Up the Tree (8/8/2006)

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:42 pm

Yup... he's gonna rescue the fella...

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:15 pm

*is waiting for the catch to drop*

Rokas · Post by **Rokas** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:31 pm

Always a bad idea to get inolved when you don't know what's going on.

Dapple · Post by **Dapple** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:03 pm

The pole, Vlad would be proud.

Bigdude · Post by **Bigdude** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:55 pm

Was Vlad Polish?

OK, never mind that...GREEN BOOTS!?

Ralph? Waddya done to the little guy's footwear?

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:57 pm

Ralph told me the boots glow green when the sticky feature is being used.

Shyal_malkes · Post by **Shyal_malkes** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:13 pm

that's what I've always thought since the whole tumbledowns incident

SolidusRaccoon · Post by **SolidusRaccoon** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:47 am

Bad move, Q, me thinks the criminal is lying to you.

Jaydub · Post by **Jaydub** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:13 am

Nothing like making the humans mad when you meet them.....

TMLutas · Post by **TMLutas** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:04 am

SolidusRaccoon wrote:Bad move, Q, me thinks the criminal is lying to you.

He didn't say that he *wasn't* a thief, merely that he doesn't want to suffer the horrible punishment of a thief.

This is party recruitment, I think. A thief would be a good addition when you're trying to return magical artifacts, wouldn't you think?

Wanderwolf · Post by **Wanderwolf** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:19 am

TMLutas wrote:
SolidusRaccoon wrote:Bad move, Q, me thinks the criminal is lying to you.
He didn't say that he *wasn't* a thief, merely that he doesn't want to suffer the horrible punishment of a thief.

This is party recruitment, I think. A thief would be a good addition when you're trying to return magical artifacts, wouldn't you think?

Um, two problems with that:

1. Quentyn, as Merchant Max pointed out, is too nice a guy to steal things.

2. The biggest problem with thieves is that you can't trust them.

Trust me on this. Even in D&D, the biggest problem can be keeping an eye on the thief. They have a disconcerting ability to snitch things from the wrong pocket at the wrong time.

Yours truly,

The wolfish,

Wanderer

Jwrebholz · Post by **Jwrebholz** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:24 am

Oftentimes, karma can be a real bitch. What goes around comes around, and all that. Sometimes it takes months. Sometimes it takes years.

I suspect it'll only take a couple minutes for this to come back and bite Q.

BrockthePaine · Post by **BrockthePaine** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:27 am

Wanderwolf wrote:Trust me on this. Even in D&D, the biggest problem can be keeping an eye on the thief. They have a disconcerting ability to snitch things from the wrong pocket at the wrong time.

That's definately true. When I was DMing, two or three of the characters decided to rob a shop "Because we're thieves, we rob people!" I rolled my eyes, told them to do what they wanted, and they did. The robbed a shop, and I had several high-level guards on them inside five seconds. I didn't even bother rolling the dice, since I had given the guards such high stats that even if the PCs had rolled the best score possible, it wouldn't have been enough. They had to pay a hefty fine to get out of jail too, since they tried resisting and escaping.

RHJunior · Post by **RHJunior** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:57 am

Personally, I think having Guards From Nowhere to protect the store was a bit ... plot-breaking.

Me, I would've had the shopkeeper, his wife, his son, and his two brothers/neighbors light into them--- and given THEM the guardsmen's stats.

Nothing like getting a mudhole stomped in you by a shopkeep, a hausfrau, and the village blacksmith to get the point across...

Squeaky Bunny · Post by **Squeaky Bunny** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:21 am

jwrebholz wrote:Oftentimes, karma can be a real bitch. What goes around comes around, and all that. Sometimes it takes months. Sometimes it takes years.

I suspect it'll only take a couple minutes for this to come back and bite Q.

Karma is a chamelion. It comes and goes . . .

Madmoonie · Post by **Madmoonie** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:12 am

I am not sure that this is the best course of action, as others have mentioned. The accused never actually claimed that he was innocent. I think Quentyn should have listened more before getting involved. Those humans are gonna catch him.

PeterSwinkels · Post by **PeterSwinkels** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:04 am

I have to agree with the people above. Trying to rescue whoever is up that tree is not a good idea.... Given past comics, I suspect that things are going to get REALLY nasty for Quentyn... I could be wrong though...

Zorro · Post by **Zorro** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:50 am

BrockthePaine wrote:
Wanderwolf wrote:Trust me on this. Even in D&D, the biggest problem can be keeping an eye on the thief. They have a disconcerting ability to snitch things from the wrong pocket at the wrong time.
That's definately true. When I was DMing, two or three of the characters decided to rob a shop "Because we're thieves, we rob people!" I rolled my eyes, told them to do what they wanted, and they did. The robbed a shop, and I had several high-level guards on them inside five seconds. I didn't even bother rolling the dice, since I had given the guards such high stats that even if the PCs had rolled the best score possible, it wouldn't have been enough. They had to pay a hefty fine to get out of jail too, since they tried resisting and escaping.

Yeah they obviously don't know a thing about a proper robbery.

You have to case the place and plan it out and get permission from the thieves’ guild and pay them a cut to keep quiet.

It also is usually better to pay off guards rather than kill them.

And NEVER harm a guardsman. That turns mere criminal business in to something personal.

Dajagr · Post by **Dajagr** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 1:28 pm

At this point, we don't even have anything other than Captain Cage there's say-so that those are the local penalties for theft. For well we know, he'd say that they plan on boiling his eyeballs in acid if it'll get him out of the cage. If Quentyn's first act in the human lands is to go and free a criminal based on the criminal's word of what's going on, he's going to have to do a lot to clear his name back up again, methinks.

--DaJaGr

Tom Mazanec · Post by **Tom Mazanec** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:03 pm

Just got back from a no-access vacation trip (the places we visited were worth it, but I was starting to go into web withdrawl). I too have a bad feeling about what Quentyn is doing. Letting your heart override your head can hurt, especially in a Medieval society.