It MUST have been a vampire! the killer clearly had superhuman strength to be able to bisect the Tzar so cleanly!
It MUST have been a vampire! the killer clearly had superhuman strength to be able to bisect the Tzar so cleanly!
Do you remember the time we have sparred with Boris and rolled nat1 and accidently killed him? Neither do I because it doesn't happen like that so I don't know wtf you are talking about.Here, I gotta disagree. There is always the chance combination of a wrinkle and a botched roll.
Ranald has a sense of humor.
Those risks exist in theory, but they are very unlikely to become realized risks, because Dame M. Weber is good at handling things, but Dame M. Weber has also spent time in a Scooby-Doo montage on a bad infil before - multiple times.
Excrement occurs, and I think you discount the possibility.
See, the funny thing here, there's an exact same chance of rolling a nat 1 on any roll that might be made. I tried to write out a list of possible consequences for both approaches, and gave up because, while there's a lot of things that might try to inconvenience Mathilde, none of them stand the slightest chance of endangering her mission in either case.There is always the chance combination of a wrinkle and a botched roll.
This is a great summation for an argument for NHA, and I endorse it wholeheartedly.Yeah this. I personally don't think getting caught and then sneaking away into the night is the same as "Nighttime Visit" I think its better
Seriously random servant wanders in for arbitrary reason, sees creepy figure doing something, screams, then one second later there's nothing but a now dead Tzar is bang on for Lahmian getting caught and then having to scarper. Additional bat illusions can help. And yes I think Mathilde could still easily get away and not be detected during this. I can see a thread more obsessed with "Just as Keikaku" planning trying to intentionally set this up, before being shot down as being too luck dependent. If this happens actually via pure unplanned coincidence? Praise Ranald.
I went for Heart Attack since I think it meets the entirety of the brief better, any plausible hiccups in the plan as written can be fairly smoothly worked with to meet the brief of "dead Tzar with Lahmians implicated," and potential pure downsides aren't actually that much different from "Nighttime Visit's." Since being caught falls under "not actually that much of a downside" the main one I can think of is "sudden unknown magic protection ready to do something unpleasant if we magic into/in the bedroom." And that applies just as much to Nighttime Visit since I'd think any unknown protection would activate upon any unknown magic vs having a time delay trigger thats short enough for Visit to work but catch Heart Attack.
That didn't happen because Boris wasn't secretly a Khornate champion, or unexpectedly poisoned or drugged, or cursed, or ...Do you remember the time we have sparred with Boris and rolled nat1 and accidently killed him? Neither do I because it doesn't happen like that so I don't know wtf you are talking about.
At certain level your skill outmatches the random chance which why Boney just wrote Boris and Mathilde being frustrated as they had a very unsatisfying spar on a Nat1 roll.
See, the funny thing here, there's an exact same chance of rolling a nat 1 on any roll that might be made. I tried to write out a list of possible consequences for both approaches, and gave up because, while there's a lot of things that might try to inconvenience Mathilde, none of them stand the slightest chance of endangering her mission in either case.
See, the funny thing here, there's an exact same chance of rolling a nat 1 on any roll that might be made. I tried to write out a list of possible consequences for both approaches, and gave up because, while there's a lot of things that might try to inconvenience Mathilde, none of them stand the slightest chance of endangering her mission in either case.
Interruption 1: It is Vasily the heroic martial captain of the Kreml Guard
First Clash: 1 vs 100: Grievous wound
Second Clash 1 vs 100: Mathilde is killed
Does the Seed work: 1 Mathilde's hand had been cut off in the struggle: Mathilde is dead and her memory is forever dishonored
Bad enough rolls can make anything worth rolling for fail, that is the point of the system.
1/100.000.000 chance is quote something to talk about.
I am not sure why you would focus on something like that but it is quote something.
Sometimes I feel like we talk about the stuff that should go without saying.I am not, I am just pointing out that there is a base level of risk to everything we do. That is kind of the point of the format, we will never eliminate risk. Our choices are about managing it.
"Leave no evidence + Leave evidence of Lahmians" is a pretty clear directive to just not get truly caught as ourselves.What's in danger is the plan to use the Matrix, and it's fail state is an escalating alarm that there is an assassin in the palace when Boris specifically requested "leave no evidence".
... What's in danger is the plan to use the Matrix, and it's fail state is an escalating alarm that there is an assassin in the palace when Boris specifically requested "leave no evidence".
In any case magical items pose a complication to any plan, not just Nighttime Heart Attack. The real additional risk (such as it is) that's unique to Nighttime Heart Attack is that more time spent in the palace is more time that someone could interfere. If there's someone in the palace that could fuck up our plan then spending more time in the palace makes it likelier we run into them. I don't think that sort of thing is very likely and I think that Mathilde could probably deal with any plausible interference, which is why I'm voting for that plan, but I think it's a bit much to claim that there's literally no additional risk.
Being canny and capable doesn't generally help much when you're asleep. I'm certain Vlad is actually very capable in his fields of focus and interest, but unless those include 'stopping intangible and invisible assassins approaching me while I'm unconscious' then it's supremely unlikely to help.I think the Tzar may be cannier and more able than the thread or characters believe but I also think there being a struggle would be rad so
[] Nighttime visit with style
Boris got his from the Ice Witches, I'm not sure that Vladimir would accept one from them.Regarding magical items: it should be noted that Boris does have a kickass magical weapon, so I find it unlikely that the Tzar doesn't have a magical weapon of his own. That's probably not relevant as far as magical defences go, but yeah he does probably have at least 1 magical item.
Boris got his from the Ice Witches, I'm not sure that Vladimir would accept one from them.
I think if a Servant wanders in during casting, Boney should roll a 1d100 to check for windsight. But why? Cause sometimes you need to tempt god.