If you find the gunman you would have to get at least some information from them (or their house, or their neighbors etc...) on how they were hired, investigate that and then you could use the crown on the new thing you found. This is to stop you guys from doing all your investigation via chained questions and not talking to people or doing material investigations.
Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)
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If you find the gunman you would have to get at least some information from them (or their house, or their neighbors etc...) on how they were hired, investigate that and then you could use the crown on the new thing you found. This is to stop you guys from doing all your investigation via chained questions and not talking to people or doing material investigations.
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[X] Follow the others into the bedroom
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Thanks that clears things up.
Vote closed, let's see how Harry does with this one.
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Uh the power works even on the planet if we think of it as a restraint.
Winning vote
Arc 1 Post 20: Off the Books
Off the Books
9th of July 2006 A.D.
You catch the way Harry looks you over and alas it's not the once over you may have wanted. Dressed half in skin-tight armor and half in a ripped sundress, bruises all across the left side of your face from that time Gorfel shot you in the face. More like 'probable cause' than help, at least not unless you were to do something drastic and it's maybe good to save that for like your third or fourth time out... not the first in any case.
"Good luck," you call to Harry as you hurry to the bedroom door and he to the front, closing the door behind you as quietly as you can.
There isn't much room inside, though you do note that the bed itself is solid wood, stained with age, though still good for another hundred years from the look of it covered in an authentic looking quilt that might have been put together by an old grandma at the edge of a forest somewhere before the big bad wolf got her. It goes oddly well with the poster from the Ralph Bakshi Lord of the Rings with Gandalf front and center between impressed hobbits.
I wonder if he's seen the new ones, part of you wonders, the part that isn't listening the sound of the front door and Greene.
"I'd like to ask you some questions," the detective says gruffly, though from the sounds of footsteps you guess there must be two others with him, maybe patrolling officers since they are the ones who are supposed to investigate gunfire being heard.
"I have some time, shoot." Ouch, you felt that pun through the door you swear. Even Dad still with his eyes on Gorfel smiles.
Thankfully Greene seems to be neutral on puns. His tone is still professional in a 'dead fish trying to talk' sort of way "Did you hear the shots half an hour ago and did you see anything or anyone suspicious around seven forty five this evening?"
"Heard 'em, didn't rush to the door for obvious reasons, by the time I got a look outside everything was normal," comes the reply. "I think it must have been from the roof of this building or maybe the one just across the little alley there."
Nice, offering what might seem to be intimidating information in a calm tone to show that he has nothing to hide. You guess it does make sense for him to know how to lie given that he is a wizard P.I. and he has to keep that last thing on the down low at least to some extent.
"You got a gun?" Greene sounds a little sharper now and you can hear his keys or something jangle as he moves. Is he trying to intimidate Harry... physically? That is going to go about as well as a lead balloon.
"Yeah, Smith & Wesson Model 29. Why?" Harry still sounds calm and now a little bewildered, though how much of that is an act you can't tell.
"That's a 44 Magnum isn't it?" the Detective asks. Something clinks on the table and then silence so deep you can hear their breath. "Found those on the roof, 44 Magnum."
"You think I was on the roof shooting my gun? I mean the pidgeons are bad don't get me wrong, but bullets aren't cheap you know. I'd have used a sling maybe," Harry jokes.
"Or you'd have used someone else so's not to get your hands dirty right?" Greene didn't raise his voice, but you can hear the anger and worse the humiliation in it. For him this was personal now.
"If I don't have money for bullets I sure as hell don't have money for goons. Do you know how much those eat? No way can I keep any goons on a P.I.'s earnings. You can check my taxes if you like," Harry fires back.
"I'd like to see your gun," Greene presses.
For his part Harry isn't having any of it, even though his gun hasn't been fired and would have proven his innocence of whatever Greene suspects him of. "I'm not seeing a warrant. You have a shell, I have a gun, there's lots of shells and lots of guns out there."
