(07-27-2013, 02:18 AM)Kaln Wrote: Yes. Yes.
Yes.
I won't, have no right to, debate over specifics.. But I think it'd flow just as well, or possibly even better, without the whole.. Dark figure calling them over.
Let me lay out a scenario, a depiction of how it'd go in my head.
Guy comes into a market. Tavern. Whatever. Guy needs help with stuff. Guy heard he could find someone here. Guy goes up to the bartender, or to a merchants stall, and asks. Merchant/tender don't know anything, they say. Guy goes to another, and another. One the last one, whenever the guy gets to what he would consider his 'last one', the merchant/whatever doesn't openly claim to know anyhting, but.. Answers the questions in a more riddly-indirect way. He never -says- he's part of the group, never gives off the opinion that he is.. But when it's all said in done, he's told Guy that Guy can expect the help to arrive when it's needed. Almost like the merchant/whatever is a messenger, but.. AGain, it's never said. Or, alternatively, Guy has no luck finding the information he wants, and he leaves. After he's gone, one of the merchants talks to someone else, who talks to someone else, who talks to someone else.. And the 'story' of Guy's need gets up the grapevine. BoN hears it from said grapevine, and they show up at the event. Surprise! Help is here!
That way, the people who'd want to fight with the BoN wouldn't think "Hey, we can go here, and fight that shadowy claoked guy."... Instead, it's Guy who comes in and asks, and BoN heres it from the grapevine. Or whatever.. That would also allude to more secrecy, because no one would be able to say with certainty where the BoN heard it from, and therfor no one would be able to point fingers at who's in the BoN. Last thing you want is for the eyes and ears of a secret society to not be secret.
You make a very valid point, and of course with that scenario as far as the guy looking for help knows someone in the tavern, or standing on the street overheard him asking around about the group for help, it may not have even been anyone he spoke to directly. That's kind of the reason for keeping the LS and FC as separate entities, they're both under the same organization but the public never deals directly with the Blades, they always have to deal with some kind of go between which would be represented by the LS.
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