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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Jefe" data-source="post: 3144991" data-attributes="member: 19990">All right, it's been 24 hours and then some.  I realize that this might still settle out some over the next day or so, but I do think we've all had a good opportunity to air our frustrations and make some decisions for ourselves.I do want to address RA's last post, because it leads in to what I feel is the best resolution of the situation I can offer.  To wit:Under different circumstances, there is no question that this would be the right thing to do, painful as it might be.  My question is, is this the right thing to do for these particular set of circumstances?  RA offers some insight:Well, let's look at just what each player perceived, based on OoC comments starting at about post 909:Xael:  Based on the Almayce sblocks, which had Almayce present when Michael and Eternity tended to Stander, and also when the mounted group had only one soldiier, Xael believed that the party only had two soldiers and had left one behind.Rystil Arden:  Based on the Zaeryl sblocks, which matched the Almayce sblocks described above, RA believed that the party had all three soldiers.ajanders:  Based on the Michael sblocks, which matched the Almayce sblocks described above, ajanders believed that the party had all three soldiers, speculated that one might have regained consciousness and slipped away when the party was distracted when confronted with the possibility that the party only had two soliders, and didn't act offended (although somewhat surprised) when that suspicion was confirmed.  (Please correct me if I've misinterpreted your position, it was somewhat less clear to me than some of the others.)Erekose13:  Based on the Eternity sblocks, which matched the Almayce sblocks described above, E13 believed as RA did that the party had all three soliders.Patlin:  Based on the Ironwolf sblocks which placed Ironwolf away from the disputed action, Patlin counted two soldiers and assumed that the party had killed the third.B4cchus did not explicitly weigh in on this subject.So, which player/PC reality should I respect here?  E13's, whose character was right in the thick of things, or Xael's, whose character was just a few feet away?  I don't think Solomon could figure that one out, so I'm not going to try.  Rather, I'm going to just ask each of you to look at what you posted and recall your state of mind/understanding of the situation at the time, consider your state of mind at the present after having hashed this out, and give a simple (one paragraph please!) description of what you would want retconned, if anything.  If there's a majority, I'll take that as a consensus and make it so; if there's no majority but a plurality then I'll work toward establishing a consensus.  Once a consensus is established, if anyone is so dissatisfied with it that they feel they have to leave the game then I'll respect that and work with you to script a plausible and graceful exit; elsewise let's get back to the game and try to have some fun with it.</blockquote>

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