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Originally Posted by Bruno
The entire quoted section says, repeatedly, and in several different ways, that two NPCs can be "allied" but not Allies. They can team up, but one doesn't have the advantage that guarentees the other will remain friends and show up to help a certain frequency of the time. That's what Ally is after all.
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*just reasoning out your post*
Basically, the Ally advantage is a GM-pact saying "The GM wont have this guy turn against you without really good reasons (mind control or something)", yes?
And since the GM controls all NPCs, one NPC having another NPC as an ally is the GM having a pact with himself. An that would be silly, because no one keep New Year resolutions anyways.
The exception is for Summonable allies, which turns the advantage into an in-game ability, rather then a meta-game agreement.
Edit: Although putting the Ally advantage on an NPC character sheet can still be very helpful for book-keeping purposes (oh yeah! George knows an ex-merc who likes to bowl).