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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 5097319" data-attributes="member: 40233">You know, it seems to me that one problem here is that it's not clear why the ultimate moral arbiter here should be the pc's.  It seems that their role is acting as a sort of "police" for the White Council.  In the real world, it's not a policeman's job to decide punishment, only investigate crimes and arrest suspects.  Proper punishment is outside their jurisdiction.   So we have the players, acting as police, presented with a wrongdoer, who resists arrest.  So they overcome her minions, and capture her.  And like cops, they turn her over to the proper legal authority.  What happens to her after that isn't really their problem.Besides, if there is a trial, there is a chance of acquittal.  The White Council is made up of humans too I presume, are they uniquely immune to pleas of "youth and foolishness"?  And if they are, why are the players working for them?  And at least in canon, the White Council is not completely heartless; they let Dresden live, didn't they?Perhaps have the PC's asked by the defense attorney (or White Council equivalent) to investigate and find exculpatory evidence to clear her name.  Maybe it turns out there's a sinister force at work that needs her dead, and they're manipulating the White Council into doing the dirty work.  So the PC's get the goods, but then the defense attorney winds up dead, so the PC's wind up having to make the defense in front of the Council.  Dice are rolled, speeches get made, and then the girl is put on "probation", possibly assigned to work with the PC's.</blockquote>

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