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Trisfelt would feel Jenn out and try to see if she has noticed anything strange about Rupert. At which she would lament and complain to Trisfelt about this stupid obsession with demons that Rupert has and how Edwyrd is dragging him everywhere and getting involved with a greater demon.
They didn’t the giant undead with them?
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“They do not attack; they are all just crowding together behind a very fierce front line that surrounds them.” Talarius observed. “[color=red]They have crammed all their giant undead into the area as well[/color], the flying ones in the air above them. Is this some sort of bizarre last stand?”
[/quote]Well, yes in book 3. In book 2 however the tone indicates they knowingly allied with necromancers and other “Forces of Evil” so long as they were actually being maligned rather than being truly evil.
That job? I was a project management analyst. My job to manage issues, risk, change requests, requirement coordintion, etc. Once the internal quality problems were known I was shifted over to internal QA and became a technical writer and review. I also got placed as a required step in all document signoff (informally) to ensure quality.
Later moved over to business systems analysis and college / new-hire training.
I noticed a similar problem these last four years with “business analysts”. They are sent for 3-5 weeks of systems training, then I get them. They had NO idea how to model a business. They knew what a flowchart was, but that limited to [u]within[/u] an ERP application. Couldn’t abstract, couldn’t map ERP to business without getting stuck on the nitty-gritty details of SAP or EBS waaaaay too early in the project. Their process flows were closer to UI/storyboard flow than anything else. That’s a system use case, not a business process flow! BP flows should model and KPI, process inefficiencies, handle coordination of work.
I had to teach context modeling, business process modeling, process decomposition, how to write a use case… dear god, why didn’t they already know how to write a use case? These people were closer to end-users that could configure than they were “business analysts”.
Talarius knew of the Grove in book 2. Sort of. He calls her a Pagan Whore, but I wonder why he would call her a pagan if he didn’t know about her association with the grove.
Shock, that has been my job from time to time. Worst was when our project team had 6 consultants over from India. Smart guys, knew English, couldn’t write well worth a damn. 65 pages of notes was their spec. I ask if their colleges ever covered technical writing and document presentation as a course. They said no. No!
I spent a 8, 14 hours a day converting those documents in section, paragraphs, and even worse, the formatting, oh the inconsistent formatting and badly built table. Eventually they were professional enough to turn over. Just, yeesh. I’ve yet to have a moment like that where I wish I was better paid.
Well, the answer has to be NO because in book 2 we have this bit:
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Ragala-nargoloth blinked as the world shifted around her. Suddenly she found herself not in her tent but in some sort of stone temple between two columns. Instead of the small stone talisman, there was a bright silver talisman in her lap that she, or rather her dream self was clutching. Her head was reeling and she felt incredibly disoriented.She looked around the room to see several very odd-looking orcs with wings and hooves. [color=red]D’Orcs? They could not be; D’Orcs were long gone from the localverse.[/color] As she eyed the apparent impossibilities, she suddenly recognized one from a stone painting in one of the tribe’s holy sites.
[/quote]So, Nysegard never got in communication w/ Etterdam or the rest of the localverse. Nor did the Nysegard shamans get the wake-up call in book 2. Presumably they lost the Talisman of Orcus or it was destroyed.
You would think the D’Orcs would connect with the local tribes to help guard the local Doomalogues.
Also, there would almost would be something guarding the local dooms. No way Orcus, the chessmaster, would pull all his troops away.
Oooooh, I thought you meant all the mortal shamans were summoned. It’s just that know that isn’t true since D’Orcs shamans remained at Nysegard.
Even if the D’Orcs shamans were all gone the local non-shaman D’Orc guard for the Doomalogues could have gotten in contact w/ the mortal shamans and D’Orc warriors.
Now, maybe Nét and Aodh have been waging a war these last 4000 years to eliminate orcs from the multiverse, but I don’t get that impression outside of Etterdam.
But the giants? They took those that weren’t freed with them. And then there are the undead “dragons”. If any immortal is still bound when they go the Abyss then wouldn’t they be freed and ready to rampage?
Beragamos say the same balling that the Tiernon and Torean saw. Why didn’t Beragamos recognize Tom as being familar? In book 2 the suspicion of Orcus is brought up and Beragamos [u][b]still[/b][/u] didn’t recall / recognize.
