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It just occured to me that thieves and ninjas can initiate PvP attacks without the victim ever knowing. A Ninja can assassinate while still hidden for example, while a thief can blackjack and steal. So my question is, if a Tribunal is a victim to these attacks and does not see the hidden attacker, do they have the right to make said attacker WANTED? Suppose they did not see the thief/ninja, however they do see that on the WHO list there is only one ninja/thief in the game. Obviously that one ninja/thief -must- have been the attacker.

Would it be OOC to place a WANTED flag on that thief/ninja? Seems the tribunal would be using the who list(which is pretty OOC in my opinion) to aid him in finding out who the hidden attacker was.

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hmm

so a thief/ninja preparing to assinate can be labaled wanted. wouldnt it however be hard to see one hidden and preparing to assinate. i dont think their is really much that can be done when they are hidden and even using the who list you dont see those that are hidden so if he attacks and hides again and that so called tribunal uses the who list and see only one ninja he would blame him and make him wanted when really the ninja he seeks is yet again behind him and kills him. i just dont understand maybe. i am somewhat new to the lands myself i now very little its changed since last i played.

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so a thief/ninja preparing to assinate can be labaled wanted. wouldnt it however be hard to see one hidden and preparing to assinate.

Yep. It happened to me with a ninja; hide failed, Tribunal had detect magic up, saw me studying, wanted me.

i dont think their is really much that can be done when they are hidden and even using the who list you dont see those that are hidden so if he attacks and hides again and that so called tribunal uses the who list and see only one ninja he would blame him and make him wanted when really the ninja he seeks is yet again behind him and kills him

True again. In that situation, I would imagine the Tribunal who wrongly marked the ninja/thief would be reprimanded (though I might be wrong). Moral of the story would be to not just mark the one ninja/thief you see on the who list, unless you know that they are the only ninja/thief about.

Dey

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The laws still require them to SEE it happen.

On Crelle I filed a complaint against a tribunal who wanted an academy member who strangled him but never initiated or sowed himself. I also did something similar on Tizz regarding thief traps, the law says they have to SEE you LAY them, and if hidden thy can't tell who did it. :D

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Heh' date=' just mark them for not showing themself. If they do show themself you can look at them with detect magic. So either they have nothing to 'hide' haha, good one Iyorvin, or they remain unseen, and thus wanted ;)[/quote']

You only have to unhide when asked to.

Hide;set trap

tribunal says step out of shadows

You step out

They still can't prove you set the trap.

Having set a trap in the past 5 ticks is not incriminating, because the law SPECIFICALLY says they have to PERSONALLY see you set it.

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When I played my trib, YOU have to witness them laying the trap. If a ninja/thief blackjack/strangles me and I did not see who did it I can not mark them. However if I get knocked out and then ask the person to show themselves and they do not then the Trib can mark them for not showing themselves. And studying in town IS illegal.

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When I played my trib' date=' YOU have to witness them laying the trap. If a ninja/thief blackjack/strangles me and I did not see who did it I can not mark them. However if I get knocked out and then ask the person to show themselves and they do not then the Trib can mark them for not showing themselves. And studying in town IS illegal.[/quote']

Spielgel06 is correct; Tribunes have to witness the crime being clearly performed by a visible ninja/thief to mark the ninja/thief a criminal. This has to do with roleplay, and less with code. Asking ninjas and thieves to show themselves, however, can be very tricky. All I can say is that everyone should read up on the law tomes.

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Spielgel06 is correct; Tribunes have to witness the crime being clearly performed by a visible ninja/thief to mark the ninja/thief a criminal. This has to do with roleplay' date=' and less with code. Asking ninjas and thieves to show themselves, however, can be very tricky. All I can say is that everyone should read up on the law tomes.[/quote'].

So assuming I am the only ninja online, and according to who, the only being that can hide/camo or whatever, and then I strangle a Tribunal, blind them, and then kill them, they wouldn't be able to mark me wanted? They'd know it was me by me being the only ninja online via who but if they didn't actually see anything at all, they can't want me?

Dey

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That's kinda like how they can mark shamans if they have a doll of them, regardless if they use the doll, or if there's two shamans with two dolls. I really think they should be able to mark if you're the only thief/ninja about. Common knowledge, and using 'WHO' isn't necessarily OOC.

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Actually Acerbity, the voodoo law does take into account whether or not the Tribune has been victimized by a doll.

Tribunes are prevented from using the "who" list to mark criminals not for OOC reasons, but for roleplay reasons. It's a matter of forcing Tribunes to follow a very strict code to impose order (or rather Tribunal's definition of order). Think of it as police gathering evidence, where any evidence they find must be obtained in specific ways (i.e. with a warrant, was in plain sight) or it would be thrown out of court even if the evidence clearly showed the suspect to be guilty.

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You know what would be funny? Just get two or more ninjas/thieves to stand over a Tribunal and take it in turns to strangle/blackjack them, because they cant want you. You don't even have to hide in shadows. Three thieves just blackjacking the Tribby, the Tribby doesn't know which it is, as no names are mentioned even when the Thief/ninja are in clear sight. :D

Thanks for clearing things up there.

Dey

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