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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skinnydwarf" data-source="post: 1647817" data-attributes="member: 7024">That was my initial reaction.  But then I tried to think about why the players might have done what they did.  I mean, I can see why they thought they might have been overruled by a minority, but that is not how I saw it.The centaur is a retired adventurer, and the current employer of the party.  He wanted to investigate, because he didn't want Mahon taking over the kingdom, since he doesn't think Mahon will be a good king.  After he got over the fact that some of the guards he hired weren't with him on this, he was like, fine, stay here while I go do this.  Some of the guards were with him, and he was ok with that.  He wasn't too happy some of his guards weren't coming with him, especially considering how much he was paying them (1,000 GP each for a mere weeks journey), but figured that once he was done investigating, they would continue on.It's not like the PCs got together and voted on what they were going to do, and the majority was outvoted.  They were given a choice by their employer on whether they wanted to accompany him investigating the situation with the boy, some chose not too.  It just happened that they were the majority.  I didn't want to say "well, ok, he goes and does his thing and come back" becuase that was not fair to the two who wanted to investigate, so I was trying to play the investigation out, and hopefully it wouldn't take too long and we could get on to the next part of the adventure.  But then the rest of the party split.Thanks to everyone for all the advice, I'm sure it will help me figure out what to do.</blockquote>

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