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[DC][HF] Shadows of the Limelight, Ch 18: The Rule of Three • /r/ShadowsOfTheLimelight
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Author: u/alexanderwales Time flies like an arrow*
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Score: 29
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Created: 2015-08-25T02:00:28
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u/gossypiboma [+6] (10 hours later)
I might be gullible for believing the stories about Welexi, but this felt out of character for him.
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+8] Mouse Army (10 hours later)
Yeah me too at first... But remember, rule of three, Welexi thinks in stories and is in heavy denial about his methods and morals... So not too far.
u/rational_rodeo [+7] (16 hours later)
I'm wondering how many of the other stories that were relayed by Wealwood in (IIRC) chapter four were true. Or stuff sung by the Blood Bard.
u/None [+5] (14 hours later)
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u/gossypiboma [+5] (15 hours later)
By omission, not this. This is a new side of him.
u/Roxolan [+5] Head of antimemetiWalmart senior assistant manager (a day later)
When Welexi slipped Dominic’s hand inside the artifact, it sounded a single loud tone. Dominic’s shadow armor disappeared in an instant [...]
“Fascinating,” said Welexi. He held the artifact high, looking it over. There was no visible change in it. Without any seeming forethought, Welexi stuck his own hand in the mouth of the artifact.
So, Welexi knew how the artifact worked.
You'd have to be crazy to confidently apply on yourself the same procedure that just stole a guy's power, hoping that doing the same thing twice produces different results. This is not how a level 1 intelligent character treats an unknown, horribly dangerous ancient artifact, and I trust /u/alexanderwales to keep his characters level 1 intelligent.
And (using the outside view) if anyone was crazy enough to do silly things with unknown, horribly dangerous ancient artifacts, it should usually not result in them getting exactly what they want.
I can only hope that the other characters have noticed this too.
u/protagnostic [+4] (2 hours later)
WHAT
u/protagnostic [+3] (2 hours later)
BUT
u/protagnostic [+3] (2 hours later)
WHY
u/protagnostic [+5] (2 hours later)
If you were another author, I might suspect a trick: That Spoilers for this chapter
But I remember spoilers for Metropolitan Man, and now I cannot be so sure.
u/eltegid [+5] (6 hours later)
It still makes a lot of sense, given the evidence, that Vidre
u/SvalbardCaretaker [+5] Mouse Army (10 hours later)
My tip is glas fibre to slow the fall.
u/protagnostic [+4] (14 hours later)
I want that to be true, and therefore I'm suspicious of any reasoning that seems to point toward that conclusion.