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    Quote Originally Posted by HalfTangible View Post
    Interesting.

    So having a rogue in charge was itself the shell game.
    No, the caves is a shell game. A shell game is not a game in which you have a 1-in-x chance of guessing right. It is a game that makes you think you have a 1-in-x chance of guessing right, but where you in fact have 0 chance of guessing right, because it is not a guessing game at all. Which is what "pick a door, any door" is. And Xykon fell for it hook, line and sinker, since he thought it was all about "getting lucky" when in fact it was a "do all of them before the monster regenerate" or whatever. Had he kept with his original "1-2 doors a night" he'd never have beaten the dungeon, because it is a shell game and he was never going to "get lucky".

    Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
    It is not. Its a video that explains why you dont talk.
    Its a video that explains why you don't talk to the US police without a lawyer (the qualifier is kinda important, I feel. It is not a video recommending monastic vows of silence)

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