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[RT][HF] A Practical Guide to Evil: Book 4: Chapter 23: Recoup
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Author: u/Zayits *
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URL: https://practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/2018/06/27/chapter-23-recoup/
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Score: 78
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Created: 2018-06-27T04:01:20
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u/RynnisOne [+12] (2 hours later)
The power lies in all of them, each according to its kind.
Power isn't one thing, an arbitrary and yet somehow quantifiable force--an abstract distilled into a number by which one thing can be said to be more powerful than the others.
It's like asking "What is more powerful, the Rock, the Paper, or the Scissors."
u/None [+8] (9 hours later)
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u/hoja_nasredin [+17] Dai-Gurren Brigade (11 hours later)
it's is philosophical question. Its purpose is not obtain an answer but to make one think, ponder and understand the relations between concepts. It's is not a question to test her son but to make him think.
u/docarrol [+23] (12 hours later)
Not even that. It's is not about the son and making him think, and is probably apocryphal anyway. Who was there to write their conversation down? Why write it at all if it was a lesson for the son?
No, this is a *teaching story*; it's intent is to make the reader/listener of the story being retold in the present "think, ponder and understand the relations between concepts". Hakram even said it's one of great many "conversations with her son" stories that used to exist; it's just a framing convention for imparting the lessons there in.
u/None [+1] (14 hours later)
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u/HeWhoBringsDust [+13] (15 hours later)
To be honest, it sounded like a parable or one of Aesop’s fables. Not meant to be taken literally and the point is to impart a lesson/concept. Flows pretty well with that in mind considering how convoluted a lot of folklore and fables are
u/VortexMagus [+11] (an hour later)
I love how black is invading procer. He is throwing narrative weight on his side, because the evil army destroying bringing the good kingdom to it’s knees before a brave band of heroes rises up in last minute defiance is such a powerful trope. If he plays his invasion right, the story favors him temporarily and we have already seen how all-powerful the story is in this world.
u/leakycauldron [+6] Imperium of Man (8 hours later)
Yeah but heroes always win the Black Crusades. How does he subvert this?
u/TideofKhatanga [+10] (12 hours later)
I know at least one story where villains won the latest last Black Crusade so hard the setting needed a new edition.
u/ketura [+5] Organizer (9 hours later)
All the heroes are currently invading Callow. Either they leave him as a fox in the henhouse, or they go after him and Cat crushes the crusade.
u/melmonella [+5] Tremble, o ye mighty, for a new age is upon you (10 hours later)
To be fair, there are a lot of heroes. Like 9 near Black and another 11 near Cat. They could just split up.
u/sparr [+8] (12 hours later)
Yeah, because the good guys splitting the party is such a winning move, story-wise ;)
u/melmonella [+10] Tremble, o ye mighty, for a new age is upon you (13 hours later)
I mean. Explicitly is, with how often they mentioned "conflicting narratives" by now.
u/chaos-engine [+1] (19 hours later)
Splitting the party is only a bad move in DnD and video games. In movies there's no harm in splitting the party
u/sparr [+1] (22 hours later)
Horror movies disagree
u/chaos-engine [+2] (23 hours later)
Horror movies doesn't contain parties of heroes.
They have a different kind of party
u/Croktopus [+1] (a day later)
Even in dnd the worst part of splitting the party is that it means only half the party can play at a time
u/stevedoesIP [+1] (22 hours later)
The moment they form up he retreats his army and steps down from command, allowing Catherine to take over after she has petitioned Hassenbach.
u/Ardvarkeating101 [+13] Father of Learning (17 hours later)
“Fadila assures me I’ve been paid punctually,” Masego contributed hesitantly.
Indrani cast him a discrete look at the mention of his assistant
She jealous
u/CouteauBleu [+5] We are the Empire. (a day later)
10 years later, Fadila is in control of Masego's household, finances, political appointments, interior decoration and social life...
... until she betrays him for no reason, gets killed and has her soul put into a torture gem.
u/C_Densem [+11] LessWrong (than usual) (an hour later)
Man, what's Kilian been up to? Is she still Senior Mage?
u/TwoxMachina [+11] (11 hours later)
Power is Force * Velocity.
u/d3nzil [+13] (13 hours later)
That sounds more like goblin answer to the riddle...
u/leakycauldron [+28] Imperium of Man (57 minutes later)
The answer to the riddle of power is socialism. Seize the means of production.
Sounds like Warlord believed power springs from the masses, which works with what we know so far - cultures make stories, stories crystallise into Stories (through repetition? Proliferance? Faith?), people that fit those Stories gain power.
u/melmonella [+16] Tremble, o ye mighty, for a new age is upon you (8 hours later)
The answer to the riddle of power is socialism
Rather explains why capitalistic Miezans won then, doesn't it.
u/TaltosDreamer [+5] (an hour later)
The thieving reminds me of my old D&D players.
u/serge_cell [+6] (2 hours later)
Answer to riddle is probably belief
Especially considering The Riddle of Steel
u/rabotat [+1] (2 days later)
Two things from Game of thrones come to mind. The first is Varys' riddle:
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me – who lives and who dies?”
The answer he gives is that power lies where we believe it lies.
The second is in this scene
u/WalterTFD [+5] (13 hours later)
GoT answers this riddle, I think. This is just Tyrion's riddle all over again, and the answer is the same. Power lies where people believe it lies.