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Re: The Deceiver and Alric (continued from below)
Posted By: Chris t' Crappy (112.mercerville-43-44rs.nj.dial-access.att.net)
Date: 1/6/2000 at 6:04 p.m.
In Response To: Re: The Deceiver and Alric (continued from below) (Charon)
: The reprinted text is by Chris, from the thread that got
: too long.
: I won't respond to whether or not the Deceiver is chummy
: with Alric, or whatever. My opinion is just that it
: really was Balor who captured Alric. The problem with
: Chris's two theories is that, in each case, the
: Deceiver could just have chosen to personally meet
: with Alric and give him false info or, alternatively,
: let him go after capturing him. Chris says that the
: Deceiver captured Alric on his own initiative, that
: Balor had no idea this was going on. He also responds
: to the idea that the Deceiver could have just met with
: Alric instead of holding him captive: OK...so the
: Deceiver CAN secretly mobilize an army (we're talkin
: two levels' worth of units, from "The Five
: Champions" and "Out of the Barrier") to
: capture and hold an Avatara, without Balor
: knowing...but he CAN'T secretly meet in person with
: Alric to give him false information. See the problem
: here?
: Also, the whole problem with the theory is that, if the
: Deceiver wanted the Nine to use his false info, Alric
: would have had to escape alive. Yet we see all the
: enemies in "Five Champs" and "Out of
: the Barrier" trying to kill you and, if your guys
: die, we get a defeat seen showing Alric's dessicated
: corpse.
: Chris responds that the Deceiver MUST have been Alric's
: captor because if it had been Balor, it wouldn't have
: been so "easy" to escape—-there would have
: been more people guarding Alric.
: First, there is a shade ("Out of the Barrier").
: Second, you fail to address the theory I offer. Balor
: probably expected an attack over the Cloudspine. He
: was probably waiting there with his army the whole
: time, far west of where Alric actually was. By waiting
: on top of the mountain, he gets the ultimate height
: advantage. Why let the Light cross the mountain, their
: greatest obstacle? Military strategy would dictate not
: that you let the enemy get as close to their target as
: is possible, but rather preempt the attack.
: Also, Balor just may not have forseen something like
: paratroops...it might be unprecedented, he just may
: not be familiar with Dwarven technology (he's been out
: of the picture for a thousand years), he may just not
: have been thinking, he may have been overconfident.
: Also, you're making lots of assumptions as to what an
: appropriate guard force is. We don't know to what
: extent the resources of the Dark exist...and we do
: know that the makers of Myth had to make it possible
: to win. Isn't it possible to say that the Dark tried
: to prevent your rescue of Alric, but, against all
: odds, you triumphed through trickery? (i.e., sending
: in a couple commandos instead of a full army). Aren't
: we getting into the same argument that we did over the
: Great Devoid? I hate to sound repetitive, but just
: because the makers of Myth make it possible for you to
: win doesn't mean that they were attempting to
: communicate to you that the Dark is letting you win.
: Let's face it, the entire storyline of Myth is the
: Light triumphing against all odds, in their darkest
: hour—not because the Dark has a death wish, but
: because you're one lucky bastard.
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