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<blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 1755779" data-attributes="member: 1196">I always thought an author could have fun with this plot by twisting it so that:&nbsp; 1. The young orphan and the ditzy old man turn out to be a decoy so the bad guys will concentrate on trying to find and kill them while the competent folks half a continent away actually do the stuff that sets things right.&nbsp; Neither knows they're a decoy.&nbsp; The powers that be don't care because, hey, who is going to miss one orphan and a half-senile old man, right?&nbsp; OR2. The young orphan is totally unimportant.&nbsp; He accidentally made one of the bad guys mad and now the bad guy wants to kill him.&nbsp; The &quot;good&quot; guys drag him along because, well, someone has to rub down the horses, fetch firewood and generally do the menial stuff and they certainly don't want to do it themselves.&nbsp; He doesn't have to go.&nbsp; He can take his chances with the bad guy if he really wants....&nbsp; Tell the story from his POV as the more or less innocent and uninvolved bystander basically watching all this stuff from the sidelines and noticing the foibles of both the bad guys AND the good guys.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MaxKaladin, post: 1755779, member: 1196"] I always thought an author could have fun with this plot by twisting it so that: 1. The young orphan and the ditzy old man turn out to be a decoy so the bad guys will concentrate on trying to find and kill them while the competent folks half a continent away actually do the stuff that sets things right. Neither knows they're a decoy. The powers that be don't care because, hey, who is going to miss one orphan and a half-senile old man, right? OR 2. The young orphan is totally unimportant. He accidentally made one of the bad guys mad and now the bad guy wants to kill him. The "good" guys drag him along because, well, someone has to rub down the horses, fetch firewood and generally do the menial stuff and they certainly don't want to do it themselves. He doesn't [I]have[/I] to go. He can take his chances with the bad guy if he really wants.... Tell the story from his POV as the more or less innocent and uninvolved bystander basically watching all this stuff from the sidelines and noticing the foibles of both the bad guys AND the good guys. [/QUOTE]

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