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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 111438" data-attributes="member: 1025">Right. The first reason you almost never hear about Cadrienne striking a blow in combat is that she was almost always preoccupied with support staff duties: enhancing other people's attacks, healing the wounded, etc. (unless she was spending the round entangled in Tao's bolas. For some reason every time Tao fumbled, those @#$#$%@ bolas homed in on Cadrienne like a pair of toddlers looking for their mama during a thundershower.) She liked helping her party members more than she liked hurting things. Also, in this episode she finally acquired a magical weapon (the +3 flail), and at last had a decent weapon to wade into melee with.The other main reason you hardly hear about her is that these notes are Arcade's and he had a blind spot concerning Cadrienne you could herd Leviathans through.She'd had a crush on him since the first meeting at the Manticore, and do you ever see him mention it? Noooooo. But note his deliberate attempts to squash any other romantic interest she ever has. Sigh.The metagame thing about her getting her memory wiped was that I had only been able to play her intermittently up to this point. At about this time, I started being able to attend sessions on a regular basis, and it was getting really awkward that there was all this stuff that she was present for that I had missed and I had to keep asking to be clued in.The in-game reason was that she was starting to get the idea that the thing with Arcade was hopeless, and she was hoping that a fresh start would help her get over him and get on with things.Well, either that, or her attempt to give herself a lawful makeover, get organized, and be a stronger party member was a pathetic attempt to get his attention one more time. Note that he doesn't even mention the spiffy new robes, and that fact that she'd changed her hairstyle. Some people, you can't smack sensible with a lute, a juggling ball, a set of bolas, and whole hod full of holy bricks upside the head.</blockquote>

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