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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 3589460" data-attributes="member: 1165">She'd rather kill people than lie to them. I think that's crazy. But go on.Who cares? Personality matters more than level when they're not fighting.Who says she has to be funny? You can have a "straight man" in a humor comic.Orphans raised by monks can be well adjusted, as well, and even humorous. It really depends on the person.Shojo was a jerk, but that didn't make Miko right. Furthermore most people are told things like "you can be President" and they don't go insane.I would be. However...Her opening approach was valid. (I disagree that she has to announce herself as an officer of the law; she could only afford to do that if she had backup.)Yeah.No, this is where she does things wrong. The OotS did not deliberately weaken the fabric of the universe. Mind you, there's still this thing about a trial.However, the story was getting pretty bad at this point. Miko beats up the whole party (except Durkon) again, without any advantages this time? It was clearly a DM fiat story, as Roy himself comments, and those aren't fun.In a real game, Miko would have been beaten up. The party (except Belkar) wouldn't want to kill her though, as she's obviously a paladin. (Hello, smite evil!) They might even accompany her to Azure City, as the party didn't seem to have much direction at that point. However, they wouldn't have to take any nonsense from her, and would prove that point by beating her anytime she tried to use violence against them.Oh come on. The OotS consist of adults. They already know the difference between right and wrong, even Belkar. The heroes didn't go out to harm anyone innocent (except Belkar, but he's evil), and it wasn't their fault the assassins just happened to be around to try to kill people. In fact, IIRC the OotS (except Belkar) tried to rescue the innocents anyway.Because Belker isn't lawful stupid, a stereotype more tired and hated than chaotic stupid (which Belkar represents). Miko is so bad she makes him look good! Another thing I noticed about Belkar; he wasn't shown on-screen killing innocents until after he met Miko. Sure he failed to protect V from the Ghasts, but last time I checked mages do have access to defense spells.He's also funny, in a low-brow kind of way. (Why do people find jerks like Homer Simpson funny?)But yeah, no one would tolerate him in their party. Sometimes Haley is as bad, but at least she doesn't hurt people.She really screwed things up afterwards - she didn't "fall" when she was escorting the "prisoners".Furthermore, if paladins can't show sense, then maybe there's something wrong with them.</blockquote>

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