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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 7008974" data-attributes="member: 16814">What's the social situation?  Is your friend of a higher social rank?  If so, have him be insulted by the characters and throw them out.  Does the party have authority to use magic compulsion in their investigation?  If not, have your friend become insulted and call the authorities.What's the downside of refusing to meet with the party?  If lower than risking a ZoT, refuse to deal with rude people casting magical compulsions in your home and leave.  If the party threatens, inform the authorities.In general, if there's any kind of society that this is taking place in, it's probably not a cool move to barge into someone's home and cast compulsions on them.  At best it's extremely rude, at worst it's illegal.  Depending on the social standing of your friend, that can cause a great deal of trouble for the party.Sorry, I tend to approach things like this by not allowing a murder-hobo approach -- characters don't exist outside of the society they're in.  I go for a light touch -- it is a game of heroes and not of learning about how disproportionate social structures work -- but I draw the line at obviously rude behavior or being allow to use magic as a simple shortcut unless it's often used that way by the society.  If everyone always expects the [-]Spanish Inquisition[/-] ZoT, fine, but I like it when no one does."Fetch the Comfy Chair!"</blockquote>