From: Bryan J. Maloney (jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu)
Date: Tue 21 Jun 1994 - 11:49:47 EEST
>Rom (initiate of SB) was in combat with a Chaos 'gator, Andara (initiate of
>CA) used her sleep on the creature Rom was in combat with(loosing badly too)
>and succeeded. Even when it was obvious the creature was helpless and above
>her protests, Rom killed it. They both feel they acted within their cult
>guidelines. Rom killed a creature under her protection(ala sleep spell),
>other then withholding healing (and reporting it to her High Healer) what can
>she do?
So basically, YOU decided to screw your characters over, eh? A Chalana Arroy would "do" nothing beyond witholding healing and reporting the transgression if it were cute and fuzzy bunnies that had gotten killed. She might scold the Storm Bull, but Chalana Arroy do not take violent retributive action.
>Can they reslove this? Rom feels he's done nothing wrong, the rest of the
>party is just blowing it all off. "We have plenty of healing don't worry
>about her. She'll get over it and if not, who cares."
Rom did nothing wrong. If he had let the creature live and not killed it at first opportunity, I would have ruled that he would have become an apostate. He would have been luck not to have been killed on sight at the next Storm Bull ceremony he attended if he hadn't offed that critter.
>I've set up cult/race incompatibilities on purpose in the past with accaptable
>outcomes for both sides but it looks like they are just going to ignore Andara
>except when they need her. Her player has already expressed an interest in a
>different character to keep this from happening again. I want to keep the CA
>and encourage more then just Hack-n-Slash. Ex ADnDers... *SIGH*
This is NOT an Ex ADnDer phenomenon. This is the result of assuming that a cult writeup (RoC Chalana Arroy) is 100% perfect and true. Why would Chalana Arroy give protection to Chaos? She used her gifts on the Lightbringers' Quest to HEAL the world's wound, NOT HELP IT! Chaos is a wound upon the world. Killing chaos creatures is the equivalent of surgery. Pustulated, gangrenous tissue must be excised or the patient will die.
>any suggestions on outcomes? possible resolutions? should she have known
>better?(it had already been identified as Chaotic by the Storm Kahn with them)
>How can he make contrition?(should he?) Bear in mind they will be in the
>swamp a while yet(with an assult on the fort at Ogre Knoll yet to come) so
>Andara won't be able to report to her High Healer for a while yet.
If it had already been identified as chaotic, she should have known better IN SPADES. What the Hell is a Lightbringer doing defending Chaos????????? I'd say that the Storm Bull was being remarkably restrained in not chopping her to bits as a filthy, chaos-loving slimeball.
>As a general rule, how would the CA at the Block deal with similer problems?
There are not similar problems at the Block. Storm Bulls kill chaos, Chalana Arroy heal Storm Bulls.
An enlightened Chalana Arroy or a Lunar Chalana Arroy (they have them, you know, or at least a cult that Theyalans would call Chalana Arroy--she's in Yelm's court) might defend a chaos beast. But for a good Lightbringer Chalana Arroy to defend a chaos monster, even one she had slept, is like a doctor insisting that a tumor be left in a patient because the tumor is "living tissue".
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