144 How to provoke your enemies 101 (1/2)
You might be thinking that It is easy to fool them simply by provocations and insults. A valid assumption, given the methods I have used until now, which were based on this principle. But even you must have seen, that the tactics are not as useful anymore.
People have grown suspicious about my behaviour and are now wary about all of my antics. This makes it harder for me to manipulate them. By doing the same thing over and over again, even the most thickheaded players will notice a trend.
Even if it's just a hunch, that listening to me will not do them any good. Once they have the slightest feeling that something is amiss they will act carefully. And who would want the enemy to think about the situation?
” Stop trying to sound so smart and tell me your plan”
Patience is required if you want to succeed. Your current behaviour is not any better than the one your previous hosts have shown. I still think that you are nothing more than a fabrication of my mind, but for the sake of the conversation, I will gloss over that detail for now.
When someone has made up their mind it is useless to go against it. The amount of effort it would take to convince them is just not worth it. Instead, it is much easier to fulfil their expectations and work with them.
Analyze the enemy, seek for potential weaknesses to exploit and divert their attention. They should not even question all of your actions. As long as everything develops in accordance with their expectations, then it is already won. I am not here to prove myself, I am here to survive.
I have said it before but worrying about honour and morals is a luxury I do not possess. If I have to fall on my knees and lick their shoes then I will make sure that these darn shoes will look spotless in the end.
Everything that ensures my survival will have to be done. In this scenario, I could still persist and struggle on for quite a while if give it my all. This can only be achieved by disregarding the toll it would have on my body. Which in return makes this method absolutely useless.
My initial strategy was to buy enough time until everyone has left down their guard before the insects will drop my makeshift bomb onto them. This option would surely have a lasting impact but should only be considered as a last resort since the outside of the town is full of players.
This is a complicated situation which requires delicate planning otherwise I might run into another danger I can not account for if I act carelessly. Not only do I have to take care of these 7 monsters in front of me but also of every danger lurking on the outside. You must have noticed the extra person as well.
” Wipe that shitty grin of your face.”
Yes, there is someone lurking in the shadows. Just because I can not see the player, does not mean that I can not see the location. It is easy to deduce their position, judging by the effects their steps have on the ground. They still give themselves away by the noise they produce.
I will have to be careful not to let my guard down since my enemy is only waiting for the right time to strike. On the other hand, I am also unable to strike preemptively since I am still kept busy by the other players who are ought to kill me.
I might be able to borrow their magic to get rid of the problem. I can make it seem like an accident since I will just dodge the wave of attacks thrown by the enemy. That way I can reduce the risk significantly. The choice to dodge the threat coming to them or risking it all to attack me is an easy one to make.
Although this path would surely be able to buy me some time it does not solve the core problem. I need a method to get rid of these players in one way or another. Killing them one by one would require too much time and would result in too many injuries on my side.
Trying to turn them on one another would take too much time and the odds of me succeeding are not that high, to begin with. They are way too doubtful about my antics for such a strategy to work out in my favour. Besides Laura is way too familiar with that kind of approach.
I did not expect her to refrain from participating in this kind of battle. I need to figure out the reason, why she is content with just spectating the battles. It might be related due to her ability to copy the magic of others. Yet, her eyes are constantly focussed on me. what is she planning?
It is very hard to predict her next action as her motivation is entirely unknown as of now. Seems like I will have to draw her attention to something else. What could I do, that would surely catch her attention? Shame I already outed myself as the real Moirai, otherwise, I could sacrifice one of my clones.
Though I still could cause a lot of confusion by taking that statement back. By pretending, that I was just the test for them, to prove their worth. Add some over the top dramatic acting on top of it and they will most likely start to question everything. Especially If I do not act like the fierce enemy they had imagined me to be.
Afterwards, I would bow and lower myself in front of a random Moirai and declare that they have proven their abilities. Some words of praise later I would make him out to be the real Moira. I need to convince them that something is amiss. It would be best if they did not see me as the object of their desire anymore, but I can not hope for the best-case scenario.
But once their attention is drawn away, I can begin to act. It is not easy to distinguish me from all of my clones. So if absolute chaos breaks out they will never find me. How do they plan to catch me if every Moirai runs away from them?
” How do you plan on achieving that?”
Just let me finish. I would have given you my plan in the next sentence, yet you could not help yourself but interrupting me.
To persuade these Moirai is real simple. Just do not try to convince them at all. Everything these guys did was copy my behaviour and leaving the town to never return. So in order to create the desired effect, I will make the players force them to. Can those NPCs truly stand still if they are attacked?
To ensure that the wave of attacks hits my clones is rather simple, all I need to do is hide in a small crowd of players while I get attacked by the players. The magic will cover the entire crowd since those egoistic morons consider my clones to be beneath their notice.
How exactly those NPCs might react to such an act is something that I can not predict. But I am certain that they will at least show a reaction. If not then I have to resort to different means. I could try and use my newly gained fanatics to sacrifice their lives to buy me some time.
While they can not be compared to any magician they are by no means weak. Someone will have to pay the price, after all, nothing in this world is for free. Success is built on the pain and suffering of others. One mans gain means one mans loss.
I could also hide underneath the mountain of corpses, should my clones refuse to act. If I let the bomb drop I can make sure, that enough casualties occur. Or I could exploit CallMeDaddy and make another interesting proclamation to spiral all of this out of control.