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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 330928" data-attributes="member: 812">Yes, exactly. You wouldn't have very many, most likely, and most that you did have would probably lie low as long as possible -- they don't want to take the chance that there's somebody out there more powerful than them.This is why they're all so terrible. Only the nastiest and most determined, most willing to pay the price, will succeed.  My thinking was that it would be VERY high level. These people do nothing but study and acquire more and more power -- always trying to make themselves more and more invulnerable.Uh, yeah. Exactly. Of course, IMC, I spend a lot of effort on the PCs, coming up with story reasons for them to able to get along. So the campaign has afforded them ways of acquiring tentative allies and freakish powers of their own. The central idea of the campaign is that power is something that only comes to those who are willing to pay the price required -- and it's very difficult to come through that process and remain a recognizably moral person. People who have done so typically are either so shattered by the experience that they no longer hold to moral codes they once revered, or they now take such a long view of human endeavour that their short-term behaviour seems incredibly callous and inhumane to those who can't see the big picture.Boy, I sure like to talk about this...</blockquote>