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<blockquote data-quote="jrowland" data-source="post: 6715373" data-attributes="member: 94389">Well, perhaps he isn't enslaved by the aboleths...a moral dilemma that in hindsight was a lose-lose proposition. The classic drop the rock onto the people on the tracks (killing them) but preventing the train from slamming into the more people further down killing more. The only way out is to reject the boundaries of the dilemma and do something else. He didn't.Going wit Mercy:The Aboleths sent their enslaved into the world to abduct people. The Knight fought his way to the Aboleth lair and discovered that if he killed the Aboleth a contingency spell would dispel the magic of a wall of force &quot;bubble&quot; where the enslaved lived, and thus would kill all the enslaved. Showing mercy to the Aboleths ensured the enslaved would live. The Aboleths let the enslaved free in return for their own freedom. However, returning to the keep, the knight discovered the place enslaved by the Aboleths, and these minions sent out to the world to wreak havoc. The people (and other heroes) rose up against them, killing them, and finally besieging the surviving knight in the keep and the freed (1st group) enslaved. In his hubris, he refused the &quot;justice&quot; of the besiegers not trusting a fair trial, and fought them, many of them no more than peasants with pitchforks. this is how he fell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jrowland, post: 6715373, member: 94389"] Well, perhaps he isn't enslaved by the aboleths...a moral dilemma that in hindsight was a lose-lose proposition. The classic drop the rock onto the people on the tracks (killing them) but preventing the train from slamming into the more people further down killing more. The only way out is to reject the boundaries of the dilemma and [I]do something else[/I]. He didn't. Going wit Mercy: The Aboleths sent their enslaved into the world to abduct people. The Knight fought his way to the Aboleth lair and discovered that if he killed the Aboleth a contingency spell would dispel the magic of a wall of force "bubble" where the enslaved lived, and thus would kill all the enslaved. Showing mercy to the Aboleths ensured the enslaved would live. The Aboleths let the enslaved free in return for their own freedom. However, returning to the keep, the knight discovered the place enslaved by the Aboleths, and these minions sent out to the world to wreak havoc. The people (and other heroes) rose up against them, killing them, and finally besieging the surviving knight in the keep and the freed (1st group) enslaved. In his hubris, he refused the "justice" of the besiegers not trusting a fair trial, and fought them, many of them no more than peasants with pitchforks. this is how he fell. [/QUOTE]

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