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Added 2022-09-21 03:37:34 +0000 UTCRuck's always enjoyed his bagged lunches. Queen Sonorie did know that the Black Tongues were bringing Roger - she mentioned it earlier to the Mayor - but she kind of assumed they'd kindly deposit him somewhere quiet and safe and not here naked and drooling on the floor. Rude snek.
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I'll never stop feeling sorry for poor Roger. What a tragic life (and he's got some heavy competition in this story!).
2022-12-09 05:01:30 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. An efheby doesn't pore through every day of a life; they don't have the interest or the time. They seek out the meat, using their victim as a doped-up guide to lead them there.
Ashley
2022-09-21 15:28:42 +0000 UTCRoger’s also been in Cresce these last fifteen years. I don’t think Efheby get to see EVERYTHING, when you read the story of Bastion meeting Evelyn’s Five-Eyes, she has to go searching for specific memories. It’s probable that Ruck only caught a glimpse of all these memories because they were unimportant to him, so he didn’t linger on them for long. He probably just overlooked the implication of the Tirnasdays when he saw them because they’re in the memories of just about anyone he’s eaten, and it’s probably dull, repetitive, uninteresting. Sort of like what happens when you’ve reread the same essay through ten drafts and you’ve overlooked a spicy line that got slipped in…
L Anon
2022-09-21 15:17:01 +0000 UTCThat is true, Ruck could have dug deeper into Roger's memories and learned about the changed sacrifice there. But I thought it was more interesting to have him learn via conversation with the characters on the page. More active, more character-building, you know?
Ashley
2022-09-21 15:05:04 +0000 UTCWait, something is amiss. Ruck is surprised to learn that there is no more bloody sacrifices on Tirnasday, but also he mentions on this very page that he saw Roger at one through his memories. So he should obviously know this already. Or is Roger actually still pretty old by human standards, old enough for the tradition to be bloody? I though he was supposed to be quite young. Or is Aldish sacrificial tradition still a Metal Album cover?
Flyfly
2022-09-21 14:11:56 +0000 UTC
