: The Deceiver placed Alric in the containment field
: because Balor wasn't supposed to know the Deceiver
: interrogated Alric. If Balor interrogated Alric, why
: would he allow such an easy rescue (5 men, one a
: J-man? C'mon!)?
You still haven't answered my objection. If, as you theorize, the Deceiver captured Alric on his own initiative (which he did if Balor didn't know), why the heck couldn't he just let him go after feeding him the info; alternatively, why did he have to capture Alric in the first place? Couldn't he just meet him out there, tell Alric that he hated Balor too, and tell Alric how to defeat the Fallen Lords (kill Balor)? Why the elaborate set up?
:Wouldn't he make sure such a valuable
: enemy was guarded or dragged back to his own fortress?
: Plus, why would Balor interrogate Alric? What information
: could he possibly hope to attain? He wasn't interested
: in political manuevers and he must have known Alric
: would never give up any military plans. It seems a
: waste that Balor would come all the way to the edge of
: the Cloudspine, talk with him, leave and then let him
: out for rescue.
Obviously, in order to make the game, compromises had to be made. As in the case of the Great Devoid, it's silly to assume that just because you can win, it's what the Fallen Lords meant to happen. As for why you don't see Balor, why you can win, etc. The whole point of "The Five Champions" is that it was a risky and unconventional plan. Balor probably expected the rest of the Nine to send a huge army over the Cloudspine to rescue Alric. I'll bet that Balor probably went to the Cloudspine himself along with the vast majority of his army in order to preempt what he thought was an imminent attack. What he didn't forsee was that a few supermen would be dropped behind enemy lines, and that Alric would escape without having to cross back over the Cloudspine. It's the surprise factor that explains your success in rescuing Alric.
: Chris
