[Social Engineering] Find a specific person in a foreign city (Known Individuals)

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Those facts are not the task. Those facts are the means by which they are to perform the task. They may or may not have means adequate to the purpose. Any description you can give, if the requirement is only, "Find a person of this description," will be not "find a specific individual" but "find a person in such and such a category" and will use those rules. (Thus, as a city gets bigger, on one hand the chance of your finding some person who fits a description gets better, but on the other hand the chance of finding a particular individual gets worse.)

Bill Stoddard

Yeah, the actual goal is 'find a highly competent and extremely versatile alchemist who is very likely to cooperate with the sort of stuff PCs do (and in fact already having cooperated with their patron/guild several times)'. It just so happens that the clues for finding the most likely candidate are such-and-such.

Also: a setup where Clue A is (secretly) wrong but the process of following Clue A eventually reveals both the fact that Clue A is wrong and reveals a Clue B (which is true) - is still a workable quest for an investigation, right?