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As far as I'm concerned, we screwed up in coming here instead of taking the secret mission [or, if we go further back, from not going to Wudang]. None of these options are really going to work out well for us and the only thing that will almost certainly leave us unscathed is C2, which would be a bit of a waste of an update. Out of all the options, B is the most appealing because we either break new grounds in actually managing to bone a person after a collective of hundreds of pages of effort in both this LP and the Epic or we fail hilariously and get assaulted by an angered scholar who attempts to continually screw us over from there. I may as well have some fun while I'm in for the ride, my initial sets of goals aren't really looking to be too achievable and this doesn't appear to have all that much to do with them, anyway.

 

Then choose C2, go away and do the governor's mission instead. Why make this worse than it arleady is?

So that's what it comes to. The 'dex lamented animu-ness of the previous LP, but it turns out people actually like playing sexually frustrated characters.

 

Yes, Nevill. I could be persuaded. Not that it's likely to matter, given the votes. Editing my vote. Any A over B.

I must say, I had hoped that the lady of the house would be busy with some OTHER guy, when I voted to visit her. Alas, it was not to be.

 

Flopped my original post to C1. While breaking into somebody's house and taking their shit is hardly a nice thing to do, something really doesn't sit right with fucking this dude's wife, then taking her stuff after or conning her. If we pull off an infiltration like this after casing the joint right now, we could avoid the potential consequences of adultery and the wife's awareness of conning her should we be successful. It's high-risk, but high-reward, and I am hoping that our Yinglang Step will be enough to make up for our atrocious sneak skill. Also, if our mysterious Miao girl is watching, this is no doubt an impressive feat should we be successful.

Lastly, the thing that appeals to me is that this is consistent with our unorthodoxy. This is important to keep in mind:

I'm not saying that we ought to be suicidal madmen by trying to grind Kung-fu masters for XP, but I think that sneaking through this place is definitely doable. We have a lay of the land, and we are already inside. treave, before we pretend to leave, could Jing somehow coax the location of the invitation from Madame Jiang?

Sadly, I'm afraid there's not much time so I'm hoping that you bros will flop. Grimgravy Azira Storyfag Nevill Kipeci Tigranes ScubaV

treave, seriously, B2 is awful, could you give us some extra time to get the vote in? I don't need a crystal ball here to see that it really sucks. Jing is intelligent and has a way with the ladies, but he would have to have a dick that cums money to get a woman to fall in love with him that quickly.

 

How the hell is B2 winning?! "Hey lady, I know you want some of this, why don't you trade the invite for some cock?" Seriously? There are 6 options and you guys pick the least persuasive and least sneaky and most risky option? Is old wrinkled pussy that much of a draw?

 

'Sides, Jing is already a thief thanks to Yao's education. This isn't anything we haven't done before and he has some experience. Hardly undoable:

 

Ok. I don't want B to win. C1 is ok with me.

 

But, but, but.. What about the laxatives?

 

Forget the laxatives, bro, they don't level any skills. This heist will give us a neat bonus. C'mon, it will be fun and nobody said we can't get sleeping darts/needles.

 

C1 > A2, whichever to beat B2.

 

Uh, what bonus?

 

Skills if we succeed, obviously.

 

You have a dick she wants, and she has an invite you want. Supply and demand.

 

And why would your skills increase if you succeed?

 

Because it's not going to be as easy, I suppose, and Jing's level 1 sneak may get better from the practice.

 

You said yourself it was hardly undoable, and he already has experience with this. Does that sound like a close shave scenario to you?

 

I thought he was a novice at this with just the basic knowledge and experience, but if robbing a staffed mansion is no problem, ditto to him I suppose.

 

I'm not making any statement on the difficulty of C1, but you are attempting a very fallacious argument.

Either the risk is high, and you have a chance to increase your skills and learn something new, or the risk is low, and you don't.

You can't have it both ways. What you're doing here is downplaying the risk of the choice, yet choosing to claim that you will get a skill increase for doing something... not risky.

 

Whoops, I didn't mean for it to come out like that: the risk is an unknown, yeah, but we know the theory (as in, you can study breaching tactics or rappelling all you want from a book, but you'll still fuck it up on your first time because it's just too much shit at once; once you get the muscle memory down, shit gets easier) and have the slightest bit of practice so it's not going to be an autofail, which is what I meant by "doable", although I never said it would be easily doable. If it's hard shit (which I expect the mansion to be), we'll get a skill up if we pull it off by doing it right. If it's easy, well, good for us.

Better?

Edit:

except we're more than a dick. We're a Tigerwolf, not someone's boytoy.

 

Azira confirmed for nomask alt.

Fuck the laxatives man, B2 is awful and most of us realize it. Jing is charming, but his dick isn't made of platinum - it isn't going to work. After the reflection that we've done, C1 really seems like the best one out of the set of options that we have. We don't harm Master Yao's great reputation, we aren't getting into some old, cobweb covered pussy, and we aren't going for a con that will obviously be traced to us. Yeah, the risks are very obvious to me, but I think we can manage it.

 

That would be true if Madame Jiang proposes to him that they have regular trysts and she pays for his living expenses etc. But it's not the case here. It's highly probable that 'tis a one time thing here.

 

... what do you think this place is, Deathtrap Mansion?

If you divide the risk into Low, Medium, High and Deadly, you are only getting plenty of skill boosts if you challenge Deadly, perhaps a few if you go High. Otherwise, you'll have to spend time practicing just like a regular Joe.

Now that's settled, there shouldn't be any 'skill boost!' arguments unless the chapter implies that it's going to be a very dangerous choice. Yes I might just toss you guys into a terrible situation which will give you a skill boost with no warning because of your shit luck, but you don't know that.

 

C1 is very bad as well. When the invitation goes missing now, who do you think will be the only suspect? And it's not as if we can hide this thing or fence it - we would have to present it to the guards at the compound. All it takes is for the wife to notify the manor to be on a lookout for us and we are done for it, finished.

No, fuck all stealing options - they are not going to work (with the possible exception of B1, and even that is worse then B2). We can't use a hot invitation, it's worse than useless.

Changing my vote again, this time to C2 > A2. C2 (abandon this whole mess for now) doesn't stand a chance, but A2 might be the best we can hope from the other options.

 

Hadn't seen that one coming. Was/is nomask fascinated by laxatives?

On a serious note though, having Jing back out now in this con seems a half-measure. I'm sticking to my A vote. I think we should give them laxatives a try. Jing's good at bullshitting. She might even believe him.
Flopped the second part of the vote to try buying the invite though.