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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2373834" data-attributes="member: 16989">Here are 2 of the scenes that stood out.1.  She's a priestess of Lovitar.  She gets assigned to be the nanny of a spoiled rich girl in a distant land.  She's a Thayvian.  She's going to a land where any Arcane Spellcasters are BURNED AT THE STAKE.So, she takes the brat to the market, brat tries to run away.  When she catches up, brat yells 'Witch'.  So a whole bunch of city guard start approaching her.  What does she, a tattoed stanger that closely resemblems a Red Wizard & is outnumberd a dozen to one & is surrounded by so many people she can't run away.  She attacks the city guard.  Starts getting her butt handed to her, so decides to cast a spell (she knew about the whole wizards burned at stake thing).  What happens whe city guard sees her try to cast a spell?You got it, beats her sensless, throws her in jail, and now she's going to be executed as a witch.  The whole scene was so unbelievable.  I mean, if the author had broken his narrative to show a Dork Tower comic of Igor & Matt gaming & Matt telling him:"So, you are surronded by the city guard, they want you to surrender, what do you do?" "I cast Bull's Strength & Attack! Huzzah!""Um, remember, they kill wizards on sight here.""But I'm casting a PREISTLY Spell, it's completly different.""You think these 1st level warriors have enough ranks in spellcraft to tell the difference?"  End of 'Combat'  "Matt, that was sooo unfair, there was no way I could win that battle!"  (Sound of Matt's head banging repeatedly into the table).Later, some old guy charges a bunch of fully armed city guard with a stick.  They kill him.  It's supposed to show how 'evil' the city guard is, but it comes off as just showing how stupid the guy is.This is how the book plays out.  Well well-written, it is badly plotted.  In order for the author to get from the beginning of the book to his desired end, he has to make the characters do some really stupid & inconsitent things on a pretty regular basis.As an ironic satire of how Hack & Slahers handle a Story Heavy Campaign, it could have been quite funny.  As a work of Fantasy, it leaves much to be desired.</blockquote>

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