and another out of order . . . well, you get the idea

peke wrote:Why is everyone assuming something along the lines of "big fracking explosion" or "slaughterhouse a la Mab"?

Here's a thought: instead of that, imagine a Schuelerite arriving at St. Thyrmyn's for some business and is not challenged at the gate. He enters and finds NO ONE at all. No inquisitors, no prisoners, no signs of a struggle, the torches lit and stew bubbling in the kitchen. Everything in perfect order, save the complete absence of people.

Kabooms are easy to understand (they're kabooms). Slaughters are easy to understand (put pointy end inside meatbag). But for psychological warfare, this kind of thing that cannot be explained and leaves such uncertainty can be just what the doctor ordered.

Comments, anyone?

Dauntless wrote:

peke wrote:Why is everyone assuming something along the lines of "big fracking explosion" or "slaughterhouse a la Mab"?

Here's a thought: instead of that, imagine a Schuelerite arriving at St. Thyrmyn's for some business and is not challenged at the gate. He enters and finds NO ONE at all. No inquisitors, no prisoners, no signs of a struggle, the torches lit and stew bubbling in the kitchen. Everything in perfect order, save the complete absence of people.

Kabooms are easy to understand (they're kabooms). Slaughters are easy to understand (put pointy end inside meatbag). But for psychological warfare, this kind of thing that cannot be explained and leaves such uncertainty can be just what the doctor ordered.

Comments, anyone?

i seem to recall someone else suggesting this and being shot down by RFC.

Dauntless wrote:

peke wrote:Why is everyone assuming something along the lines of "big fracking explosion" or "slaughterhouse a la Mab"?

Here's a thought: instead of that, imagine a Schuelerite arriving at St. Thyrmyn's for some business and is not challenged at the gate. He enters and finds NO ONE at all. No inquisitors, no prisoners, no signs of a struggle, the torches lit and stew bubbling in the kitchen. Everything in perfect order, save the complete absence of people.

Kabooms are easy to understand (they're kabooms). Slaughters are easy to understand (put pointy end inside meatbag). But for psychological warfare, this kind of thing that cannot be explained and leaves such uncertainty can be just what the doctor ordered.

Comments, anyone?

i seem to recall someone else suggesting this and being shot down by RFC.

peke wrote:Damn, must have missed that one.

runsforcelery wrote:

dobriennm wrote:
Okay, as others have said Duckk really nailed the important part - Rayno isn't just panicking - he's freaking out

So, some sort of knockout gas, nanites to knock people out, basically render everyone unconscious. Then land an air lorry or assault shuttle, spirit EVERYONE! away. Leaving no blood or explosions or mayhem behind.

That would freak out anyone. Safehold doesn't seem to have ghost stories (or at least not revealed to by the author). Knowing this has to involve sejins/demons, it reveals a capability never shown before on Safehold.

So no mayhem, dead bodies, explosions, just a mysteriously empty prison and NO non-divine explanations possible.

Peter2 wrote: So no mayhem, dead bodies, explosions, just a mysteriously empty prison and NO non-divine explanations possible.

To which RFC replied


Nope.


OK, but it's a pity. I remember a poem I read at school many years ago about the mysterious disappearance of the 3 lighthouse keepers on Flannan Isle. IIRC (it was a long time ago!), there are few lines that go:

". . . but of three men's fate we could find no trace
Of any kind, in any place,
Save a door ajar,
An untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair."

It sent shivers down my spine.
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