Decommissioned But Clever Anti-Phantom Rant

[worldstrider]

Understood and sorry it bugged you.

You said:

there was no way to talk my way out of getting destroyed

When I did sales, you always hear, "There is no such thing as no." Salesmen who came back without the cash and started making excuses--they were broke, the economy, etc.--were reminded by the sales manager that such things had nothing to do with whether or not they convinced the person what they had was worth buying--the fact was, they hadn't and that's what the sales manager would point out.

My guess (and I may be wrong as I wasn't there) is that you approached the Phantom the same way a salesmen approached his manager after missing a deal which is verbalizing, "Its not my fault and its not fair."

That's not role play--that was a pre-play of the post here.

Did your character fall on his knees and with tears beg for his life offering to do anything the Phantom asked? Did he offer to serve them and spy or betray someone? I'm betting he didn't.

It's not impossible, you just gave the wrong pitch and lost the sale.

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