At least the other way it wouldn't involve needlessly messing with mortals. Heck it would have given Pete a more likely chance to win because, if we are going to talk strategy then as I said before Pete lost that part of the game to the point were I don't know why anyone would want him to be a leader of anything. This fight would be pointless if anyone cared about strategy in this plot line, and the arc would have ended years ago. Plus the other game is about fighting demons or something, how would any practice here fighting and manipulating mortals even remotely help with that? Any human (or anything else for that matter) would want to help fighting against demons, and if they needed manipulating into it, they aren't going to be much help in the long run anyway. Its not like they are practicing their individual goals that they want to see which is better or more attainable or something like that; heck we don't even know what they are.Hedronal wrote:This way, they can focus on the strategy requirements of the game instead of having to get their metaphorical hands dirty. They also (in theory) do not get directly hurt.IceKitsune wrote: The issue I have with that is, the game and beating each other up are the same thing. Except in the interim you screw with mortals for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Really since this is about leadership of the group then were are the other two players? Shouldn't they have some say in this? Why would they want to follow Pete after this anyway, all but maybe one plan (if he even got rid of Baileys family in the first place) worked. He then promptly screwed that up by letting his one likely backup that could help him (King) go away; or he just never bothered to bring one at all. Even if he wins the fight it will be though luck (a.k.a plot convenience) as he has shown himself to be really incompetent next to Dragon. All evidence points to this being all about the two of them duking it out the whole time nothing more. Also if you recall Dragons original plan was to just keep Pete locked into his temple until he gave up, that is not really a good way to go about focusing on strategy when your other game is likely fighting demons and what not.