If you do not care either way, then I fail to see why a comment such as the one you first made was necessary. YOU may not care, but there are others that do not share that sentiment. Instead of publicly bashing my work with no evidence of fault in my logic, you could have simply said what you really meant, namely, "I do not trust you, Velnaeus, and so I am personally going to ignore your research." That would have been much more productive, and let us avoid this entire discourse, not to mention save you the trouble of conversing with me.
As for your Keep made of silvers, people can say what they like, Baron HaVok, but when I go on an adventure with others, everyone in the party is making a choice to accompany at their own risk, a fact I make very clear. Not only that, but on every occasion I have led an expedition for my research, I have both paid the other adventurers who came handsomely AND forewarned them of the danger. I always ensure that those who come with me to pursue new knowledge are aware of the risks, and they have the express right to refuse to accompany me. If, after I have warned them of the dangers, they then turn and blame me for nearly dying by the dangers I warned them of, that is on them, not me. For example, I led a group to a place guarded by Marble Golems, which I had warned them beforehand that we would be fighting against Marble Golems to reach a portal, at which time I would need to retrieve what we came for from inside it. Ahlana, who accompanied us, was randomly possessed by the urge to jump into the portal while I was retrieving what we came for, a coincidence that had nothing to do with me, but her own meddling with higher powers. Were she to have gone through with it, she would have, without a single doubt, permanently died, and I have heard tell that Ahlana blames me for that near permanent death, but in fact, I was the one who bodily wrestled her away from the portal, nearly being pulled in with her, risking my own permanent death to save her FROM HERSELF. Everyone got out alive from that adventure, but I was still blamed for the trouble, even though they were warned, and that, in a nutshell, is the kind of things people say: they use me as a scapegoat. Besides that, we are adventurers, on what major venture is someone not "almost killed"? The Key word there is "almost".
I am relatively new to adventuring, you are correct, but not to this world, and while my experience with other beings is limited, I have studied my craft for nearly two centuries now.
Finally, the word "fraudulent" does typically mean "Purposefully deceptive" in common terms, but when used to describe a study, it can also colloquially mean research which ignores pre-established facts or skipped fundamental steps in it's experimentation. I would not expect you to know that, as you do not care for research, but I did not misread your words, the words themselves had an alternate meaning than what you indicated to have intended.
- Velnaeus Xevaz, of the Seekers.
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