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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 5112484" data-attributes="member: 2093">I"m going to assume this is a fantasy-type setting. They need to see the evil they're doing as absolutely necessary to achieve the good they believe they will do. So perhaps they are young people who have just been taken into a powerful but secretive order which is reputed to be the only protection the world has against some legendary evil. The order is very reclusive and rarely seen in the common world, but they were selected, taken to a hidden camp, and initiated.Now they're told they have a very short time to carry a message to a person in a particular place. Unfortunately, to do so they must act very hastily, and in secret, without revealing their mission for fear that enemies will stop them. They are also warned that not ALL the people in their order are aware of the mission, so they may be stopped and questioned by fellow members. It is important that they NOT reveal what they are doing, in order to prove their trustworthiness.In the course of completing their mission on time, they must do such things as ride their mounts into exhaustion and death; ride through/over a group of innocents, possibly injuring or killing some of them; bribe or otherwise overcome the guards at the city gates/walls; lie to a fellow member of their order, kill servants or guards who try to stop them from reaching their destination, etc....Of course, it turns out at the end that all they are doing is a lie. They have not been inducted into the secret order, but into the order of their worst enemies/rivals. The mission they are doing will permit a great evil to be completed (maybe a ceremony that summons some horrific monster?). If they ever stop to question what they're doing, the answer becomes fairly obvious, but will they?</blockquote>

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