[Githzerai Monk]

If you live on the edge and want adventure, by all means... go give Maurin a wedgie, see where it gets you. (Wether or not Maurin wears underwear is not up for discussion on this forum)

AHAHAHAHA!

My thoughts on this are that PCs should follow some sort of guideline. New players can make the mistake that all the other PCs on this PW want to help them. Us players do (And I'm happy to give directions to sections of the city via tell once PCs have bought a map, or help other PCs with lore that their PC would know), but as both of my red wizard PCs have hinted at occasionally, red wizards are not tour guides, same holds true for many other PCs.

The following process seems about right to me, though it shouldn't be followed like a law, it's more a guideline. It is not in any way complete and just what I come up with off the top of my head. Feel free to add to it or critique it. I'm in no way a model player, I've made my own mistakes as well. Making these mistakes is not an enjoyable experience, I encourage you to avoid it.

1) Give the other PC an IC warning that. "If you keep doing that, it might not end well for you." Some players aren't familiar with the idea of red wizards being the rulers of Thay, and this sometimes happens to Maurin. Being unaware of the setting alone is not reason to have your PC beaten to a pulp.

If a PC chooses to ignore a threat for any reason, that PC is completely open to have that threat carried out upon them. If they call the bluff, but it wasn't actually a bluff, then they cannot expect the other PC to act as if it was a bluff. Stage 1 and stage 2 are pretty close, don't think you have to stick with stage 1 for long.

2) Attempt to come up with some sort of punishment that will not render their character unplayable (Beating them down and not killing them usually suffices, but don't feel you can't get creative, carve your message into their scalp, disable them and then leave them at the mercy of someone nearer their level or simply some bystanders).

If you've tried methods that do not render the other PC unplayable, and the other PC persists in intentionally pissing off your PC, anything goes. Stage 2 and 3 are a lot further apart than 1 and 2, hang around on 2 for a reasonable amount of time before you head onwards to stage 3.

3) If after this they have not gotten the message, it's fair to say that you can kill, enslave, rob or do whatever your PC wishes to the other PC.

Proceed to stage 3 with caution, ensure that your PC has a -very- good reason to be doing harm that may be a little more permanently damaging to the other PC. If your PC is beaten down, they'll wake up in the morning and RP being sore, but they won't have any actual ill effects that negate any effort the player has put into the PC. However if they're robbed blind, killed or enslaved, the effects are much more permanent and character-breaking.

Don't break out of character to follow these guidelines. Pre-meditated attack would be fair to skip straight to the attacking segment, particularly if the attacker is attacking from stealth.