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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 923995" data-attributes="member: 7240">Well, Scarbonac, please try to take it down a notch.Well, I've repeatedly stated (a) the palace is guarded; (b) the guards had standing orders to allow the characters to see the duke. In addition, (a) the duke was not in his bedroom; (b) the duke was not resting; (c) the guards were not ready to let the sorceror in but his statements in the 12 seconds after his arrival (including his intimidate and diplomacy rolls with a +4 charisma bonus) were sufficient to cause them to follow him into the chamber where the duke was meeting with another person rather than engaging him in combat, in case he was telling the truth.I accidentally walked up to his house when I was wandering through the streets of a residential neighbourhood in Harare in 1992 and inadvertently walked up to his house; I was subsequently stopped by men with machine guns.So, in other words, you don't actually know that what I've stated is impossible under the rules. You have decided that I must be breaking the rules because I'm doing things differently than you would. As you know I'm not going to do anything of the kind; however, you cannot argue that it is clear I'm violating the rules at the same time as you argue that you lack sufficient information to determine which rules I'm violating.Actually, Lightning Bolts make exploding noises and I'll note, vampires do not have a special vulnerability to electricity. Sorry to disappoint.In case you haven't picked this up from my synopsis of episodes 19-21, the duke is, himself, evil and, in fact, a patron of the darkness god. In fact, his brother is the god's high priest; however, unbeknownst to the duke, his brother has allied with the vampires in the hopes of succeeding him to the ducal throne. Thus, while the duke thought he was placing the only mainstream clerics friendly to his interests in charge of the defenses, he ended up placing people even more hostile to his power in that position than if he'd let the sky god clerics who volunteered do the job.One of the major themes in my campaign is the internal squabbling between different evil factions. The previous season was a race between two different evil factions (1 led by the duke, the other by foreign invaders) to control the opening of a planar gate beneath the city. To give you a better sense of the duke's nature, his family name is Vichy. I have to ask, what is it that I've said to cause you to take such an increasingly hostile tone about me and everyone I associate with. People miss the obvious all the time -- especially when they're overwhelmed with details and new developments coming at them from all quarters. Haste can be used to increase a character's speed by providing him with an extra partial action per round. Perhaps, after asserting your intellectual superiority over me and my friends, you might want to consider how such a piece of information escaped your notice.In response to Numion'sWhere did you get the sense I was unconcerned? Such a thing has never before happened in my campaign; surely my resort to this forum in the first place is indicative of my concern.</blockquote>

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