[Discuss] Title buying question

[Timothy Collett]

On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Nate Shupe wrote:
> Except for the fact that the officials WERE there, with Hvrek.  If  
> you see a man with "credentials" in a drunken haze, you're  
> generally just going to ignore him.  I just RPed that as the  
> rejection, and the acceptance of the claim for when the deputy  
> governor went to take the papers , seeing the actual content for  
> the first time, as valid.

See, I interpret each attempt as being a separate set of papers to be  
drawn up.  You can't have the first attempt be the officials seeing  
Hvrek in a bar and assuming he's full of it, and the second attempt  
be the deputy governor turning up and seeing the papers (even leaving  
aside the fact that nobles would never be seen in the same bar as  
local bureaucrats, who would in turn never be seen in the same bar as  
the peasants...).  Hvrek did not make two attempts to convince anyone  
in your RP.

To make an analogy, consider an infiltrator attempting to assassinate  
someone.  He tries once, and fails, with the message saying that the  
guards chased him off and were able to identify him.  He writes an RP  
saying that he snuck into the guy's room and tried to stab him, but  
missed, and the guy was so surprised he fell out of bed and broke his  
neck.  Yes, there was an attempt to stab him that failed, but the guy  
ended up dead--but the RP completely ignores what the game considers  
to have happened.  He was chased off and identified in between the  
first attempt (in his RP, the stab that missed) and the second (the  
guy falling out of bed and dying).

In your case, the first attempt should have ended with the documents  
scrutinized and recognized for the fakes they were.  The second  
should have ended with the *new* documents being scrutinized even  
harder (since you just brought them fakes), and then the somewhat  
frustrated officials apologizing and admitting that this set of  
documents is, indeed, legitimate, my Lord, and we're sorry we doubted  
you, but why did you bring us those fakes in the first place?  Or  
something in that general vein.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

PS. Yes, I fully realize that I'm picking nits, and I think that  
RPing it at all is admirable, and that what you wrote sounds pretty  
good--I just don't think that it fits the facts of *this specific  
case*, and will seize any opportunity to attempt to (in my view)  
improve the RP in the game :-)

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