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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Lordship: A Suggestion Game
« on: March 04, 2013, 10:12:41 pm »Implications further down the line don't matter much when his men hack you to pieces.This isn't a video game; the Count isn't bright, but he's smart enough to realize that killing a noble doing a perfectly legal action, especially when suspected of trying to kill said noble, is a fast track to demotion and death, if lucky.
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The Count can't predict the fall-out from you having an "accident" in his city,So? Don't stay in the city for long, keep soldiers with you.
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Implications won't matter when you move overland, and they catch up to you.Yes, they will, because they keep the men from being sent.
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You've got the man who ends everything for the Count, his damned nephew-in-law, as you endlessly reminded me last time, who we shouldn't antagonize him by abducting. Now, one piece of paper without a single extra soldier to enforce it has seemingly been a game changer and makes you stride into his lands and be surrounded by his men and horses confidently.Look.
The difference isn't the paper, it's the entire kingdom except the Count and Sir Stone.
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Your argument this time is that our paper means something, that if the Count catches up to us, that paper means our life rather than we go missing without a trace. Be logical. It's far better to catch us and dispose of us than risk his nephew-in-law talking, whatever the fall-out of a upjumped peasant disappearing.Look, the reason the paper matters is that we can actually persecute the merchant without breaking laws.
Why is this important?
Before, if the Count attacked us back, in the eyes of the law and the Crown he would have been right, so we would have been against everyone else.
Now, if he does so, he will be fighting the whole kingdom.
How the heck does the Count hide that Sir Stone and his men all mysteriously died right after he sent out his cavalry in their direction?
Can we just poison the bastard like we talked about when we first met him?!No. That's kinda illegal, and would end VERY badly for us WHEN discovered.
Oh, because nothing people do these days was done in those days?Thankfully, we'll be taking him lawfully. How do police officers do it?What the hell is a police officer? Are you even trying to pretend that this is the middle ages?
Look, people keep prisoners from fleeing during transport and have ever since there's been a concept of "prisoner." We have a few dozen soldiers; he's a merchant. We can manage him.
