Last night's "what if Amethar made a different choice" was about what if he had gone back for Lapin, today is what if he'd asked Calroy to stay at Castle Candy. Never in a million years would that happen, and what ifs are especially pointless in an improvised media like ttrpgs. But it's a fun thought exercise.
He was only doing half damage in the ambush, but he was still drawing people away from focusing Amethar, so maybe even from the start things would have been drastically different. I'll need to rewatch the fight with that in mind.
In That Scene, he says something like "all the work [he and Alfredi] put in to getting the watersteel daggers in that carrot paladin's hands". When was his part of that work done? I'm 99% sure Keradin still would have had them, because that was Extremely Important, but how would it be different?
It was a big party, so other people definitely heard Manta Ray's joke about the girl in the Dairy Isles, but were they the right people? Would they have had the context needed to put together that they should follow up on that?
And then what happens in Castle Candy? Does he keep biding his time? Caramelinda is, above all else, a creature of duty. But Amanda Maillard is from Muffinfield, I wouldn't be surprised if Calroy knew about the affair, or maybe found out if Amethar's absence made her a bit less careful about it. Maybe between that and her extreme frustration with Amethar, he'd see a chink in that duty-bound armor?
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