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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8172520" data-attributes="member: 42856">Alfred: "and this way, the NCEST (nameless, cowardly, elusive, shadowy target) will be located unerringly by the power of maths!"Rufus: "or, more exactly, the power of two."Alfred: "indeed. Am I not a master investigator?"Rufus: "yes you are, so you could put this finding ability to good use and fetch me my food."Alfred, sighing: "why didn't I take a dog?"Rufus: "because a dog isn't smart as I am, and you are about to spend valuable time while there is an even easier way?"Alfred: "O RLY?"Rufus: "I AM NOT A LOLCAT" (proceeds to cast fireball)Alfred, counterspelling: "OK, then tell me..."Rufus: "Your error was to use a spellcasting glyph to trigger the alarm. Glyph of Warding also haves the provision that "If the spell summons Hostile creatures or creates harmful Objects or traps, they appear as close as possible to the intruder and Attack it."Alfred: "I see where you're going. With, say, Summon Construct having a range of 90 feet, I inscribe a glyph triggered by "the person I am tasked to kill being present within 1 light-year on this plane of existence" and I just wait until he steps on the prime, which should be nearly immediate if he isn't totally paranoid or a planeswalker, and the spell will pop a Construct that will go to attack him. Of course the construct has no way of knowing where to go and will idle quizzically, but I can draw the line between the center of the glyph where the spell is cast from and the 90 feet distance towrd which the construct appeared... I have a decent bearing, then I teleport somewhere distant not along that line, proceed to do the exact same thing, so I can draw the lines on a map and get a rough identification of his location... Next, I'll be doing it closer to the X on the map, until the construct reaches him within an hour.  It will probably take a few tries because well, the distance to measure the bearing are far too short, but I'll quicken my search!"Rufus: "You're a bright one. You won the right to scratch my head."[Of course, it will be foiled because NCEST has lost the ability to return to the prime material place in a controllable location, but at this time, neither Alfred nor Rufus could know that. Determining how much it will be foiled can only be explained by the OP, because we don't know if NCEST tries to get to a precise location or juste Planeshift randomly back to the Prime].</blockquote>

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