OOTS #1274 - The Discussion Thread

[wilphe]

"Even" in the sense of relatively early in everyones' character development

I remind you that at the very start Roy feels he has to stay up or night because he thinks Haley, Belkar & Elan are too greedy, psychotic or stupid to be left alone on watch.

He's at first glad when Elan gets captured by the bandits because he thinks he is useless, and he doesn't go back to help him because he has changed his mind and now thinks Elan is crucial to the team


From there to "actually thinking they have valid input and soliciting it" is a journey

Also, the point Haley is making there IE Roy's willingness to accept the situation as presented at face value rather then contemplate deception unprompted, is itself kinda part of his habit of thinking he knows more then he does.

She's calling them out for being Lawful, not for intellectual arrogance

Consideringg what happened the first time Roy went to the Oracle (Xykon being located in his throne room, for those who don't remember), it's obvious why he did what he did was not out of any sense of intelligent superiorty, but rather practicality. While Roy did outsmart himself, it was only because a previous experience told him he needed to outsmart the oracle to get any useful information.

Yeah, and he is not a super genius who started with INT 18 (probably), even so he realised very fast the implications when Elan talked about the Three Gates