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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Capellan" data-source="post: 591447" data-attributes="member: 6294">I'm ashamed I didn't think of this earlier.The LoT have lots of enemies, right?  Many of whom are neither powerful enough to attack them personally, nor corrupt enough to assist the Iuzians or other evil force take them out.But, as has been discussed in the story thread lately, the LoT are verging into some pretty 'grey' activities.  Assisting in assassinations (however thoughtlessly).  Doing secret deals with the Lord of Stoink.  Tolerating 'regime change' as a political expediency.So let's say someone - the Baroness, probably, since she would be working her way to the LoT from the Lord of Stoink.  Now, whoever this person is, they haven't got the resources to hire the kind of firepower needed to take down the LoT, and they don't want to deal with the bad guys.So they go looking for heroes.Real, honest to god, "no trafficking with villains" heroes.  The kind of people who do not agree that the ends justify the means.And this person says to the heroes:"Hey, those LoT guys.  They're doing a great job, fighting Iuz, but have you ever stopped to ask yourself what their motivation is?  Because I've found some worrying evidence that they're really just after personal power and riches.  Here are some examples ..."Suddenly, the LoT find genuinely good-aligned groups of heroes turning up, trying to warn the Tenhians about the LoT's 'suspect' motivations.  Maybe even attempting to incite armed resistance.How do they react?The great thing about this is that the heroes don't even have to be anywhere near the LoT's power levels. Say a party of six 5th-7th level adventurers (or less).  The kind of people who the LoT could annihilate in a round or two.Warning them doesn't work: heroes don't quit.  Arguing with them doesn't work: they have good evidence that the LoT are suspect.  And meanwhile, the Lord of Stoink is getting agitated by the exposure, demanding a 'quick fix', or he'll take matters into his own hands.In time, the LoT will probably find themselves with two choices: acquiesce to something that is unequivocally evil (say the murder by poison of the six adventurers and their rag tag group of followers) or finally take a stand on a moral point and work against the Lord of Stoink.Could be fun <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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