Quote Originally Posted by Seiryuukishi View Post
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You're missing the point, completely. First, teleportation requires concentration and time. When you scale up the cast time to real world time, it's almost 2 minutes. Do you think Ilberd would just sit there and let us cast? Second, sure many of us wanted to strike out at Ilberd and Teleji. Luckily, our character is smarter than we are. We were caught off guard, out numbered, and out manned in a coup d'etat. Teleji marched into the Chamber of Rule, completing disregarding the law, admitted regicide, and started a coup d'etat. At that point, anything we could have done would have been useless. Any claims of innocence were unneeded, since no one believed we did it, and would be unheeded, since Teleji would just accuse uf of lying. Any attempt to fight back would be an excuse to kill us as Ilberd could say it was proof of guilt. The best thing to do was what we did, keep our mouth shut, not fight back, and let the situation play itself out looking for a chance to escape, but that's the only way we were going to get out free and alive. Neither the admiral nor the star seer could do anything as that would risk a civil war within Eorzea. Raubahn acted, sure, but look what it got him - one less arm and imprisoned.

We were simply outnumbered, out gunned, and out maneuvered, and when that happens, you shut up and look for a way out.