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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3143643" data-attributes="member: 29014">The later post was only because I was out of character certain that we had all three because I misread from the way you stated it.  As you can see, though, at least now, Zaeryl was by my intentions, absolutely first and foremost making sure they had all the soldiers.  Heck, he went on a crazy suicidal chase after the soldier at a full sprint and then dragged him despite obviously approaching enemies--that's pretty clear intent.  If he only wanted two and a fast escape, he could have had the one Eternity dropped and Ironwolf's easy as pie and they'd have been out of there four rounds early--as such, I find the idea that you could construe he didn't want to take them all, even the obvious third one, a bit ridiculous and unholdable.  I do agree that you have a right to a 'gotcha--you forgot the third one', though I wish you hadn't exerted it, but I don't think there's any room to claim that this was Zaeryl's intent.  If it's intent that matters, now that it's been clarified, perhaps we could clear it up and say we have him? <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />  Guess not <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />By not allowing him to know that we only had two soldiers, even later when he mentioned we had them all (until now when I called on it out of character) you have destroyed my vision of Zaeryl and my desire to continue.  In earnest, I'm strongly considering retiring the character because it has been intense enough almost to eliminate my desire to play him, and coupled with the fact that he wouldn't in character leave the party right now and that's going to be untrue to him, I think I just might stop playing him and make him an NPC or something--I don't know, but that's how much my concept was ruined.  I will admit that what seemed like consistent calls that went against the party day by day blow by blow over and over to the point where I c\had to rules-lawyer just to keep us going began to lead up to this, but I think the problem would have disappeared and we were about to work it out if not for this.I know you aren't willing to compromise here, that's absolutely your right as GM and I would never think of making you do so or especially of some kind of holding the game at ransom or filibustering it to have things changed--that's why instead of doing that, I'm just dropping out.  My enjoyment of this game and even of the character have basically been eliminated, which is somewhat problematic as that affects Lasair too.  Even so, I remember your mentioning earlier something about being worried about dropping out of LEW--rest assured, even if I have to pull out both of my characters, that won't happen.</blockquote>

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