Into the New World - OOC - Calling NMF and Masquerade!

[Dire Lemming]

I just figured they'd give him at least a little respect when it comes to his area of expertise. But apparently the only reason they're letting him bring the creature is because they're nice people and don't want to hurt his feelings.

Thane's attitude towards Enko is a blatant display of disrespect. He's basically saying, everything you know about your area of expertise is wrong and you're foolish and immature for thinking it's right. I on the other hand with my almost total lack of knowledge on the subject know exactly what I'm talking about. Listen to me!

 

[Zurai]

Since when is Enko an expert on fey creatures that have never before been seen by anyone from Cuirlen? The closest thing you have to an expert in that category already weighed in with her opinion. Enko is certainly an expert, but his expertise lies in healing, herbalism, and possibly negotiation. Not strange unknown murderous critters.

 

[Dire Lemming]

The thing is, Thane's expertise is in hunting food. It's like a writing student trying to tell a Physics student that the space battles in his story follow the laws of physics and that he's an idiot for thinking otherwise. And Thane does think Enko is an idiot for thinking otherwise. He always speaks in a condescending manner, and refuses to argue because it's apparently not worth the trouble.

 

[Zurai]

Thane thinks everyone is an idiot - or, at least, ignorant. Possibly excepting Ryon and Artemisia, but possibly not. If you havn't noticed, he's been described as a standoffish know-it-all since before the game started. I don't know why you're taking this so personally, but it's getting old.

 

[Dire Lemming]

I'm not taking it personally anymore.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Also, hey, just because he's a jerk is no reason to sell him short. Thane is not just a hunter, remember, the man is a full on divine caster, with a familiar to boot. Really, if anyone in the party were to have experience with strange, dangerous spirits of the forest it'd probably be Thane.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Enko doesn't know that. Enko only knows Thane is a jerk of a hunter who seems to think that he knows more about spirits than any spirit talker and that they're idiots.

 

[Zurai]

Just to clarify - the grimeling isn't something Enko would automatically recognize as a spirit. Spirits don't generally make themselves manifest in the world. About the only example in living memory would be Sotera's tiny water elementals. Technically, it is a spirit, because it has the Fey creature type, but no one's really interacted with physically manifest Fey to this point in history, so it's a new thing to everyone.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Well yeah, that's why he was considering it the first non-human people we'd ever met. But everyone was insisting it was an evil spirit because it had no genitals. Then Artimisia confirmed it.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Again, remember, not everyone said it was an evil spirit.