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Old 2010-11-08, 22:16   Link #18603
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Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon View Post
That's the whole gamble thing, though. Yasu has absolutely no idea whether or not the chain is going to work as planned, but that's half the fun for him/her, if what we've been told about Beatrice is true.
Think of it as a mystery story. Accident and chance and blind luck shouldn't be permitted in the detective's investigation. Why should we permit accident, chance, and blind luck in the machinations of the culprit? It's equally unfair and equally disappointing from a literary standpoint. If you're going to create an unbroken chain by faking your death three times as two separate people, your plan can't "possibly" fail. It must be set up such that it will not fail absent deliberate agency on the part of someone to uncover it.
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