root said:
i think we should buff up and then go visit the thing in the sewers tomorrow night. it sounds the most sensible option, they'll try to kill us again anyway and we don't have fellowes 24/7.
root you can't thug through Masquerade. Leg work is for peons. I'll admit it gives some dignity to our guy if he knows how to handle himself AND control the checkpiece, but we have to capitalize on our synergies, I think.
Esquilax said:
Holy fuck guys, I'd just like to say - what a bro Oscar is, eh? We are an asshole to the poor guy over the phone and not only does he get us footage of Rannigan, he wiretaps our spy and gets us the Bishop's phone number.
If we want to do him a solid, we'll try to come up and look at the info in person. It would be wise to maintain such a great asset.
This is true. We have to be careful about how we handle our guys. There's some Napoleon shit we have to pull off. Not too friendly, but not too much of a cunt either. The point is to awe them into respect as much as possible. The Nos doesn't seem to respect us too much, which is not good. We shouldn't rely on him too much. In fact relying on anything at all is a bad idea. Which is why I can see the appeal in thugging it up - our own prowess won't fail on us. Alas, 'tis the risks of the métier, so we have to try to be a good socializer.
Speaking of which, we should have some blood thralls (vampires who drink our blood). The only real effective way to control people is blood bonds. The rest is too shaky. I used to have a char who would either kill you or blood bond you - it worked. Much better than putting our trusts into emotional Nos who don't like our tone of voice and want money. The political guys we're controlling should also be our ghouls - otherwise they can just be snatched up by our opponents at the wrong time. That's how I roll most of the time. Anyway, just putting it out there.
As ironyuri said, I think we could do more with the spy eventually, so we should really hold on to this. E would probably fail miserably without more planning, F is too risky without having buffed it up (GH).
That said I'm voting C.
The other choice - not sure. I don't see the point of going with A because we're supposed to do this on our own, not with the help of the sheriff (which basically comes down to going back to the prince without having done our job proprely). So... I don't know. I guess I'm really a peon at heart. So let's buff it up. Will probably be handy at some point. Voting H or G (whatever is the most picked) for second choice. Let's get ourselves a nice katana or some shit, and gain some experience points
Btw grotsnik you are a true bro