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Re: READ THIS, NOT BELOW (I hit "POST" b
Posted By: Chris t' Crappy (39.mercerville-41-42rs.nj.dial-access.att.net)
Date: 1/9/2000 at 4:47 p.m.
In Response To: Re: READ THIS, NOT BELOW (I hit "POST" b (Charon)
: I've gotten to the point where I think most of the debate
: is irrelevant. All I want to point out is this: if the
: D's intention has been to ensure the success of the
: Cath Bruig, rather than disguise himself in front of
: Alric, he would have simply told him, straight off,
: "I am an avatara who has been bound to serve
: Balor, but, if you kill him, I can help you." For
: various reasons (including the fact that Alric thought
: it was Balor), this isn't what happened. This by
: itself weights heavily against your theory.
Well, as you may have noticed, I sropped the cloaking theory awhile back. While its a possiblity, we were arguing the Deceiver's intentions, which was sparked by your belief that the D wanted to rule the Dark.
Plus, as you had said earlier, if the D suited up as Balor and everyone could see this and questions would be raised such as" How si it that there are two Balors?" then wouldn't others see the D telling Alric his plan to overthrow Balor? Letting the info slip is a fool-proof way of doing this and he can't be blamed for mutiny.
: This leaves you with the one piece of
: "evidence" that you've had from the
: beginning--the unlikely rescue. For some reason, you
: are intent on labeling "The Last Battle" as
: "a special case." Look, a perfectly logical
: Balor would have seen something was fishy in Alric's
: arrival with nothing but a battle standard and a
: handful of men.
: Why is it that the only way to beat Balor is to play on
: his emotions? Isn't it possible to outsmart him?
: That's just what the ballooning is...an unconventional
: military tactic, yet you write off the idea that Balor
: could have forseen this. Remember, it's even possible
: that he doesn't know of the existence of these
: balloons..you disagree, saying he's been around for
: fifteen years, but there's no evidence that he's done
: enough fighting with the dwarves to have seen one.
Balor has been around for over a hundred years, not 15. The Great War is not the span of his lifetime.
Also, the Last Battle is a special case. Balor is not human, he's a devine being bent on destruction. He won't make tactical mistakes but when confronted with something that still is important to him through another lifetime, he will react with rage and contempt for whomever raises the past.
: You also bring up one point--the enemies aren't
: programmed to go after Alric. It's a good point, but
: it hardly matters. If all your guys die, you get a
: post-game screen showing a dead Alric. This wasn't
: natural causes--he sure does seem to know what he's
: doing and how to escape in "Out of the
: Barrier," so it's not like he died of thirst
: while wandering around aimlessly. He's dead because
: the Dark killed him. Most likely, the programmers
: decided to have the Dark target only the Champions to
: make it a little easier on the game-player.
Of course, but it still stands that Alric was not attacked at all. The intention was not to kill him.
Chris
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