Talk:Summon Assassin/Names/@comment-24438839-20150914142632/@comment-16533050-20150915041624

@ Ox (TL/DR)

You seem to be thinking more game mechanics then actually explanations as to why (story-wise) this would happen, and with my assumptions that is what I am trying to do.

That's like saying... well, Corvo eats the can and all when he grabs the food from random places throughout the game... because we never hear the cans being opened or see the discarded tins afterwards.

The same with Daud's ability to zoom in on an object. Even if he has a spyglass (to explain away the dev oversight), he can somehow use it while having BOTH of his hands full.

Also, with regards to the food, how are people starving in the city? There's food like EVERYWHERE! I would guess then, since there is food but they are starving that they don't eat the food for sustenance. :P

Further examples of this would be a single hagfish that can be tossed three corpses to devour. Somehow this tiny fish is able to consume things that are three to five times its own mass and STILL be hungry. :P

Or those tiny glass cups found everywhere. Corvo/Daud can carry pistols, crossbow/wristbow, swords, bone charms, various grenades, various mines, springrazors, bullets, bolts of various types, all of their money/coin... and all of this heavy equipment they can lug about while using their full array of supernatural powers. However, if either picks up but one little glass cup, then they have to sheath their weapons and they can't use the majority of their special abilities. Taking away assumptions then, that single glass cup has the ability to negate the Outsider's Mark and powers.

Logically, and by the shortest route, all of my assertions above ring true, yet we know that is not the case because we take into account programming for the game, our own assumptions, and the use of story-elements to come to a more realistic conclusion.