You call asking for a torture report metagaming, and then suggest crap like this?
I would never expect them to actually do it.
But then again, I don't see your point. It's a complicated manoeuvre, that is extremely costly and has probably poor odds of success.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies even closer". I didn't really give it much thought, as I never expected such a thing to happen (or hell, to be worthwhile at all), but upon a simple glance I don't see an issue with it. It's perfectly in line with the "plausible deniability" schemes that have been pushed and the social norms enforced by the game that say you really can't punish high nobles unless you proved they did something (if they are foreign, at least).
It's really not that good a suggestion, else people would have done it elsewhere already by now. Costs a ton of gold to move that house, and only heroes can do it too. Heroes are people who love risks, I guess, so that makes sense that they would be the kind of people willing to go buy a plot of land in hostile soils to set up there. Maybe you could argue that it'd be foolish to expose the family like that, but BM social norms dictate that they wouldn't be hurt. And besides, the house costs a tonload. Do you really think they build the mansion out of wood? It costs more than frigging walls! The family mansion is obviously fortified. And considering the ties they have with local rebels, I would assume that it is well-defended as well, and that any action against it would risk popular revolt. Hence why no BM character or NPC ever attacks the mansions.
Every part of it can be explained through IC means in a way that actually makes sense. Mind explaining to me in an IC way how we can know that scribe reports can never be fabricated or tampered with?
The kind of money that is needed to move the mansion is considerable. It leaves plenty of room for RP explanations of why things are as they are afterwards.
And note that this comment was just thrown like this OOC. While it could be justifiable IC, that doesn't mean it would be justified for everyone, and I don't see myself ever suggesting such a thing IC.
