Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181201123231/@comment-4141313-20181204040655

Arkantos95 wrote: No, it didn't. That is literally nowhere in its abilities as described in the show. There's not magnification, only sapping. Otherwise why the hell would Brunswick take them there for the express purpose of calming negative emotions? This is, by the by, something he did only after discussing with a Huntsman, someone who would be an expert on the subject. We see the corpse of the Huntsman in the photo of Brunswick Farms though, in the tunnel RWBY and Maria are running through. And his corpse has decayed to nothing but a skeleton and clothing, meaning he didn't just up and die in his sleep like the others did, implying he died at the hands of the Apathy like they tried to do to Blake.

If he was really an expert on the subject, why would he even confront them, even if he was under the belief it was still just the two, on his own? If just being about 10-20 above them affects you, considering some were at the cellar in the basement and the cast was on the ground floor, why would he think confronting them would be a good idea? For that matter, if he was an expert on the subject, why would he even follow Bartleby's dumb plan to begin with? Not only would it be incredibly dangerous and stupid, it would counterintuitive since the entire point of Bartleby getting them was to calm down the farms since his farm was hemmoraging money, meaning he couldn't afford to pay the huntsmen. Doing what Bartleby wanted is about the same as ensuring the huntsman loses his job.