How could I get «person» to ____?

The asker completes this question with whatever thing hen hopes the person will do, for example, “How could I get the scout to tell me where he hid the bag?” or “How could I get the place to let me collect awareness from it?” As always, look to your agenda and principles when answering this question, and set the requirements you consider appropriate.

Sometimes, “you can’t,” might seem like an appropriate answer, but you might find that you usually mean, “only if you transform hen into a completely different person, with completely different beliefs and values and commitments and responsibilities.” That might not seem very far from “you can’t,” but it actually sets up several follow-up questions, like “How can I get hen to abandon hens beliefs?” and “How can I get hen to abandon hens values?” These might have similarly expansive answers, but a player willing to expand enough awareness could eventually break down even something seemingly insurmountable into a long series of achievable goals.

As with any other attentive question, these answers have agency. Honor them. When someone fulfills the conditions established, they achieve the goal they originally asked for. Don’t try to cheat anyone out of something they’ve earned by trying to add more conditions on later.

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