BTW, I'm waiting for crabmouse to answer a PM.<br/>But, in case Ashley is determined to go with that plan*, you should roll some Stealth for an opposed Stealth roll. Her owner rolls a 37, which is a success even with the assigned penalty. That's unsurprising...he is used to people trying to sneak on him, it's a major part of fighting on the steppes.<br/><br/>If you win (that requires a critical success or a roll of 37+, as long as it's still under or equal to her Stealth), you get initiative immediately, his defense level counts as Failure, and you get an extra Manoeuvre/Effect on top of any you might have won...so a minumum of two Special effects if she rolls any success on the attack.<br/><strong>So yes, killing him is a very real possibility.</strong><em>(Why do you think the penalties for slaves attacking masters are as harsh as they are?)</em><br/><br/>If she rolls a Stealth success, but the roll is below 37 and not a critical, she gets to attack him, but I roll for his defense normally. Still a decent chance to kill him, but he's a very experienced warrior (that's what<em>batyr</em>means in the first place, and he's obviously sought after).<br/><br/>If she fails the Stealth check, he finds her out before entering into range, and slams the door in her face, not allowing her an attack. You can tell me if she's going to run after him, or not, but then it's my turn to post. Honestly, he'd just run to get a weapon. There's plenty of objects in the rooms, and he's going to be quite good as long as he has anything in his hands.<br/><br/><em>*As a Referee,</em>I'm fine with either choice, and am going to adjudicate the consequences - using the system, and the setting's logic. Whatever happens, happens...but the setting isn't going to bend over backwards to accommodate Ashley's delicate sensibilities. So a death penalty<em>would</em>be carried out if she's caught, make no mistake.<br/>That's what the Referee's job consists of, IMNSHO. That's why I call myself Referee: I have a setting and characters, and those have goals, and plans. I'm here to adjudicate how they would react to your actions, given the above.<br/>But<em>as a fellow roleplayer,</em>my advice is "I don't see a way this would end well for her" 8-).<br/>Now, if she wants to just play a rebellious slave...she only needs to contradict her new Master. But any actual rebellion...remember how the Spartacus' revolt ended?<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Encyclopedia</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The 6,000 survivors of Spartacus' army were then crucified along the Appian Way from Rome to Capua and their bodies left there to rot for years as a warning against any future insurrections.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>