<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=345578.msg16299363#msg16299363">Quote from: Muse on 02-10-2022, 08:33:00</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">  Oh, my God, Zaer!  He made her an amputee?  That's sick!  *Kicks Buga's body*  <br/><br/>  You do a <em>very good job</em> of making us hate the enemy! <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I assume you did not read the detailed graphic mutilation part, but yes, the entire intent was to make everyone really hate Buga and display the full ugliness of feral monsters. At least reason why for centuries people generally hated monsters and had no problems doing genocides or enslaving them. Which Azure City is trying to change. Also, the reason why Azure Knights had given a generous bounty for Buga as well as he kept his campaign going and gave monster races a bad rep. Atlantica however still hates monsters and monster races as usual default (both belief/propaganda as well). So Josephine sort of had a mix of cultural shock but also affirmed that monster races are 'bad people' but Azure City tries to define there is a difference between civil and feral monster races. Most monster race/clans have agreed go civil as by the point Azure City became a concept many clans were on verge of extinction and had suffered in the crossfire between Free Nations and Atlantica for several decades. Albeit some monster races have growing pains as well as part of the agreement for any clan to join was to release any 'captives' they had. Some clans captives decided to stay willingly as 'breeding studs' while others everyone left and left clan with no choice than use traditional courting.<br/><br/>Or as brothel districts grew they expanded breeding to brothels (give discounts to men who willingly breed without protection involved and forsake parent's rights to children if any born). With species, only men (like goblinoids) have a harder time courting or convincing women to bear children with them. There are mongrelfolks who semblance female goblins but they are mongrelfolks and thus infertile (meaning they cannot bear children). So there are specific social/political dynamics in the region as a whole.<br/><br/>Anyways yes, the quarterstaff is +1 weapon (which can be big deal as some monsters are immune to dmg from non-magical weapons or resistance) and it turning into a python can be useful so long you watch out the python does not die.<br/><br/>Also yes, there are magics that can help restore the adventurer quicker but as a reminder, access to even raise dead spells can be pretty hard to find (same tier as greater restoration). Adventurers of gold or platinum rank aren't exactly common, more uncommon, and finding a cleric of such power asks to go Guild registry to see if is there such adventurer and then contact and hire them to do the casting (not to mention the time it takes them to travel as they may not necessarily reside in Azure City). In local churches, there can be rare cases of real clerics but anyone who is able to cast even 3th level spells is exceedingly rare (less so in Atlantica but in Free Nations, most folk's limit caps are fairly low compared to Atlantica).