Why would one believe that she would do that in the first place.
I wouldn´t trust someone okay with, and effectively ordering, the gruesome deaths of 999 people, to keep her word and not just go over to 1.000.
The witch may be capable of reversing their memories and sending them back to their own times. Maybe the portals used to get there were actually replicators (though we have no precedent for that with her portals so far).
In the worst case, the witch intends to annihilate all participants, but where’s the sport in that?
The second-worst case is that a vast group of warriors has to found civilization on an alien planet. Not separating any couples, this outcome is not so bad at all.
Right now, I think the two most important questions are these:
1. Just how powerful is the witch? She has apparently either discovered or built a habitable planet, transported a legion of warriors to it, and installed some sort of unobtrusive universal translator. She could be relying on incredible technology, but more probably she has reality-warping powers. Most likely, she is from outside their reality altogether–perhaps running it as a simulation–and we have only ever seen her avatar. Somehow this scenario seems to fit her abilities and the sparkle effects when she is injured.
2. What does the witch want to find out? This one fight isn’t enough to draw conclusions on the nature of man; if she is a true scientist, she either has run or intends to run many more. But why then would she invest so much time individually inciting her chosen warriors to hunt her down? If she wants these warriors to fight each other, then she has spent much effort working against her own goals by giving them common cause. Perhaps the experiment pits order against violence, and Alec is working toward one foreseen potential outcome rather than messing up the experiment. Maybe she is trying to train a decent group of nemeses out of boredom. Maybe she actually wants to teach the combatants some lesson and doesn’t plan to make them fight to the death at all. Or, if she is running the whole reality as a simulation, maybe she is just trying to tweak the stories of some characters to make it more interesting.
Whatever her motives, I eagerly anticipate her comeuppance. She’s been pushing people around for far too long.
From this time forward, Alec became known as “Sherlock Bastion”.
Now if only there was a Deerstalker and a pipe laying around somewhere…
But what if the Witch won’t let them out if there is more than one survivor?
Why would one believe that she would do that in the first place.
I wouldn´t trust someone okay with, and effectively ordering, the gruesome deaths of 999 people, to keep her word and not just go over to 1.000.
The witch may be capable of reversing their memories and sending them back to their own times. Maybe the portals used to get there were actually replicators (though we have no precedent for that with her portals so far).
In the worst case, the witch intends to annihilate all participants, but where’s the sport in that?
The second-worst case is that a vast group of warriors has to found civilization on an alien planet. Not separating any couples, this outcome is not so bad at all.
Right now, I think the two most important questions are these:
1. Just how powerful is the witch? She has apparently either discovered or built a habitable planet, transported a legion of warriors to it, and installed some sort of unobtrusive universal translator. She could be relying on incredible technology, but more probably she has reality-warping powers. Most likely, she is from outside their reality altogether–perhaps running it as a simulation–and we have only ever seen her avatar. Somehow this scenario seems to fit her abilities and the sparkle effects when she is injured.
2. What does the witch want to find out? This one fight isn’t enough to draw conclusions on the nature of man; if she is a true scientist, she either has run or intends to run many more. But why then would she invest so much time individually inciting her chosen warriors to hunt her down? If she wants these warriors to fight each other, then she has spent much effort working against her own goals by giving them common cause. Perhaps the experiment pits order against violence, and Alec is working toward one foreseen potential outcome rather than messing up the experiment. Maybe she is trying to train a decent group of nemeses out of boredom. Maybe she actually wants to teach the combatants some lesson and doesn’t plan to make them fight to the death at all. Or, if she is running the whole reality as a simulation, maybe she is just trying to tweak the stories of some characters to make it more interesting.
Whatever her motives, I eagerly anticipate her comeuppance. She’s been pushing people around for far too long.
I like that the fancy conquistador that Alec was choking on the previous page has listened to reason and decided to join them instead.