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– Shamus, Monday Nov 27, 2006
No no no, you just have an NPC come in from entirely off screen and be confused who told them about your grand gifts of boats. Make it a weird social interaction:
Galadriel: Oh…you gave them the boats already?
Nameless elf guy: Well they just sort of…
Galadriel: I really thought you’d wait for me, I had a whole sort of ceremony planned…
Nameless elf guy: Well, yes, but…
Galadriel: Go on back, I’ll speak to you about this later.
The party can then be gleeful they cut off a awkward ceremony. Or horrified and speculative wondering if they got that guy fired and if elves even have jobs in the first place. Either way, your players don’t get off thinking they just bullied your NPC’s into gifts they didn’t want to give, leading to more bullying later on.
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This looks like an accidental repost of the last strip.
Ah…yup, fixed. 4 and 5 are shockingly close together for some reason. What idiot did that. /s
One of my favorites. He just looks so irritated.
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I’ve recently learnt the value of insight/perception/investigation checks. Not to learn things, but to nail things down so that the GM has more difficulty in rebalancing them later if I get a good roll :D