"Nah, you are right Dresden, always insisting everything is by the books." You so do not trust the false cheer in that voice. It sounds like it should be paired with a shark's smile. "Do you know what I do have though, a friend at the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. I wonder if you are as scrupulous about your own papers Dresden." You hear him getting up. "Enjoy your little detective fantasy while it lasts Harry." he makes the name into an insult.
"What's the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation?" you ask your dad worried.
"They give out licenses for various freelancers including private investigators," he replies gravely as you hear the door open again and the police leaving without another word.
Maybe you should have scared Greene half to death with magic, you think viciously. Usum naturally agrees.
What do you do?
[] Use your Crown on something
-[] Greene: Write in
-[] Gorfel: Write in
-[] The bullet you caught: Write in
[] Ask Harry why on Earth he decided to pick a fight with the cops
[] Write in
OOC: The dice were really dramatic on this one.
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Technically exposing the supernatural isn't actually unallowed its doing it enmasse which is. We could ask our crown how to expose them to the supernatural and leave us all the fuck alone. This isn't wod where exposing it always gets a bullet to the head.
I'm fine ruining this guys life and making him realize he is in fact unimportant in the grand scheme of things and is being used as at best a convenient pawn.
I'm fine ruining this guys life and making him realize he is in fact unimportant in the grand scheme of things and is being used as at best a convenient pawn.
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I mean Harry's life is somewhat being ruined its an easy fix to just show this guy his.life is ultimately unimportant. It's not actually unallowed as long as you don't spread the stuff wide here.
For anyone wondering why Harry's willpower is 'only' 8, it's because this was not a magical attack, he has a bonus 2 die on fighting anything that attacks his mind directly the way a fail in the soul gaze would have done
[X] Use your Crown on something
-[X] Gorfel: What are the identities of those that Gorfel referred to as belonging to his brotherhood?
Would this work? It's similar to the example of asking who part of the Black Council would be, I think.
That would work, it would give you the list of names for people he considers his peers and superiors.
I think that sounds fine.
If we asked about the nature of the brotherhood itself, that would be interesting but I don't think it would be too useful, unless it was made with a very specific goal in mind, and even then.
Having names is good in general, and maybe even more in Dresden.
Edit: I did think about asking for a location of a meeting place or headquarters, but I have a feeling they don't have a specific place.
If we asked about the nature of the brotherhood itself, that would be interesting but I don't think it would be too useful, unless it was made with a very specific goal in mind, and even then.
Having names is good in general, and maybe even more in Dresden.
Edit: I did think about asking for a location of a meeting place or headquarters, but I have a feeling they don't have a specific place.
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technically could ask for more like for a bio on all of gorfels associates right? if you have one question for a specific thing you may as well milk it right?
Without a name to go on that would just default to 'who are they?' which will give you a name. Gorfel is not enough of a connection to ask detailed questions about his associates.
That was my original intent with asking about "identities".
So, for example the identity of Harry maybe isn't just "Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden" its "Harry B.C Dresden, Wizard (warden?) of the White Council", because it seems like it'd be part of his mystic or true identity...at least I think so.
Not a lot more to go in, but it would be something if it worked.
So, for example the identity of Harry maybe isn't just "Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden" its "Harry B.C Dresden, Wizard (warden?) of the White Council", because it seems like it'd be part of his mystic or true identity...at least I think so.
Not a lot more to go in, but it would be something if it worked.
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oh hes not? I assumed the crown searched the universe or something. We could ask for everything gorfel knows about all his associates?
Oh what he knows, that's fine, I thought you wanted an omniscient accounting of each of their lives, but if any of them gave fake names to him or otherwise deceived him you would get that passed on.
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oh no I did well not omniscient I was thinking basically a brief description like age, name, occupation, and a one paragraph description, maybe locations.
Though yeah I know this new question can't be 100% accurate it does give us far more info than just their identity it gives us what this man knows which is worth a lot even if some info can be taken with a grain of salt and some individuals can be completely left out.
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So, if we asked about their identities, like the current vote, we get their true identities regardless if they lied to gorfell or not?
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I assume so we also wouldn't even get a description of them though, where they are, what they do just names which could be way less useful when you realize they can just not tell their names to us when we find them. maybe identity comes with pictures in our head or some descriptions?