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Message: <blockquote data-quote="blargney the second" data-source="post: 3003235" data-attributes="member: 14678">Wik: I'm not too worried about the debate skills.  I do public speaking for a living, so I'm good at talking on my feet. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (Where are you on VI?)howandwhy99: I want there to be an action- and thought-provoking ethical ambiguity that plays sympathy and abhorence for both sides.  Philosophical discussion is a big umbrella that encompasses ethical discourse, so it's all the same as far as I'm concerned.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  I like your suggestion for incorporating snippets of ethics.  That should be easy enough to drop in anywhere.Quickleaf: The primary PC is a LN female xeph swashmonkler who is a refugee from Cyre.  Her family has a history with the lyre of building, so she has a vested interest in retrieving it.  She's recently encountered a wererat that is indirectly involved with the whole shebang.  Personality-wise she's a cross between Lara Croft, Storm from X-Men, and Mei from House of Flying Daggers.  She's accompanied by a warforged defender (a custom canine-formed WF) of as-yet undetermined motives.The lycanthropes are tied to organized crime through the halfling Boromar clan in Sharn as well as the Bilge Rats in Stormreach.  Their new settlement will be in Xen'drik, where the pressures can be pretty intense.  There are many factions/strains of lycanthrope that are cooperating to varying degrees in the construction of the settlement.  They mostly use the curse to afflict people in positions of power, keeping it as quiet as possible.The church is the Silver Flame, which is both widespread and focused in the theocracy of Thrane.  In this game I've decided that Flamists caused the Mourning when they found out about the military-grade disease.  There were relatively few prototype lycanthrope soldiers when Thrane nuked Cyre from orbit.  There are definitely some sects that are more fanatic than others.  I like your ideas of heresies and infected Flamists. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The Grumpy Celt: Umm, let's just call that a troll. :-|Raven Crowking: Consequences are a big part of what I'm hoping to set up.  If the PCs choose one side or the other at any given point, they should influence the outcome in various ways.  Actions and words should have equal opportunity to affect the future.-blarg</blockquote>

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