(09-15-2014, 02:31 PM)OttoVann Wrote:

(09-15-2014, 02:17 PM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: I always had the notion in my mind that Garlean operatives would be much more...disciplined than that. 

I'd also think that Frumentarium has much less...organic means of gathering intelligence!

A defector, however...hmm. I suppose the question becomes: What exactly do you intend to do with said Garlean?

To the bold : Come on now.  I'm Otto Vann, it's what I do.  I put on my A-Game tryhard pants with this one and didn't hold the punches so to say.  No training can resist that.  

I don't think she's a defector, either.  As far as what I plan to do with them?  Well...my bedroom door is always open to them.  They can come and go as they please.

All of this Garlean business was made aware to me and revealed after we left the bar and we're in the afterglow of doing the deed. I actually...didn't know what Garleans we're until I asked them in an OOC /tell I felt kind of bad being so terrible at RP that doesn't involve womanizing.  Yes I did skip cutscenes like a shitter at launch so I could hurry through story and get back to my crafting way back when, I'm sorry.

But I do have implicit knowledge of a Garlean in my midsts.  I wonder what all I should do.  Guess I can wing it and have fun I hope.  Its not like anyone can seriously arrest or threaten me with state-sanctioned authority.

(09-15-2014, 04:44 PM)Jana Wrote: It should go without saying, but be careful who you (and the Garlean character) choose to disclose that bit of information to. Brass Blades can be payed off, but some RP characters (like Jana) are more willing to enforce vigilante justice.

(09-15-2014, 05:06 PM)Jana Wrote: ...That wasn't my implication at all. Anyone who loudly broadcasts belonging to an enemy faction is either going to make a lot of IC-enemies or be regarded as a non-RPer stirring up trouble. Not that I think Otto would "loudly broadcast" it, but telling the wrong person about these goings-on could end up with stories spreading, trust being lost, etc. while in-character. Just because players can't openly PK or arrest another player doesn't mean they can't get the rumormill going.

(09-15-2014, 06:53 PM)OttoVann Wrote:

(09-15-2014, 05:06 PM)Jana Wrote: ...That wasn't my implication at all. Anyone who loudly broadcasts belonging to an enemy faction is either going to make a lot of IC-enemies or be regarded as a non-RPer stirring up trouble. Not that I think Otto would "loudly broadcast" it, but telling the wrong person about these goings-on could end up with stories spreading, trust being lost, etc. while in-character. Just because players can't openly PK or arrest another player doesn't mean they can't get the rumormill going.

Its hard for me to answer to this without being a ic/ooc mix.  I dont forum RP though.  But, what can anyone reasonably do to me anyways?  "He fucked a garlean woman"...so what?  Maybe I'm so used to always getting my way IC I dont see how it would change anyhting.

(im not mad just sort of rambling while drunk)

(09-16-2014, 07:07 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: Specifically, he would make for an excellent take-down for any up-and-coming or here-and-staying monetarist. Your assets would be seized so you couldn't continue to fund Garlean spies on home soil (which is clearly why your organization exists, you are a front) and since you represented a reasonable threat to Ul'dah and Her People you'd be dropped into a gaol while all of the red tape was sorted out.

Oh, the process is pretty easy to sort out. Should be done in twenty or thirty years.

Otto's a powerful man, but there are more powerful, and Ul'dah eats its own when you play those sort of games. You're simultaneously untouchable to those below you and a swattable fly to those who'd seek to make an example out of you, and this sort of connection is exactly what your rivals would press on to drive you out.