Bribe noble [1301]

Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (Oct 4 2000)

### E.4.1: Bribe noble [1301]

      Usage:   BRIBE <target> <gold> [flag]
      Time:    seven days
      Time to learn: 14 days.
      Time to use: 7 days.

Offer a character gold in an attempt to win their service. The amount must be at least 250 gold, or the receiving noble will not consider it a serious offer.

Nobles with oathbound loyalty ignore bribes. They may accept the gift, but they will not renounce loyalty to their lord.

Nobles with contract loyalty will accept the bribe if it exceeds their current loyalty rating. For example, a noble of loyalty contract-750 would ignore any bribe of less than 751 gold.

Nobles with fear loyalty, or nobles not sworn to any lord, will accept any bribe of at least 250 gold.

Nobles that accept a bribe will renounce loyalty to their current lord, and swear fealty to the bribing character. Characters who are successfully bribed will have contract loyalty of half the amount of the bribe over their old loyalty. For example, a noble with contract loyalty of 570 who was bribed with 1100 gold would switch loyalties and have a new loyalty of contract-265 ((1100-570)/2). Nobles with fear loyalty before the bribe are treated as if they had contract-250 loyalty.

If flag is 1, and the bribe attempt is successful, the bribed character will stack with the briber.

Bribes will be refused by characters who have already switched lords during the month because of bribery. For example, suppose Osswid successfully bribes Feasel, and Feasel swears loyalty to Osswid. Later that turn, if Procrustes attempts to bribe Feasel, Feasel will refuse to accept the bribe.

Examples:

bribe 5499 750 # Offer [5499] 750 gold to switch factions. # If successful, [5499] will not stack with the # briber.

bribe 3409 300 1 # Offer [3409] 300 gold to switch factions. # If successful, [3409] will stack with the briber.