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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawkeye" data-source="post: 3808572" data-attributes="member: 9200">Shando speaks to Timrin verbally:  "My friend I am as mortal and fallible as you are.  I have little doubt that these men are guilty of the crimes they are accused of and should be punished according to the laws of those they have wronged, but I will not stand aside and watched them be slaughtered like helpless animals.  To do so would be a violation of what I believe in.  We may have not had any legal authority here in Rasheman to order their surrender, but we did have the moral authority to offer them the chance to lay down their arms and face judgement at a later time.  They did so, trusting in your word as a Paladin that they would not be slaughtered.  I stand by and with your word.  I will not allow those who can't defend themselves to die at this point in time.  It does matter in the long run.  He faces out to the oncoming mob:  "Look at yourselves:  You are so caught up in the bloodlust that the only thing you can think of is killing and revenge.  You want to kill them so badly, that you are even willing to stoop to their level and kill those that are unable to protect themselves.  Do the unconscious Thayvians at our feet scare you that much?  Are they truly that much of a threat to you, lying here, unable to raise a weapon in their own defense?  Will you one day tell great tavern stories on how you freed this city by slitting the throats of the helpless warriors?  Will you boast of such feats to your children and grandchildren?  Will bards write great epic poems and songs about your "valorous" deeds this day?  Is that what passes for your warrior culture in Rasheman?  Is that something you can truly be proud of?  You can have your justice on those that can defend themselves for that is your law, how you decide the rightness of things, but these that are unable to to defend themselves, you can wait.  There has been enough death this day."Shando looks over the the Valkyrie:  "It is said the the Valkyrie are Battle Maidens, taking valiant and worthy warriors to their final rest.  Battle is in your nature.  It is who and what you are.  I would no more expect you not to fight then I would expect a carp to walk on dry land, but what you want to do to those at my feet is not battle, but butchery.  Is that what the Valkyrie have come to now?  Have they run out of opponents to fight across the planes, so now they must fight those that cannot defend themselves?  Who will your next mighty opponents be?  Babes in the arms of their mothers?  The blind or cripple?  You are creatures of chaos?  Is not one of the most touted arguments for chaos out there, freedom?  You are free to choose to act or not to act?  I ask now, that you choose not to act in this case, until those here are able to defend themselves properly.  Who knows, there may be one here that could give you a battle worthy of a Valkyrie.  You would never know because they were slaughtered in their sleep.  I will tell you this:  If you do come for them, battle is what you will have.  I may die this day, but I will die standing by my principles." Shando lights up with his Holy Radiance.  "I have Ilmater's blessing this day.  You have Lord Oberon's.  Do we truly want to risk their champions' this day over something that can wait a few days and best be left in mortal hands?Sarah, seeing Shando light up, does the same.OOC:  Gorak, there is a bit of a threat there in your OOC in regards to the flying ship.  This is a game, nothing more to me,  but I don't take kindly to threats.  Impyling that the flying ship gives you some sort of hold over my character or the others doesn't sit well with me.  I will play my character as I see fit within the bounds of his personality and background.  Having Helm or Ilmater suddenly appear and defuse the situation is a cop out.  I am certain they have better things to do than trying to stop an argument in Rasheman.  This isn't the first time I have been on either side of a conflict between LG and CG and it probably will not be the last.  Inter-party conflict is part and parcel of D&D.  If you haven't ever been involved in one, you haven't been playing very long.  In one party that I was in, the characters would often resort to fist fights.    If I could remind you of something:  It was Sir Timrin's cohort that brought yours back from the dead was it not?  Your character didn't seem to have a problem with people who stood behind the shield of righteousness then.  Why now?  No worries, I have no plans on leaving because of this kind of disagreement.  I am sure the others feel the same.  We all appear to enjoy the drama way too much.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Hawkeye</blockquote>

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