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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5924790" data-attributes="member: 19675">Oops!  You're 100% right!He doesn't need the 2 minutes- the full-round (6 sec) version with the -10 mid will still probably result in an 80+% success rate (I haven't actually done the numbers).  That's probably good enough.However, "friendly" isn't an eternal state since this is non-magical.  If your people were targeted for genocide by his forces and you knew it and he didn't speak to you for 17 days, "friendly" Would evaporate into "hostile" pretty much instantaneously.Hey, sometimes "friendly" simply isn't good enough.  History is full of people who killed their friends and family- honor killings*, "just business", "for the greater good", etc.I can think of a few people who do without those conveniences, and not all of them are Unabomber/OBL types.  Now, none of those I know personally are violent, but one is a retired Army demolitions expert. (He likes his solitude.)The thing is, someone not in thrall to the LeShay with the proper skillset could still get access to the necessary equipment if he or she is wise enough.  The guys guarding the munitions in "Landru's" world don't have magic powers to determine whether someone is still loyal.  A little wax a la Odysseus and he won't hear enough to become enthralled.  Ditto a set of fake earpieces (see multiple episodes of Dr Who).Then there are the survivalists who have pirate and/or shortwave radio.As for the Internet...when has ANYONE been convinced of ANYTHING contra to their personal viewpoints on the Internet? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But using intermediaries won't work.  They won't be as convincing.  People slam the door on Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons and Hare Krishnas every day.  They change channels from CNN or Fox to watch The Cartoon Network.Even if he takes over all the radio and tv stations simultaneously, some people will turn them off.If he uses the EBS system, people will tune out once they realize there's no tornado, hurricane or Amber alert, thinking its some joker playing a prank.* by "honor killing", I mean in the broadest possible sense any killing in any culture related to the preservation of personal, familial, institutional, religious, political, business or other honor.</blockquote>

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