“IF Bozzok raises you, tell him the deal is off. I’m not paying him one copper piece ever again, NOT ONE. And I’ll kill anyone he sends after me.”
I interpreted, “Ever again”, as indicating that Cecilia did arrange for a substantial payment which Haley in fact coughed up. And that Haley certainly wasn’t going to pay for her nemesis’ resurrection. Detailed cross checking might prove me wrong though.
How did you interpret “the deal is off” though?
The deal is off if she (Crystal) is raised from the dead.
Well, technically, she’s not. Actually raising involves returning her to living, breathing life, not turning her into a Frankenstein’s monster.
Huh, I didn’t interpret it that way at all. I saw her “IF Bozzok raises you” as a counter to Crystal’s saying “When Bozzok raises me.” That Haley was declaring that the deal was off regardless, and just telling Crystal to pass it on to Bozzok if he actually bothered to raise her.
As for the rest, I had originally interpreted the exchange as Haley reneging on the deal in its entirety, taking her gold and leaving. Now that Bozzok has explicitly stated that he got money from Haley, I’m thinking that they took what she had when Celia made the original deal, and when Haley killed Crystal she was once again severing her ties to the guild along with her obligation to give them a cut of her loot. Haley telling Crystal to pass it on to Bozzok was half a notch above a “when you get to Hell, tell them Haley sent you.”
Even if flesh golem Crystal could tell Bozzok any useful information, my guess is that he figured out Haley’s message as soon as he saw Crystal’s corpse.
No, I think the deal is off no matter what - and if Bozzok raises Crystal she can tell him so. (It would be difficult otherwise.)
Well, that makes sense.
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New post. 975
“Reframing the narrative.”
I’ll have to remember that one the next time I get a Warning.
Why weren’t the gnomes fleeing for their lives from the eldritch abomination in question?
They were, but with those short little legs, it takes a while.
They’re NPC’s. Plot fodder.
Cute adorable plot fodder. Where’s the sexy shoeless god of war when we need him? When’s he going to break out the mini dino in his pocket and strike a rock album cover on Crystals ass?
So if Crystal Golem can force Haley to land by murdering gnomes, why not force her to stand and fight by murdering gnomes?
I’m not sure Crystal is capable of making that connection. It struck me as just a temper tantrum that happened to have the desired effect. Her focus is Haley, and she’s going to lumber towards her like the Juggernaut if she has the chance.
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.” - Cicero
FrankenCrystal is doing pretty well when she rises to the level of stupid. Mostly she operates on command and rage.
As long as the thread is currently active.
I picked up the latest book a couple of days ago and reread the current arc. I stand by an earlier prediction I’ve made - Roy is going to face consequences because of concealing Belkar’s prophecy. Yukyuk was a foreshadowing of this. At some point Roy is going to be confronted with the realization that what he is doing is immoral.
Speaking of Roy and consequences, Burlew explicitly says that Roy will be dealing with consequences in the future for destroying Girard’s Gate. No details, of course, on where or when this will happen or what those consequences will be.
Burlew also explained one of his previous cryptic hints about future plot points. In his last book, Burlew said that the next book would have somebody drinking a beverage. It was said in a joking manner as if it was a prediction of a trivial event. But a lot of people (including me) felt that Burlew was cunningly predicting an important future event in an off-handed manner. So every time a character drank something, we searched for a hidden meaning.
It turns out we were right. The beverage drinking was a major event. But many readers (again including me) missed it when it happened. Burlew came clean and explained that the beverage drinking scene he had predicted in his previous book was Malack vampirizing Durkon.
So spending the last N years on a quest to save the world isn’t dealing with the consequences?
Is it me, or is there a grey coloring the area around the golem?
Does this indicate some kind of aura, or protection spell?
The last N years? The entire story has been set within the span of two years. And Roy destroyed the gate four days ago (in story time).