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In all seriousness, though; how many members does each team have, out of curiosity? Words and rune counts are irrelevant))

((Which team is yours? Magma or Aqua Aether or Bismuth?))

Use cooks and Light-Heat thing to finish off the soup.

Grab a respirator, then fly out the window and into the city. Are there any nearby villains?

Ask for bandage. And haemophilia medication.
Heal shin.

Rick continues trying to get to shore with his new body with the aid of his water powers. "Is there any thang I can do to help you, little buddy? You done helped me out a lot with that thar cage, and I'm aimin' to return the favor."

Do nothing! Let mutation happen naturally.

Get out of the creek, follow it to something interesting.

Respond to the question by punching the guy and driving off.

CRAZY PUNCH EVERYONE! HAHAHAH!

Does the cage go to the floor or ceiling?  Try to go out through the top/bottom weak point.

"May I see one syringe? Is very interesting, I must take look." Surreptitiously slip one of the syringes into jacket pocket. "Ah yes, is very good test then, all adequate and normal."
If sleight of hand doesn't work, whip out cell phone and start talking in unknown foreign language, occasionally interjecting English "Okay Suzie!" In other words, call superiors and ask for further instruction.

Yawn. Go to sleep.

seek more booze and cookies

Because mine had the good sense to encode hers? O.o

And it's not like it'll change anything. I'm in the bloody motherland. None of you are anywhere near me.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on April 17, 2013, 05:40:53 pm

Also, how are we supposed to read ragnarok's action?

Short answer: You're not. :p

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on April 17, 2013, 05:24:19 pm

Since this seems the core of your argument, I'll hack at it.
Why do you think Owen will think we don't have friends we could send him to? If I was Owen, I'd consider the possibility that Stone sent his claimant, should he exist, somewhere else and wouldn't limit my search (or else I'd have an advisor who would do so).

My argument does have a core, at least. Yours does not. If you intend to argue that Owen will find him in Percival's manor, then you are surely planning on Owen finding him here in ours...

That means you anticipate Owen knowing and rallying his supporters against us directly.

If we're clean, he has to keep looking, and he will have limited time and resources to do so. If we're dirty, the race stops there. Some of the potency of the unknown immediately evaporates, and we have the possibility of defnding against a direct assault, which is a blessedly boneheaded way of protecting Arthur, btw.

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But why doesn't he need protection?

Because he won't be found.

And if he is, we still stand in the way of his capture by geography alone.

You have already admitted that you expect Owen to find him in Feroshire,

so what I want to know now is how you plan to proceed with a delicate campaign of whispers and subterfuge after owen can shrug and pin it all on us,

and how you plan to prosecute the defense of Feroshire when Owen can openly rally his supporters against us while we are caught off-foot in a ludicrous mush of a plan where we're expecting to be discovered in the midst of a plan dependent on not being discovered.

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No, I'm relying on keeping the reality of the claimant more secret, Feroshire's defenses, and so forth. And the fact that there's already suspicions that Owen will attack us, which gives us the ability to send back investigations into our land searching for the claimant much more justifiably than if we needed to keep the secret in someone else's lands.

Perception is reality. The perception that we're involved is dangerous, no matter how high our walls and impenetrable our security. I'd rather not have Arthur here and make of show of aiding the search here than remaining dark to his searches with or without Arthur inside our walls.

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The simple issue is, Owen isn't the old Count; we can't assume he's a moron. If he's not, we can't assume he'll limit his search to Feroshire. If we stash him in Percival's land or somewhere, we can't keep an eye off him or justify sending the inevitable investigations away.

But you're assuming he will not find Arthur here,

while for some reason easily finding him in a rural manor of no note.

Owen has no right to search for the claimant anyway. It's not an investigation.

Even if we keep Arthur and we know that certain men are supporters of Owen asking around, what we would want to do then is welcome them openly and give them the entire town to search and hope Arthur stays hidden somehow. Perception that we might have him is the same as having him.

At the very least, we need a role less conspicuous than our second squire and a relationship less notable than cousin if he stays here and rubs shoulders with our people for two months. I regret suggesting either of those.