how ignorant can you be?

[reapersaurus]

laiyna - you REALLY need some help in understanding how other people can percive situations.
Stop believing that the players have a direct line into what you are thinking.
They are dependant on MANY outside factors to determine what's going on.
Hell, they don't even know there's a wall they're going to walk into unless you tell them.

Your delusion that the player HAD to know is a huge sign that you are incorrectly attributing DM-knowledge to the players, and by extension their PC's.

Couple questions:
1) I agree with the others - WHY was the slave there?
2) You have GOT to be kidding me that in a society as you describe, where the player should have known that the slave would be killed for very little reason, but the player should believe that the owner would keep their word and not spy on this great secret??!!

It lloks like YOU are the one with the incredible amount of 'ignorance', if you really think the owner as you described wouldn't know everything that went on in the "private" room, and have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the whole thing, IYKWIM, AITYD.

 

[Leopold]

IYKWIM, AITYD.

i cannot believe this is an anacronym now..good lord we have gone to hell in a handbasket now...it took me 2 min to figure this out...

 

[Tsyr]

Yup, we have GTHIAHB

 

[Wicht]

i cannot believe this is an anacronym now..good lord we have gone to hell in a handbasket now...it took me 2 min to figure this out...

Unfortunately, I knew what it meant even as my eyes went over it.


And its all Hong's fault!

 

[Leopold]

Yup, we have GTHIAHB

ok i am lost on this one..

 

[Wicht]

ok i am lost on this one..

good lord we have gone to hell in a handbasket...

Originally posted by Tsyr
Yup, we have GTHIAHB

 

[Zerovoid]

I've got to jump on the band wagon here. I really thought you were setting the naive player/PC up to be shocked that they were getting the services of a blind and mute slave. Obviously, a good character would be suitably horrified that they had condoned this kind of mutilation for the sake of their own petty privacy.

Also, it sounds like you really forced this on the player, who tried to refuse the extra services. But you wanted to shock them, and show them how naive and ignorant they were, so you had the innkeeper insist until the player gave in.

Like people have said, a good slave is very expensive and valuable, and would certainly not be thrown away on a whim.

I think this might be a LN society, but the innkeeper seems CE to me. Now, I can see a very sick and twisted CE person doing this without a problem, and then trying to charge for the slave, since the PC had a blank check. But, I really don't think most people would have seen the killing come.

This doesn't have to result in an alignment change, since the PC didn't know it would happen. They did however, inadvertantly commit an evil act, so if they were a Paladin, I would temporarily strip them of their powers. A better result would be the good aligned PC's giving this deranged innkeeper a beat-down.

 

[KnowTheToe]

As to the original questions, How ignorant can someone be?

I think I can be very ignorant. Maybe a 7 out of 10 on a good day.

 

[reapersaurus]

Unfortunately, I knew what it meant even as my eyes went over it.


And its all Hong's fault!

Ya, I too blame hong.

For everything.

Life just tastes better that way.

 

[Leopold]

Ya, I too blame hong.

For everything.

Life just tastes better that way.

i think we either:

a. drove him off
b. it's bedtime in holland..


i hope it's b and not a. I really could use some more input on this thread..