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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirth" data-source="post: 464301" data-attributes="member: 5242">First of all, I want to stress that I don't want this to boil down to a OOC firefight. This will be all that I have to say on the subject. I've played my share of evil characters in my day as both a DM and a player. I'm not arguing this as a RL point, but as an in-game point. Here goes:I wouldn't have a problem if these laws and ways of life had been established in the background of the game beforehand, instead of being dropped into the game with the expectation that all of the characters were aware of it and accepted it as "the way things are." But slavery wasn't mentioned until the beginning of this chapter of the game. Also, if Jericho's culture (which we as players don't know much about, aside from a couple of sentences of background, but I'm assuming our characters would know about) is based on RL practices of middle eastern and eastern cultures that have strict punishments for theft (such as the loss of their right hand or public beatings), then I would find fault with Jericho's act. In those RL cultures, the thief would be imprisoned first and then subjected to a public punishment (even death) after deliberation. But no one would find the indiscriminate murder of a child to be suitable or acceptable punishment for such an offense. And none of the law who enacted a punishment against the guilty would be so non-chalant and unfeeling about meting out said punishment. The way it was handled in-game smacks of evil to me, with no excuse for culture making Jericho's callous dismissal of his act any less so. This is so much conjecture on my part though, because we have been given only the sketchiest details about the campaign world.If that's the way it has got to be, so be it. Tarowyn will act accordingly.And I do believe this discussion belongs OOC. And I am enjoying the game quite a bit.Not in agreement but not confused anymore,Jay</blockquote>

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