Snippet #15

Julia Minor wrote:Interesting hints about Delthak's contingency plans. I wonder if the inner circle's plot to get Harchong to industrialize involves their capture of Charisian equipment/manuals "before they can be destroyed"? (Followed by Cayleb reimbursing Delthak for his losses, of course.)

isaac_newton wrote:

Julia Minor wrote:Interesting hints about Delthak's contingency plans. I wonder if the inner circle's plot to get Harchong to industrialize involves their capture of Charisian equipment/manuals "before they can be destroyed"? (Followed by Cayleb reimbursing Delthak for his losses, of course.)

Hopefully Zhyou-Zhwo will settle for just capturing the equipment. We already know from earlier books that Harchong has enslaved workers along with their serfs; if he decides to chain the Charisian contingent to the machines to make sure they keep working it would get very ugly.

I would have thought that what happened to Desnair and then Dohlar would have been a very salutary lesson not to lay hands on Charisian citizens!

PalmerSperry wrote:

Julia Minor wrote:Interesting hints about Delthak's contingency plans. I wonder if the inner circle's plot to get Harchong to industrialize involves their capture of Charisian equipment/manuals "before they can be destroyed"? (Followed by Cayleb reimbursing Delthak for his losses, of course.)

Bonus points if they can arrange things so that it seems they attempted to destroy the manuals where prevented from doing so previously? The “lucky recipients” will be less likely to realise they’re doing what the inner circle wants, and will also have to engage their brains in order to fill in the blanks (which is also of course something the inner circle wants to encourage!).

Rogue10 wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like we are missing the header information for this snippit? It doesn't seem to follow directly on from the last one...or maybe it does? I guess they are still in the same city.

Joat42 wrote:

Rogue10 wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like we are missing the header information for this snippit? It doesn't seem to follow directly on from the last one...or maybe it does? I guess they are still in the same city.

RFC may have missed the beginning of the foundry scene when snippeting (sp?), or he may have cut out spoilers.

The snippets aren't guaranteed to be complete.

Joat42 wrote:

Rogue10 wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like we are missing the header information for this snippit? It doesn't seem to follow directly on from the last one...or maybe it does? I guess they are still in the same city.

RFC may have missed the beginning of the foundry scene when snippeting (sp?), or he may have cut out spoilers.

The snippets aren't guaranteed to be complete.

isaac_newton wrote:

julia_minor wrote:
Hopefully Zhyou-Zhwo will settle for just capturing the equipment. We already know from earlier books that Harchong has enslaved workers along with their serfs; if he decides to chain the Charisian contingent to the machines to make sure they keep working it would get very ugly.

I would have thought that what happened to Desnair and then Dohlar would have been a very salutary lesson not to lay hands on Charisian citizens!

Julia Minor wrote:

isaac_newton wrote:SNIP
I would have thought that what happened to Desnair and then Dohlar would have been a very salutary lesson not to lay hands on Charisian citizens!

Same here, but there's obviously something rotten in the Empire of Harchong (with apologies to W. Shakespeare). The last snippet included Duke Summer Flowers making a power grab in the imperial council by pushing the anti-Charis button, and this one confirmed that he's shooting himself in the foot by doing so. Without knowing just what he's up to, I'm not prepared to eliminate any possible action he might take. And even if Summer Flowers wouldn't go that far, Zhyou-Zhwo might out of simple hatred.

Joat42 wrote:

Rogue10 wrote:Is it just me, or does it seem like we are missing the header information for this snippit? It doesn't seem to follow directly on from the last one...or maybe it does? I guess they are still in the same city.

RFC may have missed the beginning of the foundry scene when snippeting (sp?), or he may have cut out spoilers.

The snippets aren't guaranteed to be complete.

Randomiser wrote:Technically, Joat42 may be right, but I can't recall the last time any of the snippets in a series from the start of a book was intentionally incomplete, and I've been reading them for 6 years. Snippets given as teasers from other parts of the book are different, they are sometimes edited. In this case it looks likely that what we are missing is just the line of *'s that usually indicate a change of scene.