Open RP events: Q&A

[Gergel]

I've actually been wondering something for a while, but not sufficiently to make a new thread about it. But since there's now this here Q&A thread, I can get this question asked.

1. Reputation. Does it work in the open RP events?

Let's say the group is stopped on the road by Stormwind guards. These are real guards (not the kind of fake ones we met in Menethil that one time), working on real Stormwind business. They are not malevolently inclined, just doing their job. The guards stop the group and want to search them, or detain them, or turn them back. Then my character, who happens to be exalted with Stormwind faction in-game, steps up and says: "hey guys, surely you know me, the dude all Stormwind likes. I've done a lot of good for the people of Stormwind, so maybe you could return the favour and let us pass?"

What's the guards' response?