Re: what is it about angels?

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Will in New Haven <bill.reich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Jan 30, 4:59 pm, mkkuh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Mary K. 
>Kuhner) wrote:

>Having a mutual enemy is a powerful incentive. If, instead of using 
>the label "Evil," we say that she is "a survivor, possibly the only 
>one,  of a bandit gang that the PCs defeated and dispersed in a 
>previous episode." 

Interestingly enough, that person exists in the campaign too.  She's
now heading Fritz' spy network in Cauldron.  But the issues raised were
quite different--it was easy enough to think she was just going along
with her bad crowd, whereas Grehalia clearly wasn't.

All past actions aside (and Grehalia's past is pretty dark) she's a 
ranking priestess of something notoriously awful.  A lot of real-world
Christians would, I think, have a lot of trouble working with a
real-world Satanist.  

>> Lots of things going on inside his head there.  He's been juggling
>> plates trying to save Grehalia's life (from the other PCs, mainly!)
>> for over a week now.  It's intense.

>This is easy also without alignments. 

I am not trying to argue that alignments are necessary or
even desirable.  I'm just delighted in how this worked out for us.

I do think the PCs would have had a big problem with their captive
High Priestess of Vecna, alignment or no alignment.  And the conflict
with the angel follows from that.

>Fritz' defiance of the angel reminds me more than a little of Huck 
>Finn when he was sure he would go to Hell if he helped Nigger Jim, but 
>he helped nonetheless. If an angel out of a cloud had told him not to, 
>Huck would still had done the right thing. The most heroic moment in 
>American literature, in my opinion.

Thanks!  I like that image a lot.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]