No, it would be awfully mean to poison them and when they have all fallen prey to the hideous scheme, their corpses vanish, never to be seen again. Drugging them to sleep is a perfectly reasonable approach to get something they quite obviously are highly interested in.
In my own story, my characters are actually in quite a similar situation right now. They’re used to people hating, hurting and hunting them, because of what they are (which is what you’d expect in this kind of situation, after all they’re intruders and all that). And yet, despite all that, the people they’re currently with treat them like heroes, celebrating and cherishing them.
One is happy, one is mopey (different reason though)…and one doesn’t trust the situation. Now guess which one is the most reasonable of the three. 😉
I think you’re familiar with that infamous setup, where a group arrives to save someone only to learn, that the missing person is treated like a God on whatever island he landed on. Being fed and cared about and what not for no apparent reason other than: ‘He fell from the sky.’ (Or: ‘Wandered through the barrier’ in this case)…but, as the story progresses, the ‘happy guy’ learns, that they were being so nice to him, because their volcano god doesn’t like skinny sacrifices.
So yeah, unfortunately the one with the best chances of survival is usually the one, who doesn’t trust the situation. 😉
“Just a misunderstanding”…
Now, now, you don’t do ominous foreshadowing much do you???
And all of a sudden, everyone became very sleepy and in the next morning, the medallions were gone…
That would be awfully mean of them (and me!)
No, it would be awfully mean to poison them and when they have all fallen prey to the hideous scheme, their corpses vanish, never to be seen again. Drugging them to sleep is a perfectly reasonable approach to get something they quite obviously are highly interested in.
In my own story, my characters are actually in quite a similar situation right now. They’re used to people hating, hurting and hunting them, because of what they are (which is what you’d expect in this kind of situation, after all they’re intruders and all that). And yet, despite all that, the people they’re currently with treat them like heroes, celebrating and cherishing them.
One is happy, one is mopey (different reason though)…and one doesn’t trust the situation. Now guess which one is the most reasonable of the three. 😉
Is it the happy one?? I bet it’s the happy one. 😛
I think you’re familiar with that infamous setup, where a group arrives to save someone only to learn, that the missing person is treated like a God on whatever island he landed on. Being fed and cared about and what not for no apparent reason other than: ‘He fell from the sky.’ (Or: ‘Wandered through the barrier’ in this case)…but, as the story progresses, the ‘happy guy’ learns, that they were being so nice to him, because their volcano god doesn’t like skinny sacrifices.
So yeah, unfortunately the one with the best chances of survival is usually the one, who doesn’t trust the situation. 😉