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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RC Hagy" data-source="post: 1209744" data-attributes="member: 6164">Originally Posted by RC HagyThe more ambiguous the original situation the more carefully one should proceed in their solution.If those children had been possessed... then an effort should have been made to try and save them.HagyAh, yet even the portion of my post you quote does not imply half measures.The more unknowns the more knowledge one should gain to moreeffectively combat a threat. The party knew to little and got taken out. ForceUser was quite nice, I would have had the dominated party wake up after they had 'helped' the rats. From what many have written domination is not even an excuse... the Paladin would be in even more doo-doo by that standard.Children being dooped do to a child's impulsivness and shortsightedness?They became cultists... they did not start out that way. A fine distinction which the decades of evil invalidated... still something one should have considered... if there was time, which there turned out not to be.I think the children were used... at the beginning... the repeated killings are why what happened, in the end, is tolerable. Evil must be vanquished.All the more reason to regroup and formulate a good plan... hells even a bad one, especially since a plan breaks down after the first five seconds. Not having a plan means one must rely on luck when the 'expletive' hits the blade barrier.Standing around to get repeatedly tagged, and most likely ending up used for what you are trying to prevent from happening again, is not a good way to find out. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> I seem to remember a 'blasted' door and a companion lying unconcious' being mentioned...Always assume something is behind the next door, paranoia is ones friend.Again, I never advocated half measures.Subduing (not subdual) is not a half measure. Waiting is not a half measure.Killing is not usually a half measure... here it was. A threat is now, probably, able to return due to a lack of information gathered. As I have stated in a couple other posts things happened fast,Subdue, Wait or Kill were the only options. The paladin was alone he made a choice... it is between him and his god... which happens to be the DM.Hagy</blockquote>

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