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Re: Location of Leix
Posted By: SiliconDream =PN= (as3-1-145.HIP.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 8/3/2000 at 2:35 p.m.
In Response To: Location of Leix (Bubba)
: "Maeldun's only words on returning exhausted to Tyr
: from a long campaign in the East to find half the city
: burning after a raid by pirates from Leix were 'Show
: me the way to Leix.'"
: Have just reread the above flavour text. Is it just me or
: does Maeldun appear not to know the location of Leix?
: After all, he needs someone to show him the way. It
: could be poetic speech I suppose, but surely all
: inhabitants of Tyr would know where the place was.
: Bubba (beginning to wonder just exactly what he's
: started)
Yeah, which is a strike against the "prison colony" idea. I really have no idea why people seem so positive that Leix is a prison colony, unless there's some text I missed somewhere that comes right out and says it. Why would a prison colony have the resources to become pirates, anyway? Generally, when you establish and maintain such a colony, you try to make it next-to-impossible for the prisoners to get ships and weapons; that's kind of the point. I suppose the guards could have been distracted by or sent off to the war in the East, but it still seems pretty unlikely. You need a *lot* of ships to be able to loot and burn a big chunk of a city and escape alive.
--SiliconDream
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