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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3346827" data-attributes="member: 29252">That can be more powerful than you might imagine.Suppose you have 21 spellcasters with the Imp familiar going about their tasks (21 7th level casters - not hard in a large city).Any given day of the week, you've got 18 questions (three sets of six).Suppose you want to know who is going to commit the worst offense against the one in charge (however that's defined).All you need is a pre-mapped set of questions to narrow the culprit down to 1.  If you track everyone by name and description when they come in, and ask about it on a binary-search type pattern, you can individually identify who is going to commit the most grevious offense.  To 1 in 2^18 (262,146).  Well, 2^17 (131,073) as first you need to find out if it is someone on your list (which takes a question).  Every single day, the person who is going to commit the "worst crime" (as defined by a lawful-evil government....) receives capital punishment arbitrarily.  Publish how it works.  Crooks will be vying to reform.  You see, everyone wants someone else to be the one today... and to do that, they have to make sure someone else is going to commit a worse crime.... which means that, unless they can somehow coerce a worse crime out of someone else, they have to tone down their criminal behavior.After a while, you're executing people who were just tossed out for not paying the rent... as they were going to be vagrants that evening.</blockquote>

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