Nicely stated and played, Oswald. And you’ll be sorry you tried, Baba.
I think Oswald in his modesty and self-knowledge would appreciate Gandalf’s statement to Frodo: “There are many powers in the world, for good or evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured.”
Oh. Better believe it when Baba says she will steal. It will also be certain that she will charge INTEREST in “settling the debt.”
Well in all honesty, Oswald did just now “steal” from Baba. He first gave Baba a price for her knowledge and after getting the said knowledge, he took the price away. Sure it wasn’t really what she thought she was getting from the information, but still. Stealing is stealing.
But I really would want to see an all out open match between these two.
I’m sure Oswald would win in the end, but God dang’it if it wouldn’t be a show of the century.
I’m personally going to file this under “When dealing with unseelie, you play by unseelie rules”. It was hardly Oswald’s fault that the Baba was not canny enough to keep the tuft from detonating in her hand.
Withdrawing a gift given in good faith when you learn it won’t be used in good faith isn’t stealing. There is such a thing as forfeiting one’s right to a gift.
If we were to speak of a gift given in good faith. This here tuft was item paid in exchance of knowledge, which was given. Now there is Baba who “lost” his information that originally was worth a tuft of Oswald’s “own” fur and with the said tuft also taken from her.
It’s like paying someone money for, lets say, icecream and when they give it to you, you make the money ‘splody, but still take the icecream away.
Yay. Fair.
By the withdrawal logic we should be able to ask our money, time and resources back from pretty many companies, etc., etc. who use our given measures to ends we do not fully agree with. No?
@Velgar. If said company engages in fraud or delivers a defective product, yes. For example, someone asks for donations for the Red Cross (in exchange for a necklace, banner, or other keepsake, and then goes to buy a yacht instead, then everyone who donated would be entitled to get their money back.
Baba’s “knowledge” is at best dubious. Her story has her doing things completely out of character like struggling to save fae when her history of hunting, killing and eating fae is well known.
Furthermore, Baba had just challenged Oswald to battle in the last page. The tufts of hair are a casualty of Oswald’s “show of force.” You can’t accuse someone of “stealing” your knife, if he knocks it out of your hand while you are trying to stab him with it. Even if he “sold” you that knife earlier for whatever reason.
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Nicely stated and played, Oswald. And you’ll be sorry you tried, Baba.
I think Oswald in his modesty and self-knowledge would appreciate Gandalf’s statement to Frodo: “There are many powers in the world, for good or evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured.”
Oh. Better believe it when Baba says she will steal. It will also be certain that she will charge INTEREST in “settling the debt.”
Well in all honesty, Oswald did just now “steal” from Baba. He first gave Baba a price for her knowledge and after getting the said knowledge, he took the price away. Sure it wasn’t really what she thought she was getting from the information, but still. Stealing is stealing.
But I really would want to see an all out open match between these two.
I’m sure Oswald would win in the end, but God dang’it if it wouldn’t be a show of the century.
I’m personally going to file this under “When dealing with unseelie, you play by unseelie rules”. It was hardly Oswald’s fault that the Baba was not canny enough to keep the tuft from detonating in her hand.
Withdrawing a gift given in good faith when you learn it won’t be used in good faith isn’t stealing. There is such a thing as forfeiting one’s right to a gift.
If we were to speak of a gift given in good faith. This here tuft was item paid in exchance of knowledge, which was given. Now there is Baba who “lost” his information that originally was worth a tuft of Oswald’s “own” fur and with the said tuft also taken from her.
It’s like paying someone money for, lets say, icecream and when they give it to you, you make the money ‘splody, but still take the icecream away.
Yay. Fair.
By the withdrawal logic we should be able to ask our money, time and resources back from pretty many companies, etc., etc. who use our given measures to ends we do not fully agree with. No?
@Velgar. If said company engages in fraud or delivers a defective product, yes. For example, someone asks for donations for the Red Cross (in exchange for a necklace, banner, or other keepsake, and then goes to buy a yacht instead, then everyone who donated would be entitled to get their money back.
Baba’s “knowledge” is at best dubious. Her story has her doing things completely out of character like struggling to save fae when her history of hunting, killing and eating fae is well known.
Furthermore, Baba had just challenged Oswald to battle in the last page. The tufts of hair are a casualty of Oswald’s “show of force.” You can’t accuse someone of “stealing” your knife, if he knocks it out of your hand while you are trying to stab him with it. Even if he “sold” you that knife earlier for whatever reason.