[Mkguild] Cthulhu in Metamor

[Nigel Gregoire]

Okay, so difference: We know the Lutins are "evil".  They're recognizably 
so.  Call it prejudice, 'cuz it definitely be so, but I don't think it's 
unreasonable for most Keepers (who aren't affected by gore, anyway) to see 
a slaughtered Lutin and yell huzzah.

Now, cultists.  I'm sure most MK-ers would look at them and see nothing 
more than another Keeper, someone who is "one of us", no matter their 
secret evil leanings.

--
Nigel AKA Thaeus

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Michael Bard wrote:

> I know ALL about that.  It's part of the theme of these thing.  If
> somebody had a character go out and kill 100 Lutin, everybody would
> cheer.  Yet, Lutin are civilized (somewhat) intellegent sophants (tool
> using sentients) that are doing a bad thing.
> 
> Somebody goes and kills 20-30 evil cultists.  Everybody is horrified.  
> Yet, cultists are civlized intelligent sophants that are doing a VERY
> bad thing.
> 
> Why the difference?
> 
> Michael Bard
> 
>         I don't have a big problem with some... or yet another, should I correct... group without a reason to be doing what they're doing to be doing whatever it is that is going to get them slaughtered, badly, by whatever it is they're attempting to mess with.
> 
>         I *do* have problems, however, with rampant murder and mayhem being wrought within the population centers of Metamor... i.e. the keep itself, keeptown, Euper, whatever.  With someone wandering about as judge, jury, and executioner that makes no attempt to communicate their discoveries with any of the existing authority figures and bring these events to the attention of people who might, you know, be just slightly concerned that some yahoos are attempting to raise things bottled away by *gods* right underneath their feet??
>         And then said individual not being, hmmm, executed for murdering folks in their beds, or out in the street, or even hidden away in the woods?  These are not folk, I assume, involved in the act of trying to raise some beastie at the moment of their unheralded, unjustified, untried execution?  Yes, they might very well be guilty of everything they're being slaughtered for, but without bringing those suspicions to authority figures and taking justice into one's hands is a sure way to be labeled a criminal and arrested, tried, then executed for capital murder.
>         Authority figures do NOT like vigilantes, period.
> 
>         In total, I don't care about the summoning or the reasons for the odd little cult making the attempt, it's just the murders & justice that are an issue.  If you want to kill 'em, kill 'em doing what they're going to die for, not while they're in their beds if you expect to slip away without having some investigator, or mage, crawling up out of the woodwork at an inopportune time to haul you away in chains... or kill you.
> 
>         And then there are the odd powers of the unicorn involved... immortality/longevity, regeneration, et al?  I'm afraid I don't know the extent of her powers/abilities, so don't have much comment there... except for the fact that her prison time might be, well, somewhat lengthy.  Forever is a long time to spend in a dungeon.
>         --- On Tue, 8/12/08, Michael Bard <bard.michael at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>           From: Michael Bard <bard.michael at gmail.com>
>           Subject: [Mkguild] Cthulhu in Metamor
>           To: mkguild at lists.integral.org
>           Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 1:46 PM
> 
> 
> I've been using the term "Cthulhu" just for the evocative imagery
> of what
> I'm going for.  Last fall I went through the master plan ON THIS LIST.  It
> is *NOT* Cthulhu.  It is one of the Titans, stark raving mad, and imprisoned
> below the keep many many moons ago.  Raven, at least, though it was a great
> idea.  Nobody else raised a finger against it.
> 
> So, is this still fine, or has the opinion of the Metamor Collective changed
> (again)?
> 
> Michael Bard
> 
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