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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Satin Knights" data-source="post: 5593062" data-attributes="member: 6666968">The "There you go jumping to conclusions again." was to Firvin.  You don't go, as the new stranger in town, telling the sheriff, "Unless the priest can perform a ritual to cure him,  we are afraid that he will have to be put down for the good of the  community."  about someone he has lived around and known for quite a while.  The sheriff is going to make you enemy #1 for the whole town and you are likely to be hanging from a rope by nightfall.Firvin needed a verbal slap in the face for her (paraphrasing) "We don't think this guy splattered blood and did the graffiti.  But, we are not sure, so you should kill him."  That bloodthirsty disregard for life needed to be beat down or all of the party would be beaten down with the next GM's post.  And to that particular NPC, I have already established that I am the "blunt, no BS, straight answer" person, while our lady speaks with a measured, silver tongue that may, or may not, not speak the whole truth, but she is too skilled that one is never sure. The rest of my statement was to everyone in attendance.  The sheriff and us.  It could have even included Geb, but I don't think Firvin's statement just before would have been in front of him, so mine would not have been.A) We can reasonably assume as fact that the blood is of the rat. B) The perpetrator walked from the barn to the monument.  The trail was found.C) Geb is kind of dumb, and the "assumed enemies of the Professor" are rumored to be a bit more intelligent than him.D) The GM's  "So either the man they spoke to is a great liar (doubtful) or he did something he doesn't remember doing." isn't the only two possibilities.  Someone else using the barn while Geb was asleep is a possibility, as I said.E) Not stated, but another point, Geb is an easy patsy because he was public about attacking us before.  Therefore, we know, whoever made the mess, did their prep work in the barn.  We know it is rat's blood, and a humanoid didn't die in the process.  We "know" nothing more than that.  Firvin's wild statement should have prompted the sheriff to draw his sword on us.  If you don't like my attempt to diffuse the situation, don't make such explosive statements to NPCs on behalf of the party.  If you had said that Geb might have been controlled without his knowing by magic, then I would not have stepped in.F) I took Gregori's "Or some moon-tainted beast" statement as just general feral, gruesome nature.  Not an intended course of action. (by the way, I like it)  He even decided it wasn't the prudent action two posts later.  Firvin wants to be the face of the party.  That is fine.  Don't make wild statements that push us into fights with the law or good guys, and you can do that job.  And last time I got chastised for speaking up, I had actually earned a trust point, instead of possibly losing one.  -Satin Knights</blockquote>

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