Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-93.185.241.142-20140414185209

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new&improved_vivaxardas   Sayd

This bit of a dialogue simply does no make sense. To explain something senseless by some prophetic vision is bad writing.

Cedric, a former scoia'tael who spends his time protecting the village from monsters and teaching young elves, suddenly agrees to help Triss to break into Sile's room and kills a human bodyguard in the process. Why a hell did he do it?

1. Triss had no right to get into Sile's room, and it had nothing to do with non-humans. These are just squabbles among sorceresses. Cedric had no personal stake in it, and he met Triss just recently. Why to help her with b&e+ murder? To what end?

2. Every non-human knows that Loredo just waits for a provocation to start a massacre. A former scoia'tael to commiting a crime and killing a human in the process is a good excuse. Why would Cedric knowingly jeopardize the lives of the non-humans? To what end? For Triss to use Sile's megascope (akin hacking to someone's comp or using someone's cell-phone)?

3. Sile was actually helping non-humans in Flotsam, with donations, and at least attempting to talk to Loredo. Why would Cedric knowingly commit a crime against a known benefactor? Because Triss asked him to?

Seriously, would you help me, if I ask you to break into my competitor's office, and kill a security guard in the process? Just imagine a situation when someone you barely know asks you to do this crap in RL.

When people do something, they act for certain reasons. They want to achieve something by their actions. There is always some goal, and it be better be reasonable. What would Cedric achieve by helping Triss? All he said was "Why did you? Because sometimes we must." This kind of sounds profound, but essentially it is simply meaningless, and does not explain anything. Geralt has a clear goal - to clear his name. But why it was necessary for Cedric to behave against his beliefs and better judgement, to do something that does not benefit him in any way, but offends a known benefactor, and puts in jeopardy all non-humans in Flotsam? Because he had visions, and they made him to do it? Honestly, it is such a bad example of character motivation that I prefer to add to conspiracy theory about Triss and to think that she enthralled him exactly as Philipa enthralled Saskia. Under Philipa's spell Saskia started doing crap like burning people of Loc Muinne, completely out of character. The same, it seems happens with Cedric. He just goes with Triss, and against any reason, offs a bodyguard, while Triss was hacking Sile's megascope. I'll stick to this theory because it simply offends my literary esthetic sense otherwise.

A bit of addition: Cedric's behavior is what is called "deus ex machina" (#2)

"deus ex machina" definition:

1. In Greek and Roman drama, a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation.

2. An unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot.

3. A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.

Usually it is an example of a very contrived writing

Me:

Triss did not plan murder & did not murder any1, she suspected Sile of plotting something bad, she knows Sile well as she say'd & we players have realy no idea about how much she knows Sile, so bitching about Triss braking in to her room & commiting murder with Cedric is dumb, & also shows that some people tont pay attention to the story when they play & then start bitching about it

why Cedric helped Triss? simple he has visions of the future, usaly he get drunk to avoide visions, but it dose not always work like he hopes, so he probably  so Triss getting killed or maybe he knew Letho shows up & he was thinking he can save Triss & so that she is important for getting better future to none humans & humans, that she play's important role

Sile helped non humans for her benifit, she needs to make herself look good so she has supporters & no1 wont suspect her, at least from none humans side, i wonder did this guy finish the hole game? i understand when people mis some stuff from the story, but if he makes Sile out to be good guy thats more then some stuff, its more like more then half story

but i agree Triss should have W8 & ask Geralt for help, but u know people :D, they think they tont want to burden u so they decide to burden some1 they know less

if player's pay attention all of the choices NPC'S make will make sense to player (some small stuff can be forgiven :D, if some small stuff wont make sense), unless they are lacking something in their brain (No Offence to any1, its just my opinion), its just i have not seen any1 being so off with the plot, misunderstanding the stuff in the plot so much so i had to bring this up, not gonne make acc to that forum just to answer him



 