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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fraggleonacid" data-source="post: 1782692" data-attributes="member: 8354"><p>Yeah, if the drawer hadn't been trapped, in ways that are hard for a group of our level to determine, then we might have gone for the cut and run.  Unfortunately the trap added to the locked gates would appear to make a quick getaway problematic; what if the drawer doesn't contain what we are looking for, but does contain the weekly wages?  We open the drawer, trigger the alarm and have to fight the entire compound all at once, with the likely bonus of involving the Flaming Fist, when all we have for 'evidence' is a handful of looted cash in our pockets; how would that look?  It just struck me, I can't speak for everyone else, that the way we went about it was more, rather than less, likely to ensure our survival and give us time to obtain our objectives.  It is also worth bearing in mind that the longer the rest of the town remains in the dark about what we've been up to, the better chance we have to make our getaway - especially if we find nothing (which, in character, we have to retain as a possibility).  The only way this will happen is if we bump off all the significant members of the Costa; which I will admit is a more than a bit ruthless.  Just as well Gylippus is CN really; what's everyone else's excuse...?</p></blockquote><p></p>