Annotated 6-14
In addition to being a challenge for her rescuers, Frigg’s restraint was meant to be Christlike but not too obviously Christlike.
Phil was delighted with the nickname “Stickface,” which was a nice victory for me after a lot of Frigg dialogue he’d rewritten on the basis of being “not 4chan enough.”
Syr’Nj is smart enough that she could probably get through that lock in minutes, but they only have seconds, and sometimes a generalist needs to yield to specialized labor.
The Volume 2 bonus story would follow up on the idea of a Thieves’ Guild.
Bandit’s last couple of lines on this page are inspired by an old Dave Barry routine about Richard Nixon.
So Arkerran skill points are out of ten, huh?
The skill points are base 16. They only had 10 locks to pick (of which she opened 9), the rest got stolen.
If there’s one thing that’s bugged me about RPG tropes, its how the guilds were only ever titled by their class. Like, okay, Mages or Fighters Guild is boringly straightforward and not how marketing works, but even ignoring that, why in the hell would you ever deliberately advertise yourself by an action that is outlawed like Thieves Guild or Assassin’s Guild?
Thieving and assassinating aren’t illegal in every setting. See Ankh-Morpork, e.g.
What else would you call them? You only need more detailed names if there’s more than one, and *that’s* the unrealistic thing. In the real world they all have individual names because there are many of them and they don’t have the same leadership. The idea that thieves could manage to band together enough to unite under one name and enforce a monopoly on illegal activity for an entire city (let alone an entire nation) is laughable.
Hey, now. At least within a nation, organized thuggery is universally organized under the same leadership, when it’s done for the government.
It’s different branches that get different names, and there’s maybe a specialist squad or two…
And of course, that’s not discussing the limits stemming from the size of the nation, at all.
Is this our first clue that they are in a game? As in, 9 out of 10 skill level in lock picking?