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CANTO XIII | VIDEO | BACKDATED TO THE 30th

May 02, 2011 17:20

[At first, all you can see is what appears to be...a casino. Bright lights, loud noises, people in formal wear, uh, someone getting tossed out by a couple of security guards...yeah, you know the drill. When the comm stops panning around this very colorful scene, it focuses on Beatrice, all dolled up in a slinky crimson number with a fur boa ( Read more... )

† beatrice | the golden witch

Comments 8

[video] inhisrighthand May 3 2011, 02:16:03 UTC

My luck's more like a curse than a skill.

[video] unastregadoro May 5 2011, 14:27:03 UTC

[An arch of the eyebrows.]

Oh? How so, demon? Are not curses par for the course in an existence like yours?

[video] inhisrighthand May 5 2011, 14:58:54 UTC

Jeez, lady. That's kinda harsh.

video firstmate May 3 2011, 04:11:11 UTC

Luck is an asset. Good luck can change the world.

video unastregadoro May 5 2011, 14:28:34 UTC

My, what a grandiose outlook!

[She chuckles, then finishes off her champagne.]

Yet luck bows down to no one, no matter whether a person wishes to use it for good or for ill. How then, do you feel it can change the world?

Voice loves_war May 5 2011, 01:29:43 UTC

Luck manifests itself in external circumstances, does it not? Favourable weather on the day of battle, or key information that happens to be found at the right time. Skill, on the other hand, is owned and used by the person to bring about a favourable outcome from their current circumstances.

Luck, then, should be treated as just a part of the environment, like precipitation- falling here and there by chance. Let luck remain on the outside, while skill remain with the person's own self.

Voice unastregadoro May 5 2011, 14:31:46 UTC

That's quite an economical way of putting it. Yet, in some cases----especially in the setting of war---one can use strategy to bend luck to their favor, whether it is by using key information, or certain aspects of their given environment.

Many wars have been won as a result of luck. Rebellions, in particular, when it is the common man placing themselves against an entire regime.

Voice loves_war May 5 2011, 23:19:06 UTC

Yet if luck is as you say it is- a breath of the wind, appearing and disappearing in a sigh- no one can claim to truly affect or control it. And so even if wars are won and lost because of it, it cannot be credited to either the victor or the defeated.

The commander who thinks to attack while under cover of a thick fog has every right to congratulate himself on his own cleverness. But to congratulate himself for the fog being there in the first place? That would be an absurdity! One is skill, and the other is luck. The luck may make skill possible, as the commander takes advantage of the luck of the fog. In the end however, the two are separate.