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The Red Court, The Fomor, and Could Thomas Have Been?
ClintACK:
The description of what Thomas is supposed to have done was very vague.
There was mention of explosions (plural) going off and starting the fire, but it wasn't clear if that was the supposed assassination attempt, or whether the bombs were a distraction.
Complete description:
--- Quote from: Evanna ---An assassin entered the stronghold this evening... Through treachery. The assassin reached my brother's business chambers. There were explosions, which started the fire. Several guards were wounded. One [Austri] threw himself between Etri and harm and paid with his life for his loyalty."
--- End quote ---
That is the full and complete description of the events. We never learn anything more, except that there's a video and Lara's seen it.
From what we know, it could be anything from a video of Thomas with knife-and-gun out shooting at Etri and throwing fire bombs to Thomas running into the room, then guards discovering Austri dead and Thomas beaten to within an inch of his life and leaping to conclusions.
Mira:
--- Quote from: ClintACK on August 18, 2020, 05:34:31 PM ---The description of what Thomas is supposed to have done was very vague.
There was mention of explosions (plural) going off and starting the fire, but it wasn't clear if that was the supposed assassination attempt, or whether the bombs were a distraction.
Complete description:
That is the full and complete description of the events. We never learn anything more, except that there's a video and Lara's seen it.
From what we know, it could be anything from a video of Thomas with knife-and-gun out shooting at Etri and throwing fire bombs to Thomas running into the room, then guards discovering Austri dead and Thomas beaten to within an inch of his life and leaping to conclusions.
--- End quote ---
And Harry asking almost no questions. What is also odd, and Bombshells underscores this, but would be expected of Thomas, is how is it he was overcome so easily and beaten up so badly? In Bombshells the Fomor go into his room by mistake and he kicks the crap out of them. Yeah, I know the elves are tough little guys, but unless he was starving to begin with, they shouldn't have overcome Thomas that easily in my opinion. Which begs another question, if Thomas knew what he was about to do, wouldn't he have topped off his Hunger before hand to be at full strength in case the mission went bad? Wasn't he getting a snack from Evanna?
ClintACK:
Depends who he fought. Thomas beat the heck out of the fomor mooks, but Etri was even more impressive making Froggy look like a minor irritant.
And yeah -- the fact that Harry didn't ask questions was the surprising bit. I realize they hit him hard with the emotional distractions (Maggie in danger, Thomas in pain...) but I would have expected questions later. (I especially would have expected him to ask Lara for a blow-by-blow of what she saw on the video, when he learns that she saw it.)
I think it's quite possible that Harry was the actual target of the whole thing -- faced with svartalves terrorizing his daughter and his brother beaten mostly to death, anyone who has been paying attention would expect Harry to lose control and break guest right. (Heck, Harry was making plans to do it!) The Winter Knight blatantly breaking the Accords within hours of the start of the Peace Talks would have been a huge blow to Mab's honor.
Conspiracy Theorist:
That’s the issue, if Etri is a major hitter how did this happen in the first place? Thomas shouldn’t have got anywhere near him, and shouldn’t have been able to injure Etri. What if the Swartalves staged the entire thing?
Mira:
--- Quote from: Conspiracy Theorist on August 18, 2020, 06:58:23 PM ---That’s the issue, if Etri is a major hitter how did this happen in the first place? Thomas shouldn’t have got anywhere near him, and shouldn’t have been able to injure Etri. What if the Swartalves staged the entire thing?
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That is another possibility, they know better than to trust the Fomor. Okay, tin hat time! Suppose, Lara, Mab, and the Svartalves worked it out ahead of time to discredit any agreement? Thomas agreed to go in hungry so he could be beaten up badly enough to make a good show of it. Thomas would then be transferred to the Castle where he could easily be rescued. For his bravery, Mab agreed to shut off the embryo Hunger so Justine could survive her pregnancy.. Favor number one granted.
No one was supposed to get hurt, but Austri got killed somehow, after which, all bets were off. Thomas wasn't going to get any life saving nourishment, so then Lara and Mab had to go to plan "D," in other words, Harry. They wanted to make sure their butts were covered, so that is why they popped into the Monstermobile when they did, just before things hit the fan. Once Harry and Lara went into rescue mode they put on a pair of mission blinkers so effective, they could only deal with what was directly in front of their noses. Meanwhile the Fomor were coming at everyone sideways and they were blind to it all. Suggests maybe they had someone on the inside at the Svartalve Embassy, to make sure Thomas's mission would turn into a complete snafu..
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