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[Taidragon]

Honestly, the examples provided feel like a better way to frustrate the entity making the bargain, since you’re clearly not acting in the spirit of it. If you pretend to be dead instead of fighting, you aren’t following Summer’s teachings. If you pretend to be a Gentry’s Changeling specifically to get them to harm you, the you must really want to be that Gentry’s Changeling.

In either case, I would let the Bargains effects falter as the entity deliberately doesn’t follow through. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes....

[Taidragon]

So, here’s a question that came up in a discussion with another; are the Court Bargains effectively Oaths that a Gentry and their forces can break by accident? That is, could you trick a Gentry to retreat from a battle by pretending to be dead during Summer, or disguise yourself as their target in Spring so they strike you even though you are not truly the one they want to harm?

My default is no, but this is for clarity’s sake. Besides, I have been wrong about bigger things.

[Taidragon]

It’s not being blocked, it’s the thought that things like the thorns and other supernatural effects could still affect a Changeling using WoM. This character doesn’t have many if any combat abilities, and social strategies won’t work every time either. Having something he can semi-reliably use is kind of paramount in that sense.

Still, it seems the general consensus is that WoM should be able to function in these circumstances....

[Taidragon]

Is Whispers of Morning useful in the Hedge? I have a Hedge Navigator Changeling, with a favored regalia in Shields (I love the contracts there too much, and I want him to start with Fortifying Presence) who is part of the Autumn court, and I am struggling to find a good Royal contract to fit him. Whispers of Morning is a favorite of mine, but I don’t know how useful it would be in the Hedge given everything there is magical and thus get around the usefulness of going intangible. Plus I am not sure if anything there would let a Changeling using it pass through.

[Taidragon]

When evoking the Loophole for Dance of the Toys, do you need to inscribe a name on an object every time you use it on the same object, or do you just need to do it once?