To quote one of my favorite leaders, "I will say this slowly and in your own tongue so that you will understand."  :D<br/><br/>The point I keep trying to make is that you<em>weren't</em>playing a diplomatic leader character.  You<em>rolled</em>like a diplomatic leader character.  But your speech built up all kinds of energy in your audience, then left them nowhere to go.  It was like a political rally, where people cheer and then go swear at traffic.  You wanted it to be like a battlefield speech, like in Henry V or something.  But he told his troops what to do.  He laid out ideas for the future.  And even he was addressing a group of soldiers who already knew how to work together and knew their dispositions.<br/><br/>We're worse than that.  Most of us have never seen each other before.  I know at least one character has no military training.  We're all Cadets (or some might be Lieutenants, not sure about that).  The point is that you were talking to a group of people who've just been<em>ripped out of their dimension and tortured</em>, and you gave what was essentially a feel-good, pull together lads speech.  I thought most of the reactions you got were pretty generous, considering the circumstances (borderline outright warfare).