<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=303515.msg14975413#msg14975413">Quote from: pdragon on 19-07-2019, 20:58:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'm curious to know what the plan was to introduce a character who's literal goal is to take out the main character that didn't involve her being antagonized. I mean, the entire premise of the game is that everyone is going to end up being Isabella's sex slave, so how does what's happened so far conflict with the end goal? <br/><br/>I mean we can break it down point by point. Why would the characters not blame the priestesses for everything? In their minds they started the conflict, and regardless of who's actually at fault if their goal is to detain one of their party members, due to no reason other than their religious zealotry, they have no reason to be sympathetic. Why would they negotiate when they're not in a position where they have to? And I went out of my way to give a whole slew of reasons why they would want to work together, literally none of which included the threat of rape. <br/><br/>I don't see how anything that's happened so far is beyond what could be reasonably expected from the circumstances so far, and I assumed that was the intention from the start.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The plan was, to my understanding, for her to be captured and corrupted. I think what changed was the fight that broke out (didn't expect that) and the amount of vitriol that's been built up. I agree with Joanie in the sense that that isn't healthy for a group going forward, even if they're not expected to all be pals from the get-go.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">As for the no authority thing that is not at all how I read the situation, but that is an assumption of my own - Odanrav, what actual authority do official members of the martial arm of a major religious order in this world have?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>They wouldn't be seen as the law of the land. It's not the same as attacking a city guardsman and Calemiran knight. Still, definitely not accepted to attack and detain priestesses of a accepted religious order. If the party were arrested for this they would be imprisoned for a long, long time. Wren's order of priestesses are meant to defend their faith primarily. Protect temples, root out heathen worshipers, and defend the innocent. But they're not adjudicators and they don't necessarily have the authority to arrest somebody in the way they were trying to with Isabella without proof that she was some form of threat to the faith, which Seraphina obviously believed was the case or she would not have sent two of her best to go on this task.