[@Zeroth]

Question about the named NPCs, who're NOT useless flunkies.:

How much freedom do we have in dealing with them? As in, can our characters auto-hit them and can we decide the outcome of those hits ourselves? Can we control their actions or decisions? Or, is it more of a "I say I do this" and then you, as the GM, go like: "this is the result of your [i]attempted[/i] actions"? in your next post?