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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lylandra" data-source="post: 8003933" data-attributes="member: 6816692">Yeah, we really tried to embrace the themes that make Zeitgeist unique as an AP: That being spies/agents and not "adventurers" and the idea of philosophical/ideological conflict. Which, of course, involves exchanging ideas.So as characters, we usually tried to remove as much risk from the equation as possible. Sorry Leone <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />We're also suckers for interesting, recurring villains. And Tiz knows that we're quick to ask someone for their motivation to see whether we could possibly win this person over to our side. See Ottavia. For Leone, he convincingly played him as a man who told himself one too many times that he's going to be on the right side of history. He's a Crisillyiri fed up with the system of oppression and sees himself as a noble man who's striving to be the right hand of a woman he adores. Which of course includes doing her dirty work. He conspires because he wants change and glory but isn't open-minded enough to compromise on how to achieve it. He tries to appear gallant when he's acting like an unscrupulous brute. Thus, he is utterly blind to his own flaws. one thing he has in common with Nicodemus, even if the latter is far more refined.Regarding Testamenta, Tiz introduced her as a woman who craves the love of her childhood sweetheart to justify reviving him after we killed him in adventure 5. Having Carlyle pull out his soul of the Witchoil because of his beliefs (and because he wanted to talk to Leone one last time) was just a lucky coincidence.Oh and for Nic, there will be one scene in adventure 7 that I'd define as maybe the defining moment for all characters involved, even though there will be backs and forths afterwards. For a more thorough analysis of his character, Carlyle and Auryn dissected some of his personality aspects in front of Kasvarina  while climbing the Tower of <s>God </s> <s>Kefka</s> Triegenes.And oh poor Lya. We actually talked about her fate OOC as Tiz said that she was highly intelligent and we had made some really good points in the adventures up to this point that would make her reconsider the Obs' actions. But he said that he opted against having her switch sides as he didn't want to A) use a previously unknown NPC as Lya's substitute and B) deal with the fact that the Obs would very much send every assassin out there to kill her as he mused that they would succeed before Lya had the chance to seek refuge in Risur.</blockquote>

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