[LMB] SP: TSK: Beguilement Chapter 3

[Tzivia Adler]

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>> <viewpoint switch> dag realizes that fawn is  a malice-magnet, being
>> pregnant.  therefore he wants to tuck her away, all by herself, with no
>> protection whatsoever.   in case of possible danger, she should just hide
>> until she figures out they are ok.  this is supposed to be enough
>> protection.
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> You are the second person to make fun of Dag for this decision

i must have missed the first one, i dont remember any chapter 3 at all.

> disagree with this judement.  Dag is juggling several important tasks
> here, and finding the malice is a higher priority than her safety.

oh, from dag's point of view he's doing exactly the right thing, but i am 
over-identifying with fawn, being in much the same condition myself.  so as 
far as i 'm concerned, she's an inexperienced, knocked-up gal who's just 
been abandoned by another guy she thought she liked. feh.  guys are all 
worthless, they're off being heroes when she needs her hero near to hand.

as to higher priority, his injured partner established that dag was 
over-protective of his female partners, and wouln't be getting any more of 
them.  which must be why he did't just pack fawn onto the horse and send her 
on her way in the first place.

> Groundsense is a limited range ability, so Dag leaving Fawn somewhere
> that has already been searched by the malice is a reasonably safe
> risk, not an insanely stupid move.
>
that's true.  he first thought that there would be people there, and they 
could protect her from bandits but not particularly from mud-men or a 
malice.
>
> Yes, Fawn should have hid in the cellar, but that wouldn't have saved
> her from the mud men, just from regular bandits returning to a sacked
> farm for no apparent reason.  I do cut her some slack for having had a
> really bad day and having absolutely no experience in hiding from
> major bad guys.
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fawn doesn't know about mud-men yet, or did i miss something? as far as she 
knows she was taken by a young bandit and a simpleton bandit.  the cellar 
would help then, but she was, agreed, too tired to think about it.

> I think there is a difference between letting characters guess wrong
> and having them behave in plot-forcing ways.  I see Dag stashing Fawn
> somewhere where he expects humans to come before more mud-men as the
> former, not the latter.
>
very likely.  i'm still annoyed at him.  <sigh> its not his fault the 
lakewalkers are all understaffed, and he has no one to split the task with.

> For arguments sake, would would have been the smart thing for Dag to
> do?  Abandon the hunt for the Malice and instead take Fawn all the way
> back to Glassforge?  Which would mean giving the Malice a lot more
> warning before it could be attacked.
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> Beth Mitcham
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hmmm. i don't much see things from his point of view but really, what could 
one underslept patroller do on his own?  even if he had both hands. dag 
compensates for well enough that his patroll leader doesn't expect less of 
him, so i assume he can do -something-, but how much?  he knows the malice 
is there, all he plans to do is scout for more details before going back to 
glassforge anyhow.  being fawn-centric, i don't think the details are 
imprtant enogh to walk out on her.

for argumetns sake - he could take her to glassforge, tell the patrol that 
the malice is laired that-a-way, and take a bunch of people to help kill it.

ziviya, planning to do chpater 4 tomorrow

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