NPC hostages or Forcing an encounter

Anyone have experience taking artifacts from NPCs (not dragons).

Who is reported to be holding what artifacts?

How about a kidnap of a NPC?

Is there a way to force an encounter with someone in the same hex
when one is not generated just by being there with a CHAR?

Thanks,
Gary

Anyone have experience taking artifacts from NPCs (not dragons).

It's possible to kill an NPC in challenge, or to steal artifacts
from them. Not sure about kidnap/assassination.

Who is reported to be holding what artifacts?

Check the Mouth of Sauron info files.

Is there a way to force an encounter with someone in the same hex
when one is not generated just by being there with a CHAR?

You can issue ReacEnc, in certain circumstances. Did you have a
specific case in mind?

Tony Z

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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:11:03PM -0000, GearonSkywalker wrote:

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Though no man can draw a stroke between the confines of day and night,
yet light and darkness are upon the whole tolerably distinguishable.
--Edmund Burke

Will check the Mouth for INFO, thanks.

Are you sure a CHAR can 285...it says the CHAR must know of an
encounter to react to?

Gary

Will check the Mouth for INFO, thanks.

Are you sure a CHAR can 285...it says the CHAR must know of an
encounter to react to?

A character can always 285. If there's no encounter in the hex
nothing will happen. In some cases (e.g. if another character
has already taken an artifact away) there will be nothing to
react to... but you could have one person trigger an encounter,
and another react to it.

Tony Z
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:52:55PM -0000, GearonSkywalker wrote:

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So I can 285 if Shelob or Gandalf or someone is in the hex but I did
not get the usual encounter message???

What response do I add to the 285 order? fire, or whatever I want to
use to get the response I think will happen???

Thanks,
Gary

> Will check the Mouth for INFO, thanks.
>
> Are you sure a CHAR can 285...it says the CHAR must know of an
> encounter to react to?

A character can always 285. If there's no encounter in the hex
nothing will happen. In some cases (e.g. if another character
has already taken an artifact away) there will be nothing to
react to... but you could have one person trigger an encounter,
and another react to it.

Tony Z
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--- In mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com, Tony Zbaraschuk <tonyz@e...> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:52:55PM -0000, GearonSkywalker wrote:
yet light and darkness are upon the whole tolerably distinguishable.
--Edmund Burke

So I can 285 if Shelob or Gandalf or someone is in the hex but I did
not get the usual encounter message???

Shelob yes, Gandalf no. (Gandalf is an army commander encounter;
individual characters can't react to him or meet him in an encounter.)

If someone else responds to the encounter and resolves it (gets the
artifact, kills Shelob, whatever) first, your reaction may not have
anything around to react to. On the other hand, if the trigger is
still there (earlier person died trying to reach the artifact, got
eaten by Shelob, whatever), you can react.

What response do I add to the 285 order? fire, or whatever I want to
use to get the response I think will happen???

Again, check the Mouth database for encounter responses. Keep in mind
that the database is incomplete, and that there is usually a random
factor associated with encounters (so what the Mouth gives is the
average result of a response, but you could get a high roll or a low
roll... it's also possible that different character ranks respond
differently to encounters, so an emmy might succeed where a commander
would fail with a particular response, but I don't know if anyone
has enough data to solidly analyze that one.)

Tony Z

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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:47:47AM -0000, GearonSkywalker wrote:

--
Though no man can draw a stroke between the confines of day and night,
yet light and darkness are upon the whole tolerably distinguishable.
--Edmund Burke

Thanks Tony!

> So I can 285 if Shelob or Gandalf or someone is in the hex but I

did

> not get the usual encounter message???

Shelob yes, Gandalf no. (Gandalf is an army commander encounter;
individual characters can't react to him or meet him in an

encounter.)

If someone else responds to the encounter and resolves it (gets the
artifact, kills Shelob, whatever) first, your reaction may not have
anything around to react to. On the other hand, if the trigger is
still there (earlier person died trying to reach the artifact, got
eaten by Shelob, whatever), you can react.

> What response do I add to the 285 order? fire, or whatever I want

to

> use to get the response I think will happen???

Again, check the Mouth database for encounter responses. Keep in

mind

that the database is incomplete, and that there is usually a random
factor associated with encounters (so what the Mouth gives is the
average result of a response, but you could get a high roll or a low
roll... it's also possible that different character ranks respond
differently to encounters, so an emmy might succeed where a

commander

would fail with a particular response, but I don't know if anyone
has enough data to solidly analyze that one.)

Tony Z

--
Though no man can draw a stroke between the confines of day and

night,

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--- In mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com, Tony Zbaraschuk <tonyz@e...> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:47:47AM -0000, GearonSkywalker wrote:
yet light and darkness are upon the whole tolerably distinguishable.
--Edmund Burke