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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ellinor" data-source="post: 5679408" data-attributes="member: 14561">You have a good point, Falkus -- but in a way, it's the best outcome we could hope for, since it's really the only outcome that didn't risk further inflaming the Tide or giving the Tide further ammunition to inflame the population against the Affirmation.  Plus, this was among the more "honorable" deaths offered by the Inquisition, which is not known for its mercy (!) and would ordinarily exact a far more public and prolonged death sentence on those who attacked the Inquisition.We can console ourselves, a bit, with the knowledge that as Questors, they constantly lived on the edge of life-threatening risk on purpose, and in this case, they knew that death would be the price if they were caught (or if they were defeated in a fight).  And there's still the man with the Glasses, who survived unpunished.  At the close of the session, Fajitas said "you know, before now I haven't had a lot of of chances to include a recurring villain..." and then let that hang in the air in a cloud of foreboding.  ::shiver::</blockquote>