Guild Wars 2

I’m having similar issues. Out of several attempts, I’ve now done this successfully a total of three times, never getting knocked off of the top of the rock while fighting Nochtli until the event is completed, and I still don’t have the achievement. One of these times I even managed to completely avoid being hit, and on all three occasions I started by waiting for her at the top of the rock before the fight even begins. The only thing that I can think of is that I was on my ranger for all of these successes, and perhaps my pet is once again causing problems for no discernible reason.

DeadlyShash.5891:

For what purpose would they be?

As mentioned, a motive that matches Rox’s behaviour. Think of this on dramatic terms. It’s a pretty standard twist, nothing particularly challenging or “out there”.

Rox doesn’t come across as self-assured. Given her past, that’s plenty of reason to assume she doesn’t have enough motivation for this very specific thing, based on her character at face value. This is a gladium in the legions we’re talking about here.

Anyway, I’ve already admitted that this would easily be clichéd middle school level writing. Dramatically it could work if the reveal was introduced with a flurry of some very complex social/familial politicking, but that’d take some Rushdie level writing skills to pull off, which probably wouldn’t fit into an MMO like this to begin with. Still, food for thought.

Chochlik.6095:

Very unlikely. As you mentioned, it would break lore and only a beginner writer would come up with something like that. And A.net’s writers are too professional to come up with such a fanfic-tier material. This is very silly! Rytlock would never be such a ruseman!

Eh, I’m not sure. I’ve just been looking over all of Rox’s dialogue as recorded on the wiki, and there’s a few occasions where she seems to be making some assessments of Rytlock’s personality that don’t seem to match up with generic authoritarian discussion.

On the other hand, her discussions during the F&F arc seem to be nothing out of the ordinary, so either she could have been putting on a façade due to the disadvantaged social situation she was in at the time, or I’m just trying to cherry pick for an idea that legitimately doesn’t fit in with the established story. Still, I’m not ruling it out yet.

No, this is not a ship; don’t worry.

Anyway, I’ve had an idea surrounding Rox’s interactions with Rytlock for the past few weeks, but I haven’t gotten round to discussing it with anyone. However, it came back to mind with some bits of dialogue from the end of the Tower of Nightmares arc (see attachment). I think Rox and and Rytlock may be relatives. Specifically, I think this is one of those “lost relative” things where Rox knows she’s a cousin or sister or something of his, but Rytlock doesn’t actually know it.

Alright, so original development of Rox that we saw ingame was her trying to get into the Stone warband, enough said about that. However, this has gone on for some time, and she seems pretty dogged about joining Rytlock. In contrast, she still has a rather sober assessment of the whole situation, of Rytlock, outside of legion politics and when addressing her present allies on the subject; she’s not exactly acting like a gushing cheerleader here. If this was just about her being a gladium, there’s got to be easier ways than randomly trying to get into one of the most exclusive warbands in the alliance (remember, she was in a band of miners. Not exactly the most astonishing résumé for joining a top legion authority).

Compounding her behaviour is her utter subservience to Rytlock and the general demeanour she has addressing him. I admit I’m not able to cite too much directly here, seeing as the LS makes me unable to go back and re-read some of the world building here, but if you look up the “Delegation” short story in this context, I believe it has merit. Furthermore, her compatriots seem to be noticing it as well, as Braham has called out her utter devotion to this charge at the drop of a hat (again, see attachment). She seems to really want this, but her motives as yet don’t seem to match up; it doesn’t quite make sense. There’s got to be a personal reason we’ve not seen so far. Barring some kind of “secret crush” subplot that’d be flying out of left field at this stage, I think the idea that she knows something about a common lineage between them has merit.

Or she could just genuinely admire Brimstone and think she’s got what it takes to join that warband. Actually now that I’ve typed this out, it’s starting to sound like some awful idea that a 12 year old fanfic writer coughed up. Plus I admit this would be kind of a hackneyed kick against the established lore, seeing as familial relationships aren’t taken that seriously in the legions. I’m wary to believe that a decent writer would be willing to pull something like this out of nowhere. Actually I’m starting to feel a little silly for thinking about this off and on for the past few weeks now.

I don’t know, thoughts?