So I have some thoughts on this development. First, we can guess that the existence of the Devil's Prize is common knowledge among pirates (as is the knowledge of what happens to you if you try to claim it and you're blowing smoke). However, we know from one of the strips last week that a lot of British sailors turn privateer for a while, and it's not terribly noteworthy.
Given that, why doesn't British Intelligence know about the Devil's Prize? And given that Wooster was assigned to watch Gil...and at the time Bang worked for Gil's father...if so, why didn't Wooster know enough about it to put two and two together when he heard Zeetha's story? Perhaps we will find these things out in the next few days.
There's also at least one way that this can resolve without the Zeetha/Bang death match we've been anticipating for many years. Suppose that Margolotta's faction hired the pirates who raided the returning expedition, told them to return Zeetha alive, and failed to mention that, oh, she's a warrior princess of Skifander who could probably eat your entire crew for breakfast? We only have speculation as to why the pirates didn't kill her, and for all we know someone working more directly for Margolotta's faction on the expedition may have poisoned her to keep her docile during the trip.
So Bang finds out that Margolotta & co. basically sent her pirates into a death trap with no warning, and Zeetha finds out that M. & co. tried to poison her...and now both of them are really pissed off at the same people.
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Date: 2018-10-01 02:58 pm (UTC)Given that, why doesn't British Intelligence know about the Devil's Prize? And given that Wooster was assigned to watch Gil...and at the time Bang worked for Gil's father...if so, why didn't Wooster know enough about it to put two and two together when he heard Zeetha's story? Perhaps we will find these things out in the next few days.
There's also at least one way that this can resolve without the Zeetha/Bang death match we've been anticipating for many years. Suppose that Margolotta's faction hired the pirates who raided the returning expedition, told them to return Zeetha alive, and failed to mention that, oh, she's a warrior princess of Skifander who could probably eat your entire crew for breakfast? We only have speculation as to why the pirates didn't kill her, and for all we know someone working more directly for Margolotta's faction on the expedition may have poisoned her to keep her docile during the trip.
So Bang finds out that Margolotta & co. basically sent her pirates into a death trap with no warning, and Zeetha finds out that M. & co. tried to poison her...and now both of them are really pissed off at the same people.