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Breaking All Barriers 083
└ posted on Monday, 25 March 2024, by Novil
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It was too bad that Dyson wasn’t the superwizard behind it all. Would it have been too predictable for Dyson to have been a super-wizard like Lilly? The one who cast the spherical maze spell, and the memory spell? The book had to have been in Greendale for some reason. And even if it was there for only a week, there’s a lot of people who take their time browsing, maybe jot a few notes. “Dyson’s Spherical Maze spell” was just a red herring.
The gang doesn’t know what barrier to break, nor do they know of any target high-value enough. Most people but up barriers for really good reasons. No one profits by breaking all the dams, for example. This could have taken the story to dragon territory.
Vicious Sand wrote:
Actually, that sounds like good plan for terrorists attack.
Vicious Sand wrote:
I wonder if this is their academic background showing through: They just spent countless years doing things for the sake of learning how to do them; culminating in an exam where they destroyed a whole range of expensive-looking things (golems appear to take a fair bit of effort to make…) and shields and whatnot in order to graduate.
That habit of “learning how to do it” being sufficient justification for doing something is one of the main justifications I can think of for both this “There are shields so I must break them” attitude, as well as the earlier “A rare book just happened to be in the bookstore, I must be meant to learn its contents” thought process.
Zitchas wrote:
That habit of “learning how to do it” being sufficient justification for doing something is one of the main justifications I can think of for both this “There are shields so I must break them” attitude, as well as the earlier “A rare book just happened to be in the bookstore, I must be meant to learn its contents” thought process.
Ah, “The world is set up/exists for my benefit” outlook. I don’t think the characters have that. They have enough humility, as seen way back in things like talking about future jobs, and taking third down the line sort of jobs instead of the ‘main’ ones. Plus they’re in a story gap where they know they’re being hunted, but don’t know that it’s by a major political power as well as the police.
… oh, and, by the way, Novil:
Thanks for obviously fixing the „overlay issue“ when the ad display window beneath the comments is actually empty; seems not to happen anymore lately 🙂