NeoTiamat wrote:If I may inquire, why do you two think Lily is even worse than previously thought? That was likely the most light-hearted cutscene of them all.
Exactly so. Who, I ask you, maintains her coquettish sang-froid after confronting her inner demons? And, moreover, has the emotional wherewithal to twit her rescuer?
Somebody not overly burdened with conscience and who is not all that emotionally involved in her rescuers' well-being, perhaps?
Nathan of the FoS wrote:Exactly so. Who, I ask you, maintains her coquettish sang-froid after confronting her inner demons?
NeoTiamat wrote:Out of the distant flames lumbered a creature that was simply too large to be believed... It was easily the size of a church, with a dull-red carapace and claws that could snap a horse in half. The stinger-tipped tail swayed higher than a tree, its end fat with enough venom to drown in...You looked at the eight, pale eyes of the creature, and realized that no, they were not exactly eyes. They were faces. Lia's face, stamped eight times into the monstrous scorpion's head, eight faces with mad eyes, eight whispering, lunatic voices.
"Killkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkillkill..."
Rock, one post later, wrote:Lia ... sighs. "Well, this is embarrassing," she states. "So much for any claim the fiend had to subtlety. Ahem."
The wizard looks left and right throughout the room, then reports in a dry tone of voice.
So, following that same logic...
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You might also take it as a sign that Lia isn't very happy about having her flaws exposed to the world, but was at that moment unwilling to scream and/or burst into tears. We all cope with bad situations in our own way ...
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I'm just amused how Lily is considered to be without a conscience and emotionally uncaring of the rest of the Conspiracy... when the exact same behavior in Lia is a sign of restraint.
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Well, yes. Lia and Lily are, similar names notwithstanding, decidedly different personality types.
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Is taking 20 on this check OK, incidentally? My Open Lock has sucked since I rebuilt as a Scout, and I don't want to burn charges of the Gloves if I don't have to.
Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:
Kudos to Neo, Isabella, Whistler, and anyone else involved. Just perfection.
That's all the Whistler, there. We just let him off his leash.
"No, but evil is still being — Is having reason — Being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being... Like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, is reason."