<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=112975.msg5046613#msg5046613">Quote from: Latooni Subota on 10-08-2011, 07:53:56</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Well, they can plan out a defense of the Museum no problem I think. With all those VIPs, valuable art, AND a magical artifact (I assume the Order has ways of figuring that stuff out), the mayor would clearly call upon the order to help protect the event. Even if he didn't the Order would volunteer for that sort of thing, right?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>In-game, there is no way that the Mayor would ever demonstrate a powerful artifact like the Rubric Scarab without Order approval.  But that's not the point:  the point is that we, the players, have no clue about anything.<br/><br/>We never set down who knows who or who knows what, so now all of us are just twiddling our thumbs doing nothing.  We are being asked to make an elaborate plan, but we haven't been given a set of parameters or expectations that would allow us to make such an elaborate plan.  We don't know what resources we have at our disposal, and we don't know what sort of attack the Order can expect since we haven't established who has encountered who between the Order and the League.  And even if we did know what to expect, when would the machinations of our plan cease to be realistic?  Example of ridiculousness:  "Door can just teleport the item; I recommend that we build a transdimensional interdiction machine to intercept any attempts of teleportation within the room.  Since we can expect them to expect our building of a transdimensional interdiction machine, we should probably also work on coating the machine with electromagnetic-proof paint and getting a half-dozen back-up generators, which will power an impenetrable force field."