> (Obviously he was shocked that Hoolay escape was part of Jing Yuan's plan all along -- which is also BS writing -- and that seemed to have thrown a bit of a wrench into his plans.)
He wasn't shocked that Jing Yuan had planned for Hoolay's escape. That actually was a genuine surprise to all of the generals. They expected that *something* would happen when they scheduled the Wardance. But they didn't know what specifically that something was until it kicked off. They're not that omniscient.
Taoran was shocked that Hoolay was already dealt with by the time he was confronted. He expected that Hoolay's escape would've caused a lot of chaos and destruction among the general populace than it ended up doing. Or maybe expected Hoolay to be able to escape capture for longer.
But Hoolay didn't go by the script planned for him. And Feixiao's hunting skillz is one of the spotlights of the patch. So.
> He mentioned 权衡, so it's more about the fact that his people won't cause even more problems in exchange for not killing him. In the sense of: "If you kill me, my people will bring in even more of Destruction's followers and absolutely wreck Luofu. Even if you win, it'll be a pyrrhic victory. Are you sure you're ready to let so many Cloud Knights die?" Etc.
Uh, I don't think that's what he means by 权衡. The last thing the Xianzhou as a whole are scare of is potential conflict. Back at the end of the Luofu crisis, Jing Yuan had essentially already given a verbal promise to declare war on Phantylia. And we learn this time that he did forward that onto the marshal. And after this current mess with Hoolay, Feixiao has also declared her support, and she's picked her next Hunt target once she gets back to the Yaoqing.
The example we're given of "权衡", in story, is that the marshal decided that Hoolay will be imprisoned on the Luofu instead of the Yaoqing, as reminder and warning to both ships not to retread Dan Feng's mistake and go overboard using him to research a cure for the Foxian moon rage curse.
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Date: 2024-09-11 16:44 (UTC)He wasn't shocked that Jing Yuan had planned for Hoolay's escape. That actually was a genuine surprise to all of the generals. They expected that *something* would happen when they scheduled the Wardance. But they didn't know what specifically that something was until it kicked off. They're not that omniscient.
Taoran was shocked that Hoolay was already dealt with by the time he was confronted. He expected that Hoolay's escape would've caused a lot of chaos and destruction among the general populace than it ended up doing. Or maybe expected Hoolay to be able to escape capture for longer.
But Hoolay didn't go by the script planned for him. And Feixiao's hunting skillz is one of the spotlights of the patch. So.
> He mentioned 权衡, so it's more about the fact that his people won't cause even more problems in exchange for not killing him. In the sense of: "If you kill me, my people will bring in even more of Destruction's followers and absolutely wreck Luofu. Even if you win, it'll be a pyrrhic victory. Are you sure you're ready to let so many Cloud Knights die?" Etc.
Uh, I don't think that's what he means by 权衡. The last thing the Xianzhou as a whole are scare of is potential conflict. Back at the end of the Luofu crisis, Jing Yuan had essentially already given a verbal promise to declare war on Phantylia. And we learn this time that he did forward that onto the marshal. And after this current mess with Hoolay, Feixiao has also declared her support, and she's picked her next Hunt target once she gets back to the Yaoqing.
The example we're given of "权衡", in story, is that the marshal decided that Hoolay will be imprisoned on the Luofu instead of the Yaoqing, as reminder and warning to both ships not to retread Dan Feng's mistake and go overboard using him to research a cure for the Foxian moon rage curse.