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Throwing in my hat for FNG!
I'm not a no - do I get first pick on FNG because I haven't been part of one of these before? :P
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here is one of the few times in all my years (like 6 or whatever) that I've actively seen a player voluntarily set their character up to have a disadvantage that they didnt plan for in the beginning, is this like wizardry or something


I've never understood why people resist having flaws or weaknesses so much. We're not RPing to be the most powerful or successful character, we're RPing to tell a good story, and stories love a loser. An opportunity to get awesomely screwed isn't a penalty, it's a gift. :P

Also? I LOVE the vision.
Sorry for the double post! Just read your last reply @Sisyphus, and yeah, I pretty much agree with everything. It largely works on non-magical people, but I feel like there should be a small percentage of just purely special regular people who aren't inquisitors who can endure it. Is that cool?


Sure. Would it be possible for Hassan to not know about that? I think him finding out that there's regular people who can ignore the world would be a cool scene to watch happen - probably shake up his whole world view.
I mean, as I conceived the character, there's basically no limit to how far he can push a normie - if he told someone to put a gun in their mouth and fire, they'd have to do it. The balancing factors are that it doesn't work on etherically talented people at all (who I'd imagine are going to be the real threats to the inquisitors in the RP anyway), that it's also probably possible to rig up some device/ether-powered headgear for normies to block it, and that it's really all he has going for him - just about any other PC could beat the everliving hell out of him, and his infiltration training is secondary.

It's also a pretty important part of his personality; he's a man-child with too much power and he knows it, and he has an enormous amount of difficulty seeing people as people rather than tools because... well, look at what he can do. Ultimately, it's @Lovejoy's call - if the GM says it's too much juice for one character to have, I'll tone it down.
@Lovejoy@Sisyphus RIGHT? Such trouble. And he's used to getting what he wants. He's lucky the Inquisition kept him on a short leash for all those years, because he's totally going to get in trouble with them and with EVERYONE. ^.^;;

By the way, can people he's commanded tell they were ordered, or is it like it was their idea? What about afterwards, or the next day?


While it's happening, they don't know that they're being controlled - it's not necessarily like it was their idea, more like they're just absolutely convinced that listening to Hassan is the thing to do, even if they're not sure why. Afterwards, most people will start to wonder why they did that and they'll probably put two and two together; the girl with the dogs, for example, is probably pretty dazed and confused about the whole thing, but about at this point she'd be starting to get it.
Oh shit. Something tells me one day Hassan is going to get into some really bad trouble using that power of his :p


Hassan is the really bad trouble. When I said he relies on it in social interaction with non-inquisitors, I was not kidding. :P
Post up - it's a quick one, but I didn't want to start too much trouble without giving Stina the opportunity to shut Hassan up. :P
"I'm bored." Normally, those two words didn't mean much - a petulant cry, a droning inflection. People were always bored; it was a fact of life. Those words should not have been a cause for concern, though of course to anyone who knew Hassan, to hear him say them on what was supposed to be The Greatest Night of his and Stina's life would doubtless have been worrisome.

The young inquisitor stood up abruptly and shouted into the crowd, waving his cup above his head. "This is piss. Would someone please bring us something better?" As he spoke, the melodic Word rippled through the room, causing the dancers to pause and the band on stage to skip a beat. "Actually, you know what? Bring everyone something better."

The entire room cheered as the bartender immediately began pouring mug after mug of the finest ale the pub had in stock, the waitstaff doling them out to every nun, soldier and street urchin that raised up their hands. Hassan laughed loudly as he accepted a mug from a comely Varyan girl, winking at Stina as he took a long pull. "Don't worry, I'll pay for it," he chuckled, cutting off what he felt was an inevitable scolding. "Now, I was thinking we dance for a bit, then I find some people willing to beat each other up on the tables for money, and we turn this into a real party. Maybe you can get loaded and crack some heads of your own, yeah? Ragnar does not know what he's missing!"
@The Angry Goat

Sorry, been busy with a paper. I'll get a quick post up for Hassan tomorrow - raise a little hell for Stina to deal with. :P
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