willpell wrote:Belatedly it dawns on me that the color-shifting light might have some effect of making people pay more attention to what everyone says, a sort of magical acoustics enhancer that picks up the "vibe" of a person's speech and then saturates the room with it, not just visually but on undeniable awareness-levels. Otherwise, I have trouble understanding how Minmax would even be able to understand what Thaco said (since Thaco's back is turned to Minmax and he's talking to a person he's hugging, so his voice probably shouldn't carry very well without magical assistance), or have any real reason to pay attention to it (since he was just fighting these goblins five minutes ago, and is now preoccupied with his grief).
Or Thaco intentionally pitched his voice to be heard by the human.
If he wasn't at least partly aiming that line at Minmax, why would he use that odd-in-context word 'adventurer' instead of a more natural
explicit reference to Kore by name? Yes, it's also tapping into the old deeply rooted Goblin culture that classifies adventurers as a force of nature, not something you can really expect to win against... so it could be interpreted as intended to console Complains. And it probably does work on that level. All the same, this is the Goblins
Adventuring Party, so I'm pretty sure that's not the
whole of what's going through his agile mind at that moment.
In any case, I think you're on to something. I bet the IME-visible light does have some magical purpose (in addition to the self-evident artistic function of making this whole scene visually much more interesting). Let's speculate wildly about
what else it could be doing!
I'll start.
The light has now collected IMEs from all of them -- even Fumbles! Once they finally get around to trying to move on past this room, they could find the exit is locked, with a color-coded puzzle that will require each of them to speak a word in the correct order.