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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dichotomy" data-source="post: 5014761" data-attributes="member: 12941">Erdolliel picks up her sword and moves closer to her prey.  Kushnak follows, waiting to stop any violence, but none is forthcoming.Unfazed, at least outwardly, Nethezar continues his exposition on civil service.  "Right now, there is an old lady in the Garden District that needs your help crossing a street.  Go find her."  One of the remaining guards quickly moves to oblige.<a href="http://img134.imageshack.us/i/78302180.png/" target="_blank"><img src="http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3203/78302180.th.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>[sblock=OOC]In my opinion, picking up her sword is similar to, but not as threatening as, drawing a weapon.  I THINK that I'm going to give Neth a new perform check, rather than auto-end the fascination.  Is that acceptable?  Or should that be enough of a threat to end the fascination?Also, I discussed this some with o3.  Some of this is just re-hashing that, but some of this goes beyond that a bit.  I think it might be okay to ready to do X if either A or B happens.  I don't think it is okay to ready to do X if A happens or do Y if B happens.  I also don't think Kushnak can ready to enable an AoO against "either a spell or melee," since melee attacks in general don't provoke an AoO.On the other hand, I think "ready to enable himself to make an AoO" is perfectly acceptable.  The problem, however, is that o3 would then need to communicate under what circumstance he might chose to TAKE an AoO, since you can always opt to not take one when given the chance (presumably so that you can "save" it for later).I don't want to make this any more complicated than necessary.  For THIS round, I'm assuming that Kushnak is readying to enable himself to make an AoO, and therefore following Erdolliel.  I'm also assuming that Kushnak chose to NOT take the AoO that he could have when Erdolliel picked up her sword.If this is problematic, let me know.  I'm trying to not ruffle too many feathers.  Would it be helpful if you guys posted your actions (temporarily) in sblocks to me?  Assuming that Ti could exercise enough restraint to not read them...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Kushnak: readiesErdolliel: picks up sword; movesKushnak: ready triggers, follows3: fascinatedNethezar: new perform check 14+, will saves 4, 19, 9, all fail; suggestion to #4, will save 3+ fail2: fascinated4: leavesBack to Kushnak, then Erdolliel.Initiative3Nethezar2Kushnak:Erdolliel (9): 11 nonlethal[/sblock]</blockquote>

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