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Originally Posted by Krono
That was certainly my first thought. The problem is that I'd like to think Mamare's a better author than that. Not only would it nudge Hamelin further towards being comically inept villains which I don't think is what Mamare was going for with the whole slavers and various other evils thing they've got going on; but it'd change Shiroe's rescue. At no point in Shiroe's planning, or in others thinking about the beginners escaping Hamelin, did the concern that Minori or other crafters could be locked in by system restrictions arise. If exits restrictions were available to Hamelin's guild master and he just didn't use them, Shiroe's plan goes from a clever bit of rules lawyering to keep Hamelin from immediate pursuit of the beginners, to it being pure dumb luck that Minori didn't reach the door to find herself locked in.
In short, instead of Minori's escape being cleverness on Shiroe's part, it'd be pure luck.
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I think Mamare would be happy for your confidence in him, but I think it's more realistic to believe that even good authors can and will make mistakes or forget to take a point or two into consideration from time to time =3
Also, there's nothing wrong imho about expecting people to be stupid or just simply careless. It's a possible scenario and not something that can't be expected from a group of people who had been defeated without knowing why or how or even by whom.
To be honest, I often think that it's very silly for folks making a mountain out of an anthill that can be explained with a clear, simple and totally rational reason =3. It's like having a leaf drop off a tree and every onlooker to come up with a thousand and one complicated theories and interpretations of why the leaf have fallen, from the High Gods' decree at the Dawn of Time about the Order of all things Temporal and Not, to Omens of the End to come and the Why, When and Where it will come, when the reason is simply "the leaf has dropped off".
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This would be something done ahead of time. If the crafters are never supposed to leave the guild hall, and you can restrict them from doing so, then why not do so? Instead of having to constantly guard them so they don't slip out during the day, you could just check on them now and then to make sure they aren't slacking off.
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Good point. The only reason I can think of is simply this: Hamelin, and the newbies themselves, have the opinion that even if the newbies escape, they would have nowhere to go, nobody to turn to. Shredder's remark while he pinned Touya to the door is without a doubt to weaken his spirit and resolve, but imho it also reflects how desperate the newbies, and ironically perhaps their tormentors as well, are.
Without a goal, or even someone to tell them what to do, Hamelin and the newbies (and pretty much everyone else, including Shiroe and team) are reduced to doing only what they think they can do. Minori's monologue in the previous episode has quite nicely showed us what the newbies might have thought of their situation: weak, helpless, a burden to others. Would anyone want them? No, so they think, much less strangers who have no obligations to them (remember that these players are new to ET and unlike the old-timers have little to no friends in it, except perhaps each other). Even if they had escaped on their own (and normally it's kinda unthinkable why anyone from the field team has not taken that chance), to where and whom can they turn to? What if they come across people worse than Hamelin? The future is so uncertain, that even sticking with Hamelin might look better in comparison. At least they have a roof over their heads and regular meals.
In a way there is a similar question asked in MaoYuu, "Why don't the serfs rise against their masters, since their lives are so full of pain and sorrow?"
The answer was simply, "Because we don't know the alternatives. We might see the masters drink and feast and make merry all day, but never a moment did we think ourselves doing the same as well."
The same, methinks, can be applied here.
