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    Default Re: Erfworld Thread XI: Finally, it's HAMMER-TIME!

    Quote Originally Posted by Magikeeper View Post
    Ditto'ing a signature still implies any dittomancer can pull off the same cheat (intentionally, unlike HueHue), but is weird enough that maybe no one would have ever thought of it. True. That's an interpretation that isn't too hard on the setting. Still should have been mentioned earlier.
    I suspect that if you're not a tower, you would need a Dittomancer - Signamancer link. But I wouldn't be surprised if "forged contracts" are a possibility with a link like that. It might have additional requirements, too. A tower has direct access and threads to all sorts of stuff, whereas the link might need to eg. have some connection to the person they want to fake a signature from - probably by being right in front of them, which limits the practicality of this slightly. Or maybe needing access to another existing contract which you can essentially lift the signature from - again, a requirement their tower, with access to all their records, would easily satisfy, but which would pose more of a problem for a hostile attacker.

    Also, such a forged contract would of course only last one turn at most.

    They could have still avoided needing to have the tower resolve everything by itself in an instant by having Jack succeed in delaying Ceasar just a few more moments, the tower having an ephinany, steal the juice, pass the power to Benjamin to turn it into money, and.. tower would still need to promote on it's own but maybe it would re-use the ditto-like effect, only this time copying Ceasar's will to defy Charlscom. Setting up an heir to continue the side would likely fit with payment schedule as it's rather necessary.
    An even better solution, if we want to improve things, would be to have it be something Parson set up somehow - eg. including a clause in the contract that GK will pay for TV's emergency appointment of a new heir, in an emergency, just in case something happens to Caesar.

    Also, establish earlier that HueHue is using dittomancy to fake a signature on the contract on account of Caesar being out of commission, something he can do because he knows the contract reflects Caesar's will.
    Last edited by Aquillion; 2018-10-24 at 01:44 AM.