You're an assassin,

[igotrhythm]

Re: You're an assassin,

Mainly, hesitation is caused by new input that needs to be processed and compared to what was previously known. To this end I support the idea of the assassin witnessing their target do a redeeming act while doing the necessary research to set up the hit. Perhaps while undercover as a servant, he is checking out the layout of the estate and sees his target do an appropriately altruistic act from an upstairs window.

Alternately, I could get behind the "false information" hook. The Oblivion Dark Brotherhood quest line has it made known that there's a traitor in the ranks, and that traitor uses your dead drop locations to have you knock off other members, so it's not like it hasn't happened before. However, this is less likely to happen given that the situation that led to this isn't a contract kill.

The last thing that could lead you to not pull the trigger is evidence that this target prepared for some other form of trouble that happens to be effective against your murder attempts. Maybe your target is also being hunted by an even more corrupt person or organization, such as a loan shark. This could even tie into the first idea I mentioned. (To catch a thief...)

[Emithith]

Re: You're an assassin,

That is just about what I was getting at !

Just took a look at it from a freudian perspective. My Psych final was today and all. So I'm all thinking is psych terms right now. Just like Tyler Durden was essentially the embodiment of a persons Id, perhaps make the next victim the embodiment of an insane girls superego. So reverse it. The physical part of the main character goes insane and the imaginary embodiment is the part that the main character may now realize has been holding her back from her "true potential" for all of these years. Not killing children for example.

For those of you who aren't taking a psych course or whatever it may be:
Superego is essentially the part of you that is rewarded by doing good. Guided by morals.

Id is the part that is driven by pure pleasure and nothing else.

Ego is the part that reasons with the two to come at a good conclusion.
Think the angel and devil on peoples shoulders, with the head in between.

On the other hand I'm totally touched you liked my idea !

You had to take psych classes to figure that out? lol I thought it before reading your post, then was like shit, ninja'd.