Digest Number 862

I have seen it. I've had it happen. As the Dragon Lord, I had several
Characters kidnapped in battle, only to escape a turn or two later. I
believe that if the character holding the hostage has no agent rank,
then the hostage has a decent chance for escape. Now, I can't attest to
whether or not they've ever escaped when the character holding the
hostage HAS agent rank.

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Subject: Re: Hostages

At 08:21 PM 28-01-02, corsairs game 101 wrote:

Only characters with agent rank will have a chance to escape on
their own

Opinions seem to differ on that though don't they? There's lot's of
these
"established truths" which wobble under testing.

I should be interested to know if we have we got anyone out there
confident
enough to say that they have seen non-agent characters escape
  - not because the holding nation has been eliminated
  - nor because the holding character has been kidnapped/assassinated
  - nor because the holding character has come a cropper in an encounter
  - nor because the hostage has been released
  - nor because the holding pop has been taken?

I think it would be quite difficult, even in a highly communicative team
to
exclude all these possibilities.

Laurence G. Tilley