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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 6243907" data-attributes="member: 386">That looks like a valid interpretation to me.  The interesting question is why you decided to use that specific backstory.Makes sense - I confess, it's hard to keep track of everything going on in this thread.  Maybe it would have been better to stay on point; but that wouldn't have been as fun!I think the idea was that the war troll was going to be interrogated before the court, and the acid was there to use on him if he got away.  Yeah:"A captured troll. He was being interrogated in the lower levels and the war counsel now wants to question him directly."Then I had the war troll attack the chamberlain because 1) I thought there was something fishy with him and hoped that the attack would force him to reveal himself and 2) because I thought he deserved to die.At this point, I'd describe Quinn as mercenary, at best.  Probably heading down the villain path, though that's up to one's own judgement.  (When I first made him up I said: "I am not sure who Quinn is or what he believes in; we'll discover that in play.")  He was only there to get rich, after all, and did not care about the city or what happened to it.That's probably my fault, because I "escalated" to violence when I attacked the chamberlain (using my war troll proxy).  This is how the players end up driving play.That's a good question.  I think that it could work that way.  The players are going to judge that contribution to the game's fiction - not in terms of action resolution, but whether or not they like it.  If someone keeps taking actions that you don't like, maybe the two of you shouldn't play together - your aesthetics don't mesh.  Which is fine and good, I think.Because I was invested in seeing the dryad, her godess, and Lucann being reunited, and I thought the chamberlain deserved to die.  My own personal beliefs about these "problematic aspects of human interactions" - self-important bureaucrats getting a kick out of their power to say "no" even if someone gets hurt, and the relationship between someone in power (Sehanine) and their responsibility to their wards (the dryad).I could have brought things back to a more diplomatic state, but I didn't want to.  (I could have tried to calm down the war troll and used that as leverage against the chamberlain - we're doing something to help the people while you just sit there - and rally the crowd that way.)  I wanted to hurt the chamberlain.My guess is that was because the roll was successful, but [MENTION=6696971]Manbearcat[/MENTION] can probably give you more information there.  (My intent was: "I want to know if the Lord Chamberlain is directing these beasts against the people here.")</blockquote>

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