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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickbeam" data-source="post: 4233713" data-attributes="member: 635">Keep it coming!Keep the posts coming Hobo.  As Stockdale indicates, reading about the exploits of our group is almost as much fun as playing through the actual sessions.  And like Majicthise notes the spoiler text was great -- it allows the players to read the SH updates without gathering information not intended for our PC's.  I've been away from EN World for a while (too long probably) and don't remember this tool being employed quite so effectively in years past.I love the massively over-powered ring having a rather serious downside, and even better the seemingly trapped soul/essence/being is that of a purported deity.  Teren'Kol (hereafter TK) isn't really worried about releasing such a being into the world.  The way he sees things, such an entity would more than likely be thankful for its release and have no quarrel with him.  The problem lies in having his CON drained at inopportune times.  TK has a purpose to fulfill and he doesn't intend to let anything stand in his way.As to group dynamics and why this motley assortment travels together, I really don't know.  Each character has a rather perplexed viewpoint on his/her companions.  The way I see things, trust isn't at the core of this fellowship.  They travel together because the others represent a support network for each character to use in attempting to achieve their own individual objectives.  Not a pretty picture, but effective to date.For my part, I feel that one explanation regarding TK's actions is critical.  Having himself been enslaved as a youth, TK loathes slavers with every fiber of his being.  He would normally stand in opposition to using people as sacrificial vessels for the oracle's prophecies.  But in his mind, the captured press gang thugs forfeit their rights as living beings when they began working for fleshtraders.  Simply put, the freedom they so readily took from others by force, justified him ending their lives in whatever manner he saw fit.  I'm not looking to open a discussion on TK's morals, ethics, or values...just trying to explain why he elected to use the captured goons to obtain information from the oracle.Hopefully we get together again this weekend as planned.</blockquote>

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