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"Official" Perspective on Lawbreaking
Leon Norton-Black:
Question my good man: Say for example I have my character Sneaky McStealthyson who is the king stealth and veiling on top of stealth. Sneaky veils himself, sneaks up on his mark, unveils himself, shanks the poor guy with a titanium spork to death, then veils himself, and stealthy skips away like a happy school girl. Other than Sneaky being an assassin with a fatter wallet at the hypothetical moment, did he even break the first law of magic or would this be an example of dancing around the edge of the laws enough to potentially invoke the wrath of the Wardens or even a "Blackstaff"?
PS: The spork is not magical even though it should be.....
iago:
--- Quote from: Leon Norton-Black on November 25, 2011, 09:02:30 AM ---Question my good man: Say for example I have my character Sneaky McStealthyson who is the king stealth and veiling on top of stealth. Sneaky veils himself, sneaks up on his mark, unveils himself, shanks the poor guy with a titanium spork to death, then veils himself, and stealthy skips away like a happy school girl. Other than Sneaky being an assassin with a fatter wallet at the hypothetical moment, did he even break the first law of magic or would this be an example of dancing around the edge of the laws enough to potentially invoke the wrath of the Wardens or even a "Blackstaff"?
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I'd put that as dancing around the edge. And hell: it dances around the laws of the Council, but it's smack in the middle of breaking mortal laws, right? No matter how good of a veiler the guy is, I bet he's leaving physical evidence at the scene of the crime.
Tedronai:
That would be, imho, as much a violation of the accords as the Merlin himself, having in his childhood performed an act of magic that saved him from a deadly fall (or some other ignominious mundane death) later in life crushing the life out of an enemy with his bare hands, with no magic involved.
In other words, not a violation in the least. He would not have had the opportunity to take that life in the absence of magic, but the magic was not involved in the act itself, and so neither are the Laws of Magic.
Richard_Chilton:
--- Quote from: Leon Norton-Black on November 25, 2011, 09:02:30 AM ---Question my good man: Say for example I have my character Sneaky McStealthyson who is the king stealth and veiling on top of stealth.
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Curse you. Now I have to make a Sneaky assassin type. One that technically only breaks the mortal laws... And find a reason that he hasn't been hunted down as an assassin by the Wardens who tend to defend innocent mortals...
That's it. He kills other killers.
Richard
PS:
Edited to add a link:
http://www.jimbutcheronline.com/bb/index.php/topic,30354.0.html - to a murder addicted scion who sublimates his desire to kill with his bare hands by working as a mob hit man (and killing with a silenced gun while under a veil). Since he is only targeted towards other underworld figures (and he rarely kills without his Boss ordering him to do so) he is way down on the Warden's list of "things that need to be dealt with" - down after everything that kills innocent bystanders.
computerking:
--- Quote from: Richard_Chilton on December 07, 2011, 07:42:00 AM ---Curse you. Now I have to make a Sneaky assassin type. One that technically only breaks the mortal laws... And find a reason that he hasn't been hunted down as an assassin by the Wardens who tend to defend innocent mortals...
That's it. He kills other killers.
Richard
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Great, now I have to stat a Magical Dexter Morgan to get that concept out of my head...
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