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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3988927" data-attributes="member: 4936">I am trying...that's why I'm still here, talking. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And it's good! Because that last post of yours helped a bit to clear things up!I still think your take on things is weighted, but at least I can respond to that now.Your charges of maliciousness are unfounded though! Seriously. Now, I didn't shoot it...but if I'd had a bow I would have, so I will explain why I would have. The character who actually DID shoot may have other motivations, but I can't speak to that.Heat of the moment. Now, if I sit at home and dispassionately analyze, I can see: Yes...there were others that escaped. Therefore, killing the escapee doesn't really change anything...it's not like he learned something the others didn't. It's not like he'll bring more that the others couldn't.But if I'm roleplaying a young, adrenalin-soaked kid in the middle of a hostile forest at night, who just got woken up by a little gibbering freak who tried to stab me...and I'm holding a bow and suddenly that thing is getting away and it's running and...AH!You bet I shoot it. Does that make me a horrible person? Well...I don't think so. I guess you have to make that call. But it doesn't make me malicious. That much, I am safe refuting.---I don't think I ever once said the word evil in conjunction with these critters...and if I did, it wouldn't have been in its larger moral sense, but rather in its smaller, adjective sense like "evil grin" or "evilly sharp." Simple fact: I have not once -assumed- what the motivations of these critters are. I have based all my statements based on our reactions to their -actions-. Not motivations. Just to keep the record straight.So! To summarize:Fleeing prisoner shot, but not because we're coldblooded or malicious. Hope that helps clear up the misunderstanding. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My apologies if I misportrayed you, and I accept yours for doing the same. Lets all be friends! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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