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Originally Posted by John Brinegar
A few observations: First, it's not true that there's no chance of getting incorrect information.
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You are correct. Sorry. So if you get a positive, you need to check three more times to be sure.
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Originally Posted by John Brinegar
The spell description also explicitly says that you don't get specifics: all you get is "You sense something hostile." So unless you target Joe's hex specifically (which you can do), you can't tell if he's the hostile one. ...
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If you are using the spell as a loyalty spell, this is presumably what you would do.
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Even then, it's not clear that disloyalty means hostility. I could, for instance, plan to sell your secrets, which is disloyal but not clearly hostile. ...
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True. I would think that this would not be detected. But what about feeding information to the resistance which wants to kill the dictator? That, I WOULD count as hostile.
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Finally, what will it look like if a dictator bumps someone off and justifies it by saying, "I discovered by magical means that Joe wss disloyal"? ...
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What will happen will happen. But I do not like easy tests to look into the hearts of men (and women).
Warm regards, Rick.