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<blockquote data-quote="Mewness" data-source="post: 5350739" data-attributes="member: 14889">[sblock=ooc]I agree about the 4e parcels thing. Still, given how slow advancement in PbP is, bonus XP for a particularly good success would not go astray.OK. I still think that sabotaging Balsamae is a bad thing to do, but the point about his people trying to screw with us is well-taken. I would assume, though, that they are unlikely to get anywhere with Bwarli. Bwarli has more reason to trust us than to trust them, and he wants Hulgrimi cheered up for reasons that have nothing to do with Balsamae or us. Furthermore, he has promised to help us get our zocalti by any means necessary if trying to please Hulgrimi should fail. Unless that promise means nothing to him, he's only going to make trouble for himself by changing the terms of the competition to screw us over, since he may end up having to help us rob his boss.If we're worried about them screwing with Hulgrimi, we could (a) tell Bwarli to be on his guard and (b) have Jynxx hang around Hulgrimi being cute and entertaining and fending off anyone else's attempts to talk to Hulgrimi privately.As for finding out what Balsamae is cooking up, I'm all for it, although I'm not sure how to approach the problem. I don't know if anyone's likely to be able to get into his confidence, although finding out everything that Castofle knows about him would be a start. If he keeps notes, they're probably in Elvish or Imperial, which is a problem. I suppose Papolstaanas could just try snooping around looking at his ingredients, perhaps while everyone else distracts his thugs.[/sblock]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mewness, post: 5350739, member: 14889"] [sblock=ooc]I agree about the 4e parcels thing. Still, given how slow advancement in PbP is, bonus XP for a particularly good success would not go astray. OK. I still think that sabotaging Balsamae is a bad thing to do, but the point about his people trying to screw with us is well-taken. I would assume, though, that they are unlikely to get anywhere with Bwarli. Bwarli has more reason to trust us than to trust them, and he wants Hulgrimi cheered up for reasons that have nothing to do with Balsamae or us. Furthermore, he has promised to help us get our zocalti by any means necessary if trying to please Hulgrimi should fail. Unless that promise means nothing to him, he's only going to make trouble for himself by changing the terms of the competition to screw us over, since he may end up having to help us rob his boss. If we're worried about them screwing with Hulgrimi, we could (a) tell Bwarli to be on his guard and (b) have Jynxx hang around Hulgrimi being cute and entertaining and fending off anyone else's attempts to talk to Hulgrimi privately. As for finding out what Balsamae is cooking up, I'm all for it, although I'm not sure how to approach the problem. I don't know if anyone's likely to be able to get into his confidence, although finding out everything that Castofle knows about him would be a start. If he keeps notes, they're probably in Elvish or Imperial, which is a problem. I suppose Papolstaanas could just try snooping around looking at his ingredients, perhaps while everyone else distracts his thugs.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]

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