Okay, but that kinda makes it hard for me to view things from your perspective and not consider your approach egregious metagaming.
Eh, IDK about that. You were the one who made the obvious connection with the strange Russian monk being Rasputin. How can I help it that I was able to make the obvious connection between what Treave is writing and what I know? I just have a hunch, nothing concrete. Even if I didn't have said hunch though, I would still err on the caution, because I've done a lot of RPs with people that are a lot less forgiving than Treave. That's why I was so against us attacking the beast in the beginning of the RP, and wanted us to run. Not because I wanted to play a coward character, but because barring extraordinary luck, a child would die the vast majority of the time in such a situation. Launching a rock at someone's head, when said someone has the ability to kill us before we could even move, just isn't smart.
As I understand it, this man is calling her by title like a felon would the sheriff/bounty hunter that pursues him. Tlalli has obviously been a monster hunter for a hot minute, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility that her name and reputation are very well known by the things she hunts.
Fair enough, and I acknowledged this possibility in my post.
Of course, it's possible that this is some evil assassin or guy that's here to hunt Tlalli down, and he's taking this as the opportunity to use us against her, but if that's the case than he's much more powerful than us and just launching a rock at his head will accomplish nothing.
If that's the case, why isn't grandma creeping us out like him? The man screams 'bad news,' he even says it himself:
That isn't indicative of anything. Treave described it as a sense of "wrongness" and he says we felt the same sense of wrongness when Rasputin entered the room. \ou wanted to buddy up with him despite that feeling we got. In the end, Rasputin was nice enough as he didn't reveal our location to the rest of the soldiers. On a related note, we had no real feeling of wrongness when it came to Alexei, but he ended up being a creepy pedo sadist. There is nothing to suggest that the Bull can't be in the same boat. What if this sense of wrongness is just our ability to tell when we're around someone who is significantly more powerful than us, and has the possibility of being a threat? Grandma is powerful for sure, but we can tell she's not interested in harming anything that isn't a beast she's hunting. Both the Bull and Rasputin seem to have no such reservations for when it comes to getting what they want. The only reason we haven't been killed is because these people have no desire to kill us. Plus, take a look at this from Treave.
As he takes a deep bow, you sense a subtle change in your surroundings. Somehow, the world feels less real. A mist has descended around you, obscuring all visibility beyond a few meters. You back away from the man, feeling Sophie clutch onto your clothes tightly behind you.
I think the sense of wrongness we're feeling is a byproduct of the mist. This aura of his is similar to what we felt when Rasputin was around. No mention of aura/mist has been said regarding Tlalli, but perhaps that's because she keeps it hidden and has no need to invoke it just yet. Finally, this is also an important point.
“Marvellous instincts, little chap!” chuckles John Bull jovially as he observes your reaction. “But there is no need to be afraid –“
This remark seems to go along with my theory regarding the aura/mist. His chuckle and statement backs up my theory that he's a neutral observer that is amused by us, versus being a hostile threat.
Here's my view on how B will pan out: we say no, he tries to nab us by force and succeeds with either us or Sophie. We are now worse off than we were before.
If he want's to nab us, he'll do so regardless of whether or not we launch a stupid rock at his skull. Did you already forget how helpless Andrew was against Alexei? And Andrew is obviously stronger than we are now.
hat's because he doesn't believe he can take her on. If he did, he would be talking to her, not us. Predators go after the weakest members of the herd, not the strongest. I gotta tell ya - I'm dumbfounded that you're taking this fuck's words at face value, yet ignoring his actions. He cuts off our escape routes, tells us to go with him RIGHT NOW, and that isn't alarming; but he calls Tlalli a friend, so they must be friends.
He didn't tell us to go with him right now, he made us an offer. I didn't get the impression that he was strong arming us tbh.
It'll be too late. Right now we have a window where we can do something unpredictable enough to buy time for Tlalli to save us. Right now, he is at least somewhat desperate:
He's cut us off from any help, but whatever bullshit he's pulling needs to be done ASAP. If he and Tlalli were friends, why would he be doing this in secrecy?
Like I said before, he could be doing this in "secrecy" because this is all a game to him. He's fascinated by these kids, and clearly he's heard of us before, as he remarks on us being marked.
“And… oh, bless my old eyes and hope they may be right, but you are one who is marked, hmm?” His gaze falls upon your bad leg, twinkling with interest.
This indicates that there is something deeper going on that we're not privy too. I'm not saying this guy has our best interests in mind, obviously he doesn't, but him killing and kidnapping us? Just seems very lame and boring. I think he's fascinated by us being marked and he's curious to see what will happen.
But that's precisely the point of C voters; he's already hostile. Some guy creeps up on us in the middle of nowhere, prevents you from leaving, but also says that you must come with him. There are times when you simply have to surrender to an overwhelmingly powerful force, but I don't think that this is one of those times. Because, like I said, I'm not doing voting for C with the intention to win, it's only to distract/buy time, which is our one advantage here.
Lmao hostile. He could have clubbed us over the head and boom, hostage situation right there. He was behind us and we had no idea until he spoke up. There is absolutely nothing to suggest he's hostile other than the bad feeling we got. I would like to note that you were in favor of hitting the lantern and running out of the room back when Rasputin was around. E ended up working out very well and being the best choice imo, as we're safe, with Astras, and we have a reliable way of getting back to Rain through Grandma. Instead of being just as hasty this time and trying to shoot the first thing we see that's scary, why don't we calm down and take a more reserved approach? It worked last time.
Sorry, I am a purist, I rely only on the informations provided by the LP, even if you are right it’s illogical to trust him.
Eh, even if we were to use the info provided by the LP, there is plenty of reasons to go with B over C.
I ended up doing what I didn't want to do, but TL;DR: People are jumping the shark on this dude. Ignore the stuff I said about thinking IK where Treave is drawing inspiration from for this setting, as it's wholly irrelevant to Bull and what we should do in this situation.
) I'm proven right.
