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Message: <blockquote data-quote="twofalls" data-source="post: 2149957" data-attributes="member: 23718">You have a good argument, though the facts are a little mixed. The Zhents cared nothing for the Gnomes. The Undead Sorceress who ruled (in very loose terms) the Spiderhaunt Forest was slowly exterminating them. The Gnomes were a side thread to the Randal Morn adventure, though in truth, they are long term more important to the PC's than Randal Morn ever was. They don't know this yet though, so Shhhh! <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=":)" /> The Zhents wanted the Sword of the Dales which the PC's carried on them (and still do incidentally), and to a lesser degree they wanted to execute these troublemaker PCs who had caused them so many headaches in other situations. The Sword of the Dales was the prime Zhent goal however. The Zhents weren't even aware that Randal Morn was a captive of the Sorceress or they would be going after her as well to make sure of Morn's death. Delay was the risk to the Gnome village. It was under seige by Giant Spiders and Ettercaps who had been slowly over centuries mind poisoned against all intelligent inhabitants of the woods. The PC's were afraid of two things, if they took the captives back to the village either the place would fall to the onslaught (the villlage was tottering on the brink), or Randal Morn (the bait the Sorceress was using to lure the PC's to her ruined tower in their dreams) would be killed before they arrived to rescue him. Neither would have happened, but they didn't know this.Regardless, slaying the Vet was wrong IMO, and since I have to judge these things in my game that was my ruling. Where I went wrong was when I personalized it.Edit: However I can't discount the many points you and the other posters here on this thread have brought up. It's been a lot of food for thought over the past couple of days.</blockquote>

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