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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kclark" data-source="post: 4204896" data-attributes="member: 60560">Love this idea.A fun "false negative" would be the duke rejecting your seemingly convincing arguments and entreaties. Despite your best efforts you end up getting rudely ushered out of the audience chamber with the duke bellowing at you to never show your face here again. Reality is the duke suspects one of his closest advisors and does not want to let on that he suspects him. So he sets up this ruse and sends the one man that he knows he can trust to rendevous with the party. The duke knew his trusted man couldn't handle everything by himself, but the party actually convinced the duke that they could.I think a scene like that could be fun to roleplay every now and then. The group seem to be doing everything right yet everything seems to go wrong. That right there should set some cogs spinning in their heads and you can choose to use the trusted man as the instigator of the party getting involved, or just be the reward for winning the social encounter as the trusted man can pull some strings along the way that they would not have been able to otherwise and get them on their way to the borderlands and stomping some lizardmen. Or best of all both, do some lizard stomping and now you got a fun hook that they can pursue afterwards.</blockquote>