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Ancient Drew

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Hazeel said :
Looking back, I've noticed a huge flaw with Zaros' deal...

Sliske: Enough. The game is over. Armadyl, take your stone and do with it what you will!
Zaros: Armadyl, my Praetor Plumalis, it is time to uphold our bargain.

The deal for all the Gods was that they were bound to do Zaros one favor during Sliske's game. But a game is over once the winner is delcared--indeed Sliske even said the game is over. So for what reason should any of the Gods comply? Zaros is asking for his favor when the game is already finished, they don't owe him a thing.

This seems like such a massive oversight on Zaros' part too...surely he should be intelligent enough to realize that a game ends when a winner is declared. It would have made more sense for him to tell everyone to drop out from the start or tell the finalist in the race to kill the WG so he can bolt towards the stone while the deity and WG are distracted. Although he does have a point when he says that if we took the Stone ourselves, it would have ended up with the gods going after us and declaring war. A result like this would defeat the object of being the World Guardian, and would end up destroying the planet. At least Zaros was only using the Stone as a bell to wake them up and ask. Definitely risky, although the meeting with Jas was probably the best case scenario possible. She could have killed him, Seren and us easily there and then, but she chose to let us all leave. Prepare for hell on RuneScape in Naval Cataclysm!

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01-Jan-2017 01:49:31

Hguoh

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Hazeel said :
Looking back, I've noticed a huge flaw with Zaros' deal...

Sliske: Enough. The game is over. Armadyl, take your stone and do with it what you will!
Zaros: Armadyl, my Praetor Plumalis, it is time to uphold our bargain.

The deal for all the Gods was that they were bound to do Zaros one favor during Sliske's game. But a game is over once the winner is delcared--indeed Sliske even said the game is over. So for what reason should any of the Gods comply? Zaros is asking for his favor when the game is already finished, they don't owe him a thing.

1. Because they aren't as lawyer-y as Zaros and Seren.

2. Because one could define a game as being over only after the victor has claimed their prize (up until they do, they can still forfeit).

3. It depends on how one defines Sliske's game. I'll let the characters spell this one out for me:

Sliske: But she said that... It doesn't matter, the game is over. The Stone of Jas now belongs to Armadyl. My game is complete.

Zaros: Come now Sliske. We both know that this is only the beginning of your game. You know well that any god possessing the stone is just a precursor to all-out war.

Sliske: Ok, you've got me there. The Catalyst is the perfect fire to spark the fuse. The other gods aren't just going to accept this decision. They'll try and take the stone by force. And with no Guthix to banish them, it will rip this world to pieces, quite literally when you remember who's sleeping below.

Or alternatively:

Saradomin: Enough of your bluster Sliske. This game is over.

Zaros: On the contrary Saradomin. There is one more roll of the dice.

Granted, with Sliske's apparent demise and the Stone's destruction, that particular game of Sliske's is indeed over now, but it wasn't when Zaros called in his pact.

01-Jan-2017 02:04:57 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2017 02:07:21 by Hguoh

Padomenes

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Vardan said :
Summerleaf said :
Padomenes said :
Summerleaf said :
Padomenes said :

*snip*

Either you're an amazing roleplayer, or you need to stop falling for my Kill the Smurf King jokes. I was worried about the potential chance that you were being serious about it because it was certainly possible, but had the feeling anyway. However I'm glad you were not serious then. You were really just joking all along when you were talking about killing gods then, huh? Apologies if so.

Our faction in terms of the stress levels got to the point where its being cornered/surrounded in the bashing. Just had to push back against that.

For the most part, I am joking, but when it comes to Saradomin's death, I'm serious.

I want to cut his throat open over a Zamorakian altar, and watch his silvery-blue ichor spray out onto the masses below as his body begins to turn to stone. I will watch as the demonic hordes scream in triumph and use his blood as lubricant for their horrific breeding rituals. I will yell in triumph as I smash his head in with a crystalline shield, and feed his stony beard to the rock pests in the caverns below Asgarnia. I will take his crown, and wear it upon my head as I carve his body into my personal throne. I will cover him in porcelain, and lay him in my bathroom where he shall remain for eternity, beneath my bum.

O_o
Careful you don't cut yourself on that edge.

Edit: I'm going to assume you were being edgy as a joke and not seriously being the posting embodiment of r/unsheathskatanna If his not then we would have a Serenist version of Aegon on the forums?

01-Jan-2017 07:43:06 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2017 07:43:24 by Padomenes

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