You guys just gave me an idea. You all get the credit for this, I just call it as I see it.
If you think the smugglers should role play stealing the code, then the LSF ought to role play having a real code.
You want a code, you got a code.
The LSF:
1) Keeps and maintains access codes to the gate. These should change often. Permenant codes for senior officers could be used, but even those ought to change often.
2) Posts code in a place accessible only to the guards of the gate for reference.
3) Lets anyone with the correct code through the gate no questions asked
4) Kills anyone with the wrong code no questions asked
5) If any player with access is killed after or before the code is revealed, said player should not blow the whistle on the fact that the code is revealed as a matter of it being out of RP for a dead player to reveal that the codes have been compromised. Players privy to this knowledge without witnessing the event or hearing by a player other than the deceased player should not change the codes "Just to be safe" since they would have no knowledge of the fact that the other player had been killed. This is to keep from changing the codes in an out of rp manner and denying a good RPer their rights to what they worked for. Of course, threatened or trapped officers could refuse to give up the code or give a false code.
Anyone Going Through The Gate
1) Has to role play getting the codes from another player or
2) Has to overhear the codes or
3) Has to find the place where the codes are kept (Litterally stealing the codes. I feel that this would be epic to do and would be well within RP)
4) If the codes are wrong, gets killed.
5) Dead men tell no tales. If the player carrying the code is killed, said player is not allowed to spread the code to other players the rest of that day (Presuming the code is changed daily at least in order to be effective)
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