The meddling of the gods

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SPOILERS AHOY

( Approach in TaT vs. RotT )

Very casual transcript

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For those who couldn't be at the Virtual Book Launch last night, here's a thrown-together document with the topics and some answers. Also some non-answers!

It was a fun hour and a half, with NO SPOILERS for RotT. There were no cameras or audio for the guests, but a VERY active backchat window on the side, and it was wonderful to see so many sounis people there, both past and present, with some fun in-jokes.  

[ROTT SPOILERS] Volume 2, Chapter 3

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I have finished Return of the Thief, and really need to process this section from V2Ch3.  I was commenting on the main book discussion thread and realized my question was rapidly becoming too unwieldy for a simple discussion and decided to post as a separate thread.  I have tried this multiple times and haven't been able to get a single cut to work despite multiple approaches and versions, so I've done an lj-cut for each paragraph individually.

So the converstion between Sophos and Helen regarding whether Gen knew of Sounis's proposal and threat to give Hamiathe's stone to Gen if Helen proposed.  Which proposal are they talking about?  It sounds like it would have to be the proposal sent before The Thief that precipitated the events of the entire series, but then why on earth would Sounis choose Gen at this point?

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