[UA] And speaking of gathering charges...

[Jade Hammons]

It really depends on which character is the NPC. It's PC's that actually
show up for the auctions, only to be thwarted when trying to get what they
want by the NPC. That's how you decide the winner of that little contest ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Dohnim" <bibadoo at hotmail.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: RE: [UA] And speaking of gathering charges...


> That's true, of course. I was just clearing up the point re the power of
an
> Executioner's glance. And I think we all know that the only cool auctions
> are the ones where everyone is standing around raising their little cards
or
> shouting out bids, while the auctioneer talks really really fast :).
>
>
>
> >From: Dean Reilly <retrophrenologist at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> >To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> >Subject: RE: [UA] And speaking of gathering charges...
> >Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:11:43 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >I don't see the difficulty- a Bibliomancer could well phone in his bid,
> >while remaining safe in his library.
> >  Susan Dohnim <bibadoo at hotmail.com> wrote:The 51-70% power, silly.
> >
> >"At this level, you develop the death's head stare. If you lock eyes with
> >someone and make a successful Avatar roll, you can force him to make a
> >stress check against Violence (in this case, the fear of death). THe
level
> >of the stress check is equal to the highest die you rolled. (For example,
> >if
> >you rolled a 27, it would be a rank-7 check)."
> >
> >The bookworm might love to get his hands on that little collection, but
> >he's
> >going to have to make it through the rank-7 Violence check first.
> >
> >And my guess is he doesn't have that many hardened notches :).
> >
> >I agree, of course, that if he whacked the bookworm, he'd be violating
> >taboo. But this isn't a trivial "glance", as someone said.
> >
> >
> > >From: "Rayburn, Russell E."
> > >
> > >So enlighten us. However, I'd have a hard time justifying an
executioner
> > >that didn't kill.
> > >
> > >I do agree with Jade... if the executioner decides all on his own to
> >whack
> > >the bookworm, he'd violate taboo.
> >
> >
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