Draw Steel General Thread [+]

[smcc360]

Update: they gave up on picking the lock and instead chose to carry the dwarf's corpse to the stables to threaten the stablehand into letting them in.

"Let us in, you little bastard. or we'll kill you! And that's not the worst part! After we kill you. we'll do thing to your corpse! Awful things! Explicit things! Oh, you don't believe me, do you? Think I'm bluffing, eh? I anticipated that! So we brought your friend here, to have a little demonstration! Boys, get that corpse's trousers off..."

 

[zakael19]

My players have chosen an...interesting way of dealing with a quest in the Delian Tomb. They annoyed one of the dwarves, breaking the negotiation, and then when he threw some coins at their feet the Fury snatched them out of the air and specifically threw the coins "at the dwarf's eyes". In the ensuing combat, they murdered the dwarf merchant, then lied to the stone mason that they'd negotiated for it.
They ten spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to pick a lock.
Update: they gave up on picking the lock and instead chose to carry the dwarf's corpse to the stables to threaten the stablehand into letting them in.

Ah, so like Greek heroes and not heroic fantasy heroes.

 

[gnarlygninja]

I am not sure I would let anyone in that apparently is incapable of getting in when they threaten me and drag around dead bodies. Seems safer to not let those people in…

"Let us in, you little bastard. or we'll kill you! And that's not the worst part! After we kill you. we'll do thing to your corpse! Awful things! Explicit things! Oh, you don't believe me, do you? Think I'm bluffing, eh? I anticipated that! So we brought your friend here, to have a little demonstration! Boys, get that corpse's trousers off..."

Sorry, left out context posting while playing. The stable worker was outside of the carriage house, which they wanted into because the shipment they were stealing was inside. When they learned the door was locked they made some weird assumptions that the stone merchant had forced the boy to lock the carriage house, so the Fury thought if they brought back the corpse the boy would go 'oh, ok, I haven o reason to keep this locked and can let you very shady people in' instead yelling "What the naughty word" and running away. No one in the fiction would have known they didn't know how to get past the lock, that was just them going 'does anyone have lockpicking as a skill?' out of character and then coming up with other plans and asking 'but does anyone have X as a skill?' before the Fury hatched her cunning plan.