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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawken" data-source="post: 3672295" data-attributes="member: 23619">#1: There was no agreement not to attack the imp at the end of their agreement. The agreement was to work together;, nothing more or less was stated. Which they did. Even the OP stated that. They both met their goals (got their respective items). Any implied truce that came with that agreement ended when both sides met their goals (getting their items). Before then, the paladin didn't attack the imp. After the agreement ended (and the imp for whatever reason didn't get the heck out of there) was when the paladin took out the imp. #2: As I stated in a previously ignored response, silence does not equal or imply compliance. Whether the paladin was involved in the agreement or not, his silence on the matter does not indicate his agreement to it. And no one apparently bothered to ask him if he agreed to it; they just assumed he did because he was silent on the matter. That's called reserving judgment. He appeared to be going along with the agreement (by not attacking the imp immediately); however, as I stated before, only indicates he prioritized his goals and dealt with the immediate concerns of the group over a different, less immediate threat. Once the group met their goals, their main threat taken care of (and incidentally, the terms of the agreement with the imp met), then he took it out. #3: Argue all you want. It was a given (by nature of the paladin's class) that unless the imp fled, its very nature as a devil (that had to commit unspeakable crimes to become a devil) meant that the paladin was going to deal with it or attempt to at one point or another. You can try to rationalize your morality into it, but the paladin killed an evil fiend. Period. And the terms of the group's agreement with the creature had been met when it died, so there was no killing it while protected by a truce.And for those of you that argue the chance for the redemption of fiends or that not all of them are evil; take a trip down to the Abyss or Hell and see how many of them you can get to stop dismembering you and flaying your skin long enough for them to listen to your words and consider the "error of their ways"!</blockquote>

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