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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4926426" data-attributes="member: 40961">In spoiler blocks.[SBLOCK] The one he sold to be raped: She ruled a kingdom after usurping power from the prior ruler when he lost the magical item that let him control demons.  Cugel reappeared, wearing the magic item, and impersonating the individual who rightly owned it.  There was conflict, in which Cugel wins basically everything only to lose it all again, in typical Cugel style.  She also loses everything.  They both end up banished together, and at Cugel's suggestion, they travel through a forest popularly believed to be inhabited by dangerous beasts.  In reality it is more likely that there are bandits.  He agrees to sell her to the bandits to be raped in exchange for escort through the forest, and it is implied, in exchange for them not attacking him.  She objects, obviously, and he tells her that he has a cunning plan and she just needs to play along.  In reality he has no such plan and was just shutting her up. The girl he personally rapes is the resident of a town he arrives at soon after.  There Cugel is offered a job as a watchman.  This job pays a great deal and comes with housing.  It also has an extra perk- he may pick any girl in the village as his wife, whether she agrees or not.  This is what really sells it for Cugel.  He picks the most beautiful girl he can, even though she's obviously got a lover.  She ignores him and his selection of her.  Angry about this, Cugel goes to his first evening of work, where he finds that he's been locked into his watchtower.  It turns out that the town has a curse such that it will be destroyed if ever the watchtower is unmanned, so they lock people into the tower to serve for life, or until they kill themselves.  Cugel escapes, essentially kidnaps the girl, and the town is destroyed.  He rapes her in the boat as the town is slaughtered and she sobs.  Then the boat capsizes and she dies.  After that, more wacky adventures![/SBLOCK] This is where I put the book down.</blockquote>

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