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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fajitas" data-source="post: 1020909" data-attributes="member: 377">The key to Stalwart is that on some level he knew he was doing wrong, but had constructed an elaborate series of self-delusions to convince himself he was in the right.  The problem was that these delusions were pretty fragile.  Once someone started kicking them apart, the whole thing came tumbling down around him.It started fairly small.  Desalle offered minor amounts of money for minor legal rulings in Missola's favor.  It wasn't 100% kosher under Pykosian law, but all the cases dealt with Aegosians.  "And after all," Stalwart told himself, "it's legal in Dar Aego."  What's the harm?Then the legal rulings started getting more serious.  People were sold into slavery.  Stalwart got more uncomfortable, but the money got better and there was always at least *some* evidence to suggest the accused were really guilty.  It was a Count versus a series of nobodies.  Any Aegosian court would have ruled the same way.  It wasn't Stalwart's fault that Dar Pykos let these things be decided under Aegosian law.  He was really just doing his duty, right?  Right?  He didn't want to look at things too carefully, because he was afraid of what he'd find if he did.  So it didn't really take a lot of pressure from Anvil to break him.  Also, unraveling this damned plot had already gone on way the hell too long. <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=":)" />For the record, the actual conversation was more involved, but the recounting of it suffers from a) lousy notes from the original session, which was almost two years ago, and b) the absence of Bad Monkey Jeff as Anvil at this session (I think.  No one can fully remember if he was there or not. For further details, see a)).As for Cyrus, yes, he was indeed a PC for a short time.  His player was only present at one or two sessions.  The character, however, stayed with the party for a while, as we kept waiting for the player to return.  Eventually it became clear that that wasn't going to happen, so poof, that was the end of Cyrus. He disappeared right about the point where spyscribe's chronicles left off for this extended flashback.</blockquote>

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