Re: cooperation

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Boris Karpa wrote:

> >When they come, I give them a tour.  While I distract them, my band or
> >rrakma hit Estress from behind and kill him as quickly and brutally as
> >possible.  Meanwhile, I put a dagger in the throat of the <gith word for
> >"ancestral enemy of my people";  not complimentary>-loving treasonous
> >little b***h Fiona.
>
> The little b***h is a high level psionicist/fighter/mage/thief and uses a
> sword of Dismemberment to disarm people. Cuts their hand off with the
> weapon.

Assuming, of course, that she didn't get caught off-guard (i.e.
surprised).  I doubt she's got the sword out during the tour, and it's
hard to use a sword effectively against someone in your face with a knife.

Of course, let's say that I was aware of this (not unreasonable, since I
would have checked her rep out before signing on) and didn't want to risk
the Sword of Dismemberment.   So me and the rest of the rrakma overbear
her, and then cut her throat while she's in a 5-point restraint and trying
to hammer through our psionic defenses.  (We're all gith here.  We're all
psionic.)

A five-point restraint effectivly immobilizes her (defeating any
possiblility of using weapons, most spells, or thief abilities).  She can
use verbal-only spells in theory, but I'm also stabbing her in the throat
(which is known to break a mage's concentration).  Her psionic attacks are
busy deflecting off our psionic defense modes - even if she's more
powerful than us, it will take her time to hammer through, and she doesn't
have the time.

If she manages to escape anyway, we planeshift to the Astral and inform
the Lich-Queen of what she is doing.  Life begins to suck for her if she
pursues us.

Richard Gant
(Or there's always poison.)
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