Talk:A Crack in the Slab/@comment-36170398-20180712204232/@comment-26199726-20180714085137

Doesn't redemption lie in pulling Karnaca back from the brink after previously letting it get so close to it through your own negligence? In low chaos, the protagonist does that and even makes the city thrive once more. On top of that, they remove the subversive elements that threatened the Empire and which they had previously allowed to fester.

You don't do that in high chaos, of course, but that's - again - the whole point.

If you're feel they're just "stumbling through", unlike the Loyalists who had everything planned, that may be because the Loyalists conducted a pre-planned campaign against the Lord Regent, while Emily / Corvo is pursuing an investigation into Delilah's immortality. That an investigation defies traditional planning much more than an organized campaign and instead relies on following leads you find, and is thus more chaotic, should be evident.

I'm sorry you feel the coup's success seems forced. To me, it doesn't seem unfeasible a stunt like that could be pulled if you have enough resources, excellent counter-intelligence, and an opponent who is both inattentive and relatively new at the job. The only problem I might have there is not that I can't see this plausibly happening to Corvo, but that we don't see anyone who could have done it. Where is the master schemer and counter-intelligence genius who could have pulled it off? Because the way they're presented, I can see neither Delilah or the Duke in that role.