omegonthesane wrote:Frankly I might have been able to be less absolutist about this if, having calculated that you felt your only hope of a reasonable lead was murder, you just showed me the numbers instead of expressing it all IC. Not that it matters now, since you had your chance to take the dick route honestly and openly and you threw it away.
I dunno, I was trying to RP some reason to do it, and I thought I was pretty open about how dickish and unreasonable I was fundamentally being, what with the drunken tirade against a person that I described as a "staunch ally", and the farfetched and baseless accusations of Sigrid purposefully destroying the machine and murdering everyone, etc. But I accept that telling you the OOC reasons might've felt less like bullying or toxic manipulation.
Again, I'm sorry if the aggressive tone of my IC posts made this all a little too real; I thought by phrasing it in such a way I was making it clear that I was after selfish points and not actually having any genuine objection to the way you played, at least in so far as I
would have preferred you to be gulled into accepting the duel so that I could "accidentally" kill you, or at least weaken you up so that I lost less points when I immediately backstabbed you for your remaining HP afterwards.
Maybe it's best for me to bow out here and for you guys to continue with a third player. You say you're playing very much for the Good of the Group and only accumulating VP incidentally, whereas I am definitely playing as competitively as I can, and I'm only holding back from screwing the party inasmuch as I need the party to at least limp to victory for the sake of my own VP score, and that's a fundamental disconnect in how we're approaching the social contract element of this. So even if angel interprets the rules on this occasion in such a way that it's no longer desirable for me to attack you now, I'm only going to disappoint you at some later date- allow you to die through inaction, or combat maneuver you into an enemy which finishes you off, or something.