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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 3242191" data-attributes="member: 5203">The "Evil Legacy" story is one I've had a mind to write for a while, but just had to wait until the right moment.  Because, what fun is an evil party story if everyone doesn't betray each other in an orgy of blood?  But it had to feel right to me - the party had to be at a point of personal and political power where they would feel like they were able to strike out against the group in pursuit of their personal goals.  If I'd written it sooner, it would have felt forced to me - like I shoved the characters into a confrontation they weren't ready to have yet.Too many people think playing evil is about backstabbing your party at the first opportunity - an intelligent person would utilize the group to further their goals and keep them as allies/resources as long as possible.  I honestly think that if our group really did play evil characters, you'd never see a scene like this - we'd figure out that we're a lot more likely to meet our goals for personal power if we stuck together.  There's no rule saying that evil people can't get along or cooperate.I also should clarify one thing about the Evil Legacy story.  Arrie would not actually be in line to be Empress.  She's not of the Imperial Family, so she's classified as a Princess, not an Imperial Princess.  If Haxtha and Herion were to die, the title would go to Aralda.  Haxtha has no heir (his firstborn son was killed two years ago in game), and the Emperor doesn't marry, so there is no spouse to take the title (the Emperor has an official Consort, who bears his children).  I just figured that since I was bending continuity for the story anyway, that one more twist wouldn't hurt.As for Lanara's opportunism, well, one had to assume that an evil Lanara would simply take her penchant for social climbing to its logical extreme.  I do sometimes wonder if Lanara's player gets frustrated by the frequent references to her 'free-spirited' nature (there are as many references to it at the table as there are here, if not more).  While certainly flirtatious, and with a penchant for non-conservative dress, and non-apologetic about her efforts to connect with persons of influence, I actually think Lanara does far less sleeping around than it appears.  Not that it's going to stop us from making comments, of course, any more than people are going to stop teasing Tolly about his tendency to end up in the company of very young women, or teasing Kyle and Autumn about their romantic life (though now Arrie is fair game for this, too, now that she's finally consummated her relationship with Herion).</blockquote>

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