Problem...
If you want a villain to be taken seriously, he's gotta be dangerous. If your villain captures the hero and then starts monologuing or puts him into the unnecessarily slow deathtrap and leaves, you're writing camp, not adventure fiction.
When the villain has your hero helpless due to a poison dart, the villain's first impulse should be "Kill him!" -- unless he has a compelling reason to keep your character prisoner.
If the villain has a compelling reason to keep your character prisoner, any non-idiot will strip your hero, bind him hand-and-foot, and keep an eye on him.
Which makes it really hard to come up with a convincing way for the hero to escape. 0.o Gah! Stupid plot being hard!
-The Gneech
If you want a villain to be taken seriously, he's gotta be dangerous. If your villain captures the hero and then starts monologuing or puts him into the unnecessarily slow deathtrap and leaves, you're writing camp, not adventure fiction.
When the villain has your hero helpless due to a poison dart, the villain's first impulse should be "Kill him!" -- unless he has a compelling reason to keep your character prisoner.
If the villain has a compelling reason to keep your character prisoner, any non-idiot will strip your hero, bind him hand-and-foot, and keep an eye on him.
Which makes it really hard to come up with a convincing way for the hero to escape. 0.o Gah! Stupid plot being hard!
-The Gneech
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Or someone on the hero's side disguised as a guard or something?
"Shh. Just play along." she whispered.
"The Boss wants this little creep transferred."
Or something along those lines.
Elves are traditionally connected to nature. There's got to be something he can talk to to cause trouble and/or get a slight advantage.
-TG
Now a truely smart villian would take some time to bind your hero's powers as well, but that might take a bit of time in a quiet place.
However, thinking about the possibilities given what I've written about Soloman's use of magic in the past has given me some ideas. Quick, Robin, to the bat-Wordpad!
-The Gneech
However things work tho. :)
Oh, wait, wrong brand.
"Yes, crucify him. An unnecessarily painful and very slow death. And let's do it out in the wilderness, far away from where we can watch and make sure that he doesn't, y'know, survive and return to kill us or anything. Yeah, that should do. Y'know, maybe we should leave a fast horse and some swords nearby, for when he escapes and comes to kill us..."
FWIW, the original REH tale that particular scene was taken from, made much more sense.
-TG
Kinky! ^.^
Lizard Rat out.
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If your villain is a leader-type rather than a lone operative, then he probably has other things he needs to do - he's not going to be personally standing guard over the hero. And underlings almost never have the same sense of connectedness to the security of the prisoner; underlings are usually just average schmoes with a somewhat out-of-the-ordinary boss. As such, the guards are likely to slack off, particularly if the hero appears to be rather boringly just laying there, tied up, on the floor. The hero is, of course, lulling them into a false sense of security...
Of course if it was me, I would of stripped the hero nakid, and locked him in an iron maiden, suspended over a pit of sharp spikes and nasty bitie things...