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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 473042" data-attributes="member: 4937">Elder-Basalisk:  I stand corrected.  I did not fully understand the description of the situation.Then the situation is not so entirely bleak as I suggest.  If they have been kidnapped, indoctrinated or not, they probably can be un-indoctrinated, and it probably wouldn't be all that hard given the fact that they _were_ kidnapped, and life with good hearted people very quickly becomes infinately preferable to life under vile people to the vast majority of people.  Also, children are highly impressionable, so its just as possible that they will 'convert' back now that the social situation has so rapidly changed (with alot of weeping and shaking) very quickly.  To many, this whole thing probably seemed like some sort of elaborate game - and the arrival of the PC's definately upset many of their new belief systems easily as much as getting kidnapped upset thier old ones.Clearly they are dangerous 'kids'.  Clearly you don't want to just dump them or leave them some place.  But I don't think it unreasonable to suggest that a good portion of the children could be salvaged after some time.  Those that can't be, probably need to be locked away for a very long time.There are some pretty complex RP oppurtunities here.</blockquote>