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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kemrain" data-source="post: 2021765" data-attributes="member: 12153">What I've seen the most from this thread is suggestions for how to deal with the issue of slavery.  Though it would make for a good campaign, it isnt' where we're headed at the moment. We are dealing with an immediate stuation of saving these 24 slaves from those 40 slavers. Once it's over, and the slaves are free and safe, the characters will certanly be more aware and alert for slavery issues, but they have bigger fish to fry than "the eternal struggle of mortal agaisnt mortal."  I know it will come up further down the line in the campaign, but, as we've been playing it for 3 years (1.5 years in game) and see no signs of stopping soon, it's a problem we can come back to.The issue has been brought to a head in game mostly because of Belle. If we won't help her, she'll try to free her friends on her own, and she'll die. Stopping her from doing what she feels is right would be wrong in the Angel's eyes, and Melissa agrees (Chaotic-ish alignment talking there), so if we don't help she goes alone. Given that she's the niece of Melissa's adoptive father, she's like family, and we don't want to see her dead. On top of that, everyone involved agrees that what the slavers is doing is terrible, and wants them to stop. Given that, we have to free the slaves and bring them to safety, however, it's also important to us to keep these slavers from ever abusing people, especially children, ever again. The slavers are mostly guilty of things that would make the half-demon flinch, or so Belle says (she did lie and tell us the slavers had magic items to destroy to help motivate us in case we weren't good people). We don't have the time to start a smear campaign or run them out of business, and buying the slaves would just encourage them to get more, even if we can afford it.  We're a day or two out of the slavers farm, we have enough food for 2 for more than a week, and I can live off the land, but we don't have enough for the slaves.  The slavers probably do, and they have horses and wagons to help get the kids out with.Given all this, the best solution we've come up with is killing the slavers, stealing their food, horses and wagons, freeing the slaves, burning the farm to the ground, and escaping into the night, heading for the free city of Grensha in the north.Although the suggestions for abolishing slavery are good, and we appreciate them, at this time they aren't what we require.  We're looking for alternatives for killing the slavers, and we've got some. Selling them into slavery was suggested, and while poetic, it's something that none of the characters would be willing to do, even Belle. To this group, murder or execution is more of a good answer than perpetuating slavery. Ruining them financally is a great idea, and if we had the time we'd be happy to do that. We have an ansy 12 year old who has revenge in her eyes and wants to get her murderin' on, though, and we can hardly blame her. I've talked her out of torturing the slavers to death, but she's convinced that murder is the only way to go, and as a perfect prevention plan, I have to agree.- Kemrain the Not-Quite-Complete.</blockquote>

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