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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imagicka" data-source="post: 3171818" data-attributes="member: 4621">Greetings… Ahh, a pity I was late to the party here... but since I already wrote the rest... Well, as for the secretary, I wouldn’t let her die, or kill her remotely as Skippy suggested.  After all, who’s going to do all the filing, typing and answer the phones?   Considering you have the secretary’s finger, what’s from stopping you from Scrying or Remote-Viewing where she’s being held?   Oh, and of course… since they were trying to show you how serious they were by cutting off her finger, I would cut off Ishimura’s hand, with some witty banter such as: “Oh, and this is for messing with my secretary’s typing skills.” *CHOP* Personally, I don’t like GMs who give you nothing for when you get a roll so high it rates as an ‘impossible’ success.  He should have given you something.  Or told you why you didn’t get anything.  That kinda thing makes me think that the GM isn’t thinking things entirely through, or adjusts the situation after the fact.   I hate it when you try something and the GM stone-walls you because he’s now retroactively adjusting things.  For me, its akin to cheating.  If the GM overlooked something, that’s his fault;  (s)he should have either prepared more, or given more thought to the situation.  ”Well, the BBEG would have of course planned on the fact that you might try to Scry him. That’s why he has magickal protection.  No, I don’t know what kinda protection that is, but I’m sure he would!” – Whenever I think the GM is trying to pull that crap, I start doing things like: Get the GM to make list of security measures that Ishimura and the BBEG have taken, and once he’s made his list, then you ask him.  “Okay, do any of your security measures include protection from scrying?  Because that’s what I’m doing; I’m going to see where the secretary is by scrying her location.  Does having the finger give us any kind of bonus?” No offense, but Skippy’s ideas really blow.  Killing the secretary would be fine, if you’re evil, and you don’t care about the rest of your families.  But killing the secretary is just going to cause more headaches than it’s worth.  First, you’ll be responsible for her death, and then your just going to have to find someone else to make the coffee.  Now do you really want to go through that hassle?   Attempting to break the neck of Ishimura is sounds much too difficult.  I wouldn’t make that an ‘easy’ task, and if you do it wrong, well… you’ve just killed your only living lead.  Now, killing him might be a good idea if you can then raise him from the dead and/or communicate with the dead.  Just make sure that he doesn’t have some sort of arcane protection. But if your going to do something to intimidate the BBEG/lawyer.  I think cutting off his hand would be good enough.  Not to mention, make sure you make the GM understand that is what your intent is; to intimidate. Destroy the armour?   Are you kidding me?  Now, making it look like you’ve destroyed the armour might be a good idea.  But outright destroying it isn’t going to make you look ruthless.  It’s just going to make you look stupid, because you’ve just gotten rid of your only bargaining chip, and probably get your families and secretary killed.  But hey, look on the bright side.  You can start your career as a criminal, and you won’t have to worry about your pesky relatives anymore.  Nor will you have to worry about friends, because you probably won’t have any either!</blockquote>

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