Entering without the breaking

[all_too_familiar]

So, Savril has picked out a nice little mage estate that promises to have some interesting books he hasn't stolen copies of yet, and defenses that can be cracked. It's not the easiest of all houses, because - well, he's already broken into all of the easy ones. He is on intermediate difficulty for burglary. But since the triplets broke into the Larivias house (which had, from Savril's acquaintance with sneakery, made it past intermediate difficulty before they teleported inside) they're cleared to come along after the place has been properly cased.

That is, if they have parental permission. Savril does not want to upset the parents of terrifying children. Parents of terrifying children tend to also be terrifying themselves.

Comments

[all_too_familiar]

"You probably shouldn't rely on it," says Savril sagely, "but you can happily take full advantage of it when it happens."

[pythbox]

"Exactly," says Tierval.

"Poor strategy," says Serin.

"Is not," says Tierval.

[all_too_familiar]

"My experience with strategy is that it's extremely fluid. It might be a poor strategy to take advantage of good end results, but often it's not. Writing off a single set of actions as universally poor can add some constraints where there were none - just like saying a single set of actions is universally the perfect solution does the same."

[pythbox]

"Of course," says Serin.

"It's poor strategy to act like nothing bad is ever going to happen, but that's not what I do," says Tierval.

"Sure it is, you're just lucky enough to pull it off," says Orion. Tierval snorts and pokes him.

[all_too_familiar]

Savril lacks experience with Tierval to really comment on whether he does or doesn't do this specific thing. So he doesn't.