Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-12599067-20141127202735/@comment-11457306-20150108012934

(Billy, I'm honestly sorry about your toe.  I hope it feels better.

People don't change that drastically. Changing lifestyle is easy, but we're not talking about lifestyle. The speech that Clarent gave indicated he had changed his entire belief system. He acknowledged that he had done wrong and had caused people much pain and he was trying to make up for it. He insulted Conall, saying that he was bad because he killed people for money. Yet Clarent, as a necromancer in the Order of the Wyrm, a lieutenant of THE Necromancer, killed people for power and knowledge. Which is worse? Neither. The motivation is different, but the end result is the same. Each got something in return for their dark deeds.

If Clarent had changed his belief system--and by his speech he indicated that he had, he would not have done what he did to Conall. He would have allowed himself to be killed because he figured he deserved it. It would make up for all of the deaths he caused, all the people he made suffer. OR, he would have helped.

He was upset because we abused his sellsword, but that was your fault, not ours. We tried being nice and you did not let it work.

Clarent did what he did because you were pissed off at me for what I made my characters do. Well, we tried everything. Persuasion. Bribes. Intimidation. Force. There was nothing left but to try to kill him so he would not be a threat. Why did you make it so hard? Not just hard--impossible! Why would you craft such a character to be the liason to help us find Rowan and make it so difficult we were all frustrated? No one else will say anything--but I will. Your RP's used to pop pretty good, but you've gotten too convoluted, too complex. Such writing should be reserved for a book or for fan fiction. That is not the kind of writing you do in an RP.)