As quoted by Skeeve above, they knew which house to skim to. Therefore there is no issue with how things went down.
You need to be very familiar with the place you are going to - it will take you from anywhere at all to a fairly narrow set of destinations. Travelling is the opposite. Learning a place is not trivial, which is the only reason skimming is even used.
The house was only chosen during the attack, which does not leave enough time to prepare the place for skimming (unless you take the view that Guybon was crazy prepared and had the Kin prepare a gateway into a house in every street of the city. I don't think that's likely.)
The Kin have been in Caemlyn for months and their knowledge of specific areas could well have been incorporated into the plan from the beginning.
Mat: "I have an idea"
Sumeko: "it will have to be in one of the following areas so I can make the gateway"
Mat: "Okay, I'll set it up to end up in one of these places and send a messenger to you when it's finalized"
Sumeko: "For a man you are only sort of stupid"
Domani Drag Queen in the White Tower ... Aran'gar watch out!
An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 04:52:54 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 10:23:23 AM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 03:41:10 PM
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I dissagree
- 24/12/2010 07:09:41 PM
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Yes, RJ confirmed that Shadowspawn can't survive gateways. *NM*
- 24/12/2010 07:39:02 PM
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And then BS confirmed that gholam are "more perfected" Shadowspawn which can. 
*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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*NM*
- 24/12/2010 08:35:34 PM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 11:29:33 AM
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"They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 12:27:02 AM
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Re: "They had not known where-or if-the gholam would attack him"
- 25/12/2010 02:05:07 AM
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They prepared a place, and it just happened to be within walking distance of the attack?
- 25/12/2010 09:44:34 AM
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Please re-read the chapter. It expalins a lot.
- 25/12/2010 04:05:50 PM
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Your quote shows what happened.
- 26/12/2010 05:33:44 AM
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Likely picked from a handful of pre-determined locations based on where and when the attack occurred
- 31/12/2010 08:47:20 PM
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Perhaps, but I don't think so.
- 01/01/2011 01:19:12 AM
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Not realty. Caemlyn is huge by the standards of the time but realistically it's tiny
- 01/01/2011 06:05:06 AM
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The sizes I proposed are not huge (well, they would be by standards in the middle ages but not now)
- 04/01/2011 06:37:50 AM
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I believe Caemlyn is less than 300k people .... That's what .05% the size of London?
- 30/01/2011 06:02:50 PM
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You aren't seriously comparing modern population densities to medieval ones, are you? *NM*
- 30/01/2011 09:23:57 PM
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That would be an error if it hadn't been Skimming (the platform and what not) they were using.
- 25/12/2010 02:29:39 AM
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It is an error because they opened a skimming gateway to the house (from the skimming place)
- 25/12/2010 09:47:08 AM
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I'm confused now as to what you're arguing. They knew the location of the house.
- 26/12/2010 08:54:17 PM
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You need to know more than just where you are going
- 27/12/2010 06:59:21 AM
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Please find me a supporting quote in one of the books.
- 27/12/2010 12:48:45 PM
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Well, from Encyclopaedia WOT, and aCoS
- 28/12/2010 01:02:42 AM
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I stand corrected. Though I will say that the uses in the books don't match the definition.
- 28/12/2010 02:17:43 PM
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Not that hard if you think about it
- 30/01/2011 09:39:34 PM
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Re: An annoying gateway error.
- 24/12/2010 12:22:38 PM
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