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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrahn" data-source="post: 1226718" data-attributes="member: 9191">“Father, while I love you dearly, I can not stand by and watch you kill more innocent people.  If you do not hand over your power now, we will come to blows and you will most likely be forced to kill me.  Is your power worth that?” Man walks up to another man looking at the sky, “Hard to believe it is green isn’t it?”“Huh?  The sky is blue.”“Well, yeah, you and I see it as blue, but it is really green?”“What are you talking about?”“Haven’t you heard the story of the questing knight and the elf queen, the story of the first Half-Elf?”“Um, no.”“Well it is a pretty long story, but the long and the short of it is, the Questing Knight and the Elf Queen fell in love a long time ago.  Eventually the Knight died and the Queen was left heart broken.  She beseeched the elven gods to aid her and with great remorse they told her that humans and elves walk under a different sky.”“So what?”“Well the elven gods left a reminder to humanity, changed the sky blue for us, to remind us that we walk under a different sky, live in a different world than elves and that our union will only lead to heart break.”“So you’re telling me the sky is really green?”“Well yes in actuality, though we see it as blue, for the Elven Queen’s sorrow.  Next time you see an elf, or any other race, ask them…”Of course that works best in the situation where there is little likelihood of running into another race.As far as hiding in a barren room, that is a pretty common magicians trick.  Camouflage, from the right angles is all that is required.Saying that any of the above are impossible is to overstate the case.  To say that to make the lich turn over his power with diplomacy or hide in a barren room requires significant preparation and/or the right circumstances is more accurate.  As far as the bluff goes though, you greatly under estimate the gullibility of people.  All you need is the right lie and people will doubt even their own senses.  Finding that lie (which of course is the hard part) is why there is the bluff skill.</blockquote>

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