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Cairomaru said
Mayyyybeeeee Blade's savior would want to stay out of a riot then >..>

I think our characters would mostly be attempting to avoid the guards and just lead them about long enough for somebody to kill the captain. Queen what's-her-face seemed to want to keep casualties to a minimum, even if it's just guards who are helping the dwemer.

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Dervish said
FINALLY GOT TO READ THIS! I actually really enjoyed this little write up, I always enjoyed 'Let's Play' style things where it's written in a roleplay perspective, and it's certainly a fun way to give a bit more life to the things you encounter in the games. It's interesting how perspective can totally change how you perceive an encounter, especially if you're sticking in character. It reminds me of when I play Marassa in my Skyrim, it's a rather interesting challenge staying totally aloof to the happenings of the world and not joining any of the guilds because she sees them all as pointless exercises, and she has no reason to go into caves/ ruins unless she's looking for shelter or coin. Having restrictions based on roleplaying can add a lot of life to a game! Either way, do moar. I wanna see what kind of kooky adventures you get yourself up to.

I pretty much already write Blade as I play him in the game, but now I want to do this. Maybe I'll consider everything that happens in game as Blade canon. It'll be everything that happened shortly after he left Windhelm which I never really touched on in my character sheet.

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Dervish said
As for Captain Ismal, it would be best not to underestimate him. You need to ask yourself what kind of man commands the loyalty of a highly effective and ruthless group of guards, especially in this kind of society.

Well it's not likely to be Blade who fights him. Unless nobody else wants to join the mission and take that job, in which case I suppose he will.

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WittyReference said
He's the guard captain, right? He'll probably be a badass in his own right and also surrounded by likeminded individuals. Now, if you could spread the guards a bit, it might make things a bit easier. Enlist some pickpockets and thieves, some brigands are bar brawlers, get enough trouble started in distant parts of the city and the guards'll be forced to respond. The downside to this is of course, with such an orchestrated timing, he'll know something's up and be ready for you. Checks and balances, pick your poison on if you prefer a firing squad waiting for you or a small elite group of badasses.

Well in Dervs briefing (correct me if I'm wrong Almighty One) the captain himself doesn't appear to be much of a threat. He just sends out his guards to do the dirty work. And it was mentioned that it would have to be "quite the disturbance" in order to get enough guards out of the guard house to allow somebody sneaky to get inside and kill him.
At first I was thinking we'd have to cause a mass revolt in the populace, but a bunch of smaller isolated incidents that spread the guards out could work well too, and would cut down on civilian casualties which the Resistance would appreciate I'm sure. Even still, it would have to be a lot of small incidences that are still drastic enough to get a decent amount of troops called. Petty crimes and bar brawls wouldn't really work that well.
Maybe fire bombing gov property or something.
And I can't imagine every guard being an elite fighter. Sure the Lieutenants maybe, but it just doesn't make sense for all the guards to be master swordsman, even if they are Redguard.

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Cool. I'll wait and see if anybody else wants to get in on this or has already started something. But in the case no one has, what should we do? The most obvious thing would be to start a riot I suppose. Any other ideas?

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Cairomaru said
Blade's savior could help out with that ya know >_>

Awww eyewash! Epic team up!

(My phone auto corrected 'yeeeaaah' to 'eyewash' and made me lol so I left it.)

Dervish said
Zaveed isn't doing the assassination. He's doing the prison break.

Derp. My ability to speed read is equal parts blessing and curse.

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Whelp, it's about time I started working on a post that relates to current events. Is anybody working on creating a disturbance to make the Ismal fellow show up? Being conspicuous is kind of Blade's forte, so I figure thats the best spot for him to be. I know Zaveed is currently getting information on the guy and I assume will be carrying out the actual assaination. Maybe we could organize a joint operation?

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Also, I just started watching the anime "attack on Titan" yesterday.
Badass. Pretty badass. It's not often that an anime intrigues me enough to watch half the season (only stopped cuz I had to go to work) in one go. The last one I recall doing that was "samurai champloo."

Although I have to question the logic of how a civilization's firearms technology doesn't improve at all over the course of a century but somehow manages to mass produce a technological marvel like the so called "3d movement device." Essentially batman's grapnel hook on steroids. Something that even we haven't managed to do, even after sending men to the moon and back.
Anime logic. Eh, still cool.

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So I bought the Nekrogoblikon album "Stench" based on Dervs video post and was not disappointed. Those guys have some serious talent, and the song "Bears" is genius. Spoiler: it's about bears.

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Oops. Forgot to give my time zone.
Mountain time. UTC- 7:00
Whatever that means.