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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 4657770" data-attributes="member: 29252">Mostly because stuff happening inside the party is usually a lot more emotionally invested by the real-life players than is stuff happening between the party and NPC's.  Additionally, people that have worked together through a lot of danger will have different reactions than relative strangers.  Otherwise, not so much.The murder is the evil action; the chaotic action is in attempting to evade the law by hiding the body.  Per OP follow-up after I posted, they were doing more than just restraining the crazy guy (they kept hacking after he keeled over unconscious), which points to deliberate lethal intent.  Between it all, it then becomes a rather CE act.  Do note, though, that a goodly chunk of this depends on whether you treat a dead body as having rights similar to what you'd assign to a living person (modern US law does, to a certain degree).  If the corpse is thought of as simply so much meat, then there's no particular Good/Evil action in disposing of the body in a reasonably convenient manner (although there is the Law/Chaos issue of evading murder charges).  If the corpse is thought of as the last remains of the deceased, worthy of respect in it's own right, then desecrating the body is an Evil act in and of itself (with a few classes of exceptions - necessity, such as making sure the body can't be animated as an evil undead - and following cultural protocol ... but the situation as painted includes neither of these, so that's neither here nor there).</blockquote>

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