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2024-04-17, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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#48
Barbarian in the Playground
Re: So what might have been Elan's super secret plan?
You know, I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about what Elan's secret plan was/is, but I really like the idea from upthread someone had of it involving Haley's dad leading a troupe of play actors/entertainers/clowns in a series of anti-Tarquin take-down pantomimes/plays, like Hamlet's play within a play in order to shift public acceptance of Tarquin's rule and making people realize what a bad guy he is.
The "equipment and training" he references is learning how to stage the plays and getting the costumes/props etc.
I like this for a lot of reasons:
It would be an Elan plan because it involves Bardwork
It hits Tarquin where he lives in using propaganda/population control against him
It undermines him making him the fool and the target of character assassination
The whole hamlet analogy is fitting
I think that's a brilliant idea the more I think about it.
But, like quite a few others, I don't expect to get more than a brief bit at the end with most of this happening offscreen.