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OWL's posters
Post by imperatorzor   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 10:58 pm

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OWL has been putting up reformist posters in cities around the world, effective at getting the message across at getting under the skins of Inquisitors, but even so this would inevitably raise some eyebrows. His spybugs are the size of actual bugs and basically invisible, but you are going to need something a bit more substantial to bring down a poster and put it up. Imagine a robot floating down into a safeholdian city at night, sticking a poster onto a wall and then flying off suddenly. Such an image would raise some comment.

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Re: OWL's posters
Post by AirTech   » Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:28 pm

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imperatorzor wrote:OWL has been putting up reformist posters in cities around the world, effective at getting the message across at getting under the skins of Inquisitors, but even so this would inevitably raise some eyebrows. His spybugs are the size of actual bugs and basically invisible, but you are going to need something a bit more substantial to bring down a poster and put it up. Imagine a robot floating down into a safeholdian city at night, sticking a poster onto a wall and then flying off suddenly. Such an image would raise some comment.

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Except we have textev of elaborate steathing schemes - what you would more likely see is a poster suddenly appearing out of mid air, like magic...
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Re: OWL's posters
Post by Annachie   » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:00 am

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Although with owl's detection capability there's not going to be anybody around to see.

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Re: OWL's posters
Post by imperatorzor   » Tue Jun 23, 2015 12:44 am

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AirTech wrote:
imperatorzor wrote:OWL has been putting up reformist posters in cities around the world, effective at getting the message across at getting under the skins of Inquisitors, but even so this would inevitably raise some eyebrows. His spybugs are the size of actual bugs and basically invisible, but you are going to need something a bit more substantial to bring down a poster and put it up. Imagine a robot floating down into a safeholdian city at night, sticking a poster onto a wall and then flying off suddenly. Such an image would raise some comment.

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Except we have textev of elaborate steathing schemes - what you would more likely see is a poster suddenly appearing out of mid air, like magic...

That is only going to make the Inquisitors more likely to claim diabolical intervention.

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Re: OWL's posters
Post by HamsterDesTodes   » Tue Jun 23, 2015 1:32 am

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imperatorzor wrote:
That is only going to make the Inquisitors more likely to claim diabolical intervention.

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Why? The only way for them to claim so would be if any (or rathe a lot of) wittnesses actually saw pamphlets appearing out of thin air.
OWL is able to run a vast spy network, making sure nobody is around while his bots nail pamphlets to walls would be childs play. After all, the inquisitors dont even know what they're up against, its hardly a level playing field.
As long as nobody sees the pamphlets actually appearing, the only result of claiming that demons help these refomists with their propaganda would be to make the inquisition look like sore (and incompetent) losers.

In addition, remember how long Clinton waited to claim that Merlin - who had lots and lots of witnesses for some of his supernatural feats - is a demon.
Mostly because the appearance of demons are supposed to be answered by their divine counterparts. Which clearly havent arrived yet (from the churchs PoV).
If the inquistion now claims that there're demons everywhere, or at least in every bigger town, then the questions of where the heck the divine warriors are will only grow louder.
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Re: OWL's posters
Post by Starsaber   » Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:22 am

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If I remember correctly, SNARCs are quite a bit bigger than the spy remotes they deploy. OWL probably waits for the coast to be clear, then brings a full SNARC down to put up the broadsheet.
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Re: OWL's posters
Post by shayvaan   » Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:41 am

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I think Owl's robotic stable is a bit more varies than just SNARCs and their microscopic parasites. After all when Merlin goes after the Inquisition's barge it mentions that he could have sent in remotes (not SNARCs) armed with rifles.
Given his industrial module, there is no reason he couldn't build simple robots (especially if they are recycled afterward).
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Re: OWL's posters
Post by phillies   » Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:34 am

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It is night. These are cities lit by fire. They are *dark*. The posters found nailed to church doors, the lamp having been blown out by a breeze, would perhaps be noticeable.
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