EQ Readthrough: Issue 3, The Challenge

[elf]

LINK: Issue 3: The Challenge
Questions for this issue:

• What do you think of the Sun Villagers?
• How do you think the challenge wand came about?
• Did you think the challenges were fair, and fairly won?

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[elf]

The "head" challenge seemed to be about "clever use of resources," rather than any actual intelligence. Cutter had senses that made certain skills irrelevant, and it didn't matter that it takes no direct intelligence to use those senses.

And yeah, with you on the metal-sniffing.

The test seemed to reward luck much more than forethought. Although I suppose that doesn't much matter, if the point is that the winner gets to woo the lady, not "marry" her. (The more I think about the whole challenge thing, the less sense it makes.)