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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7146203" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Strahd came and attacked the Rogue for killing her, but since I had immediately started bringing her back he didn’t have much reason to freak out. The second time he killed the Rogue, attacking until he was dead, and continued attacking the party, I also still made it clear my intention was to bring her back that second time as well.The fact Strahd attacked us for killing her seems to be enough to convince the party that she was lying about being terrified of him and that she was really evil, because why would he attack us if she was a good person who wasn’t working for him (I get why, they don’t it seems)Also, he has said repeatedly that he is running a modified version of the adventure, to compensate for our power and the fact that this is essentially a sidequest. The more I talk to them though, the less and less I believe they were lashing out against the DM. Frankly, we thought this woman was a maid when we first encountered her, we never learned her name, and only one of us has ever played CoS before and he wasn’t the one inciting the violence. From the perspective of the group, she was literally a faceless NPC with no significance for the plot so killing her would have no ramifications for the game. None of us use alignment officially in the game. I used Lawful Good as a shorthand for the type of character I was playing. I have no idea what they wrote on their sheets and they’ve never said. So that isn’t the issue here, according to one of them, they do it for “those dank memes”… which I don’t see how that has a bearing on the decision points I’ve been objecting to, but that’s how it was explained. 2nd: Yeah, I keep thinking that, but then they get frustrated with me being the straight man, telling me I’m too strict and serious and they just wanna have fun. I’m mildly curious how they are going to treat my new guy but he is not going to have the same role as my Cleric, his most severe reaction to the murder of innocents is going to be “that was a waste” because he wants to make a cult and become an archedevil, not that he’s going to tell them that. I’ve never played a character who selfishly wants power before, so it’ll be interesting for me at least. An experiment.3rd: Well, first of all, my character and the person who left the group were the only two who really considered her a friend. To everyone else she was a rando-NPC. One of the other players, when I expressed concern over her dying if we took too long by going overland instead of buying a boat, pretty much said they could care less if she died or not. But, we also didn’t care about Strahd, they went into the Death House purely because they wanted to kill a monster and the DM placed the house in front of us. To force us to continue he took the soul of the character belonging to the person who left, trapped it in the mist, and said the only way to save her was to kill Strahd. That character is literally the only one all of us care for. We can’t abandon her, in fact, that is one of the only things that bothers me about my character leaving the party. It feels like I’m abandoning her, and the only way it makes sense it to know they won’t abandon her and they kicked Strahd’s teeth in while my character was tied up on the floor, so clearly they don’t need his help. He is going straight to his friend though, and the DM already talked it through with me about how I rescued her and what condition she was in when I found her. 4th: I do like the group, and I do think some of the things they do are funny, I just wish it was more “Bad Company” than “Silence of the Lambs” (I think I got those two movies right)</blockquote>

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