All Comments on 'A Drow's Dilemma Ep. 98: Attachment'

What happened to Caledir? It’s been 98 chapters, and Caleldir is still a weakling. He went from completely useless to good at combat and magic within the first 10-20 chapters, with the goal and potential of becoming equal to his titan status. Since entering the Drow territory, however, he suddenly became completely useless and incompetent.

Caleldir's bad record in the Underdark seems mostly to be because he keeps getting ambushed, and lacks a killer instinct. At least with the succubus he could definitely get rid of her, but he does not want to kill her so instead her tolerates her feeding off of him. They need her, after all.

Well he was magicly weakened and bound during the entire gangbang at the school and there really was no hint to the succubus's power when she showed up. I am just anticipating his inevitable meeting with his step sister who is hunting for him in the city. I still have a funny feeling she will find Ashyr first and free her then be lead to Caldier. I can probably guarantee if Selene find out about what Dahlia did it will be a very slow and painful detachment procedure for Dahlia. He does need to develop a anti female repelling ward when he wanders alone.

The recurring theme of Caledir getting forced by a female and gaining an ally/alliance out of the experience in one way or another is getting really, really, stale. It doesn't work anymore for plot, and the fact that his character development, the best thing this story has going for it, suffers every time this stunt gets pulled, is a real drain on the story. I'm sure the author(s) can come up with other ways to introduce incoming characters.

This has been the worst incarnation of this to happen so far (and hopefully will be the last), because this time it utterly destroyed my willful suspension of disbelief. He had a spell that the story says he cast in this encounter, that should have guaranteed his escape (Dimension Door). Furthermore, if any of them actually used the magical knowledge they're supposed to possess, they would have had Risa/R.I.S.A. cast a permanent freedom of movement spell on him while in her pocket domain as soon as feasible after the first contact with the rusalkas. Nothing short of a demigod or an archmage of Elminster's caliber could dispel it, and Cal would be completely immune to being grappled, restrained, or even slowed by magical or mundane means.

I am actually inclined to agree with your assessment, kvalentine. When we were writing this part of the story, we never imagined that we were going to publish it here or anywhere (this being a one-on-one, for-fun roleplay project). Sometimes we ignored logic and good story-telling for the sake of writing one of our favorite situations: female-on-male rape. I THINK this was the last time we did this. I could be forgetting something.

Anyway, yeah. Caleldir should have been WAY better protected by that point. There are some in-world reasons why Caleldir keeps letting this happen, But Selene at the very least would have been more paranoid about this sort of thing happening.