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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9576720" data-attributes="member: 7737">Well accccctttttually, it was:Indeed! If Carr is The Chosen One (TM), then why does Team Good Guys do such a terrible job of protecting him? Heck, they didn't even know where he was nor that he even existed, apparently: both Thayne and Perth have to study Carr's features intently to determine who he is.Also, what the heck happened to Marla (Carr's mother, for the benefit of new readers) and to Carr from the time Carr was born (in or around the city of Saven on the main continent) until they went into hiding in the shepherd's hut on Seagate Island? I honestly cannot remember if this ever gets cleared up in the books.Hahahahaha! Excellent points. It's also totally plausible that the duplicitous, chaos-loving Crypt Thing would use a weird variant of Teleport that, yes, sends Carr back to the surface from the Bhukodian vault, but also causes a year to go by in the interim because after all, Carr didn't specify when he wanted to be returned to the surface.We will learn later in this book that we had a "brief stay" at the Academy, even in this book's canon whereby we didn't study there. (It'll make more sense later. Or not.)But as you pointed out, in Carr's world, a "brief stay" could be six months.It could be one of those corrupt governmental do-nothing jobs where the applicant is not only unqualified, but not expected ever to lift a finger.Perth: "Carr, thank you so much for your years of service as 'tribal mage', wink wink nudge nudge. Here's your yearly payment. Be sure to VOTE PERTH in the next archdruid election."Carr: "You do know I have infinity money in this pouch, right?"FREE HUT is a new in-joke.(snip additional math and dates)You continue to excel at anticipating my future comedic riffs! No one is going to attend my comedy routines if all my material is stale before I even deliver it.Things you should not joke about so as not to embarrass me further:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the killing power of the Magic Missile spell</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the mating habits of [monster type redacted]</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rufyl's weight gain</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">the impossibility of subtracting 1 from 30</li> </ul>Hahahahaha! That's also definitely an in-joke now, too.This would perfectly fit the Mobius strip of bad plotting that I ranted about in the previous thread.</blockquote>

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