" might have *come* from this interaction, if the likely info distribution channels were slow enough and at least one of them pointed dirtside.
For that matter, the original information that "Thionite comes from Venus" might have *come* from this interaction, if the likely info distribution channels were slow enough and at least one of them pointed dirtside.