Except you've played rogues so you kinda know that the repercussions and the risk involved are just absolutely tremendous. The rogue I mentioned in the edit messed up pretty bad attacking someone, got unmasked, and basically had to quit playing.ferranifer wrote:with no possible repercussions
Granted, that one was due to a bug, but it didn't matter. If a rogue dies with a mask, their ghost is unmasked. Even if they 'start' before anyone sees them, they'll probably want their things back, so they're going to need to resurrect and spend a giant amount of effort disguising up again. They'll need to run to the bank for a bunch of gold they'd better have saved up, then they'll need to run to one of the contacts, then they'll need to purchase the required tools and hopefully they had enough reputation to do so but probably didn't, which takes at minimum a minute and at most quite a lot more since you'll want to "list" the goods, which again uses thief rep, and then they'll want to get their tools fitted which again uses more gold and thief rep, and then they'll probably want to make sure they're disguised right by one of the various ways of doing so (usually you'd want another player to look at you, etc.) so that other players don't see right through their disguise - though other players can occasionally see through 'em anyway if they've got high enough stats and all, therefore risking an immediate outlawry and shunning because wearing a disguise equates being a thief, and thievery is treated worse than murder on Geas.
But yeah, no consequences at all for a rogue who fails. You're totally right. You go on thinking that!
There's a certain group of people on Geas who vocally hate everything rogue-related. I dunno, seems pretty apparent to me.. After the initial shock of realizing how true it was, having interacting with one or two alts of said people, I'm actually just more curious than I am bitter about it! I wanna know what happened in the past that made them _so_ put off by everything rogue-related!ferranifer wrote:underhanded stabs
As an actual jab, some of them even put their RP off a bit to come up with asinine ways to try and 'unmask' active rogues, like lying that they saw so-and-so use mugging when they actually used whirlwind or disarm, or asking why so-and-so is so sneaky despite never once seeing them sneak. I think there's more examples! Notes written on boards hinting that those who know backstabbery must definitely be thieves - but written by a character that knows backstab, who was surrounded by other characters who knew backstab, none of whom were thieves. I mean, it got more amusing than frustrating after a point. ^^
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Thinking back, I actually don't think my character had even been a rogue yet the first time one of 'em tried to unmask her! I was quite a lot of a newbie back then, but I recall the deathpriest's comments, and being boggled. My character learned backstab from watching, not from a trainer.
...One last edit since I couldn't sleep! The one and only time I attacked one of Ferra's characters was without a disguise, and you went out of your way, despite playing an evil character, to use it in an attempt to associate my character with the rogues as punishment/retaliation. The point is, you know the repercussions - you know that there's risk, so I dunno why you'd fib otherwise and underline it, too. As an aside, do you actually have a single character besides your mage that didn't pop up and take an immediate interest in trying to associate Aisa as a rogue? lol!