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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3143899" data-attributes="member: 19990">I'm still struggling with this.  When Zaeryl left, Michael and Eternity were standing/kneeling over Private Stander.  When he next saw them, they were mounted and some distance (admittedly, not a great distance, but given the visibility...) from where Stander was laying.  I did mention that everyone was mounted and that Hulgyr had a limp soldier on his horse.  I don't see what I could have done differently, save to phrase it like: "Everybody is in a small clump in the middle of the woods.  Everyone is mounted.  Only one of the three soldiers is present; he is unconscious or dead and on the back of Hulgyr's horse, the whereabouts of the other two is not known to everyone present."  Admittedly, that would have met your concern, but it didn't seem obvious to me that it needed phrasing that way.  Again, my bad, but I don't see this as a "Ha, ha, the bed is missing and you just didn't notice" problem.  It was more subtle than that, and because it was so subtle, I do see it as something that even the mighty Zaeryl could have missed...especially with Eternity constantly buzzing in his ear that everybody needed to stop so she could see if Squatter was still alive.And in that case, I'd have either ruled that the paladin simply wasn't aware that the third orphan was in peril (and the character can beat himself up IC all he wants, but even his god likely wouldn't hold him responsible for that one), or else tried to find a way to retcon it.  I just don't see Zaeryl in the same light...and if I do, it's more like the case in which the paladin would have every reason to believe that the child was saved only to find out to his dismay that he wasn't.I suppose the concept of Zaeryl is still evolving in my mind even if it's been settled in your mind for months.  Is it your concept of Zaeryl that he never, ever makes a tactical mistake, provided that he gets good situational information?  If so, I certainly didn't understand that until the last 24 hours.  And granted, Zaeryl is not human, but that's clearly a quite superhuman ability.  I've seen some very smart, very "together" people make bigger mistakes in RL than he did in the game when under far less pressure and facing fewer distractions than he was.</blockquote>

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