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[RAM]

If we had thought ahead then we could have bought a scroll or two of cloudkill... As it is, if we can find some sort of suply group, we could try to smuggle some of our special barrels into the supplies, although we would need to get an exploding runes spell...

[Heron TSG]

Glyph of Warding could be keyed to the bandits and cast upon each barrel. If I use the 'Glyph of Blasting' effect, I could make it so that when a bandit walks by, the barrel explodes.

[Shoruke]

I sort of changed it back when we met the Archon. I just reread the Book of Exalted Deeds so I could make it convincing. Turns out that being good involves very little killing and a lot of charity. Who knew?

Depends how you do it. Cerrad is willing to kill... but only if he can justify it. Killing merchants who were threatened goes against his idea of good, but if it's the only (and I do mean only) way to kill a thousand unscrupulous bandits, then he's going to kill some merchants. A dozen or so murders is worth committing to prevent the thousands of murders and thefts that the bandits would commit over their lives.

If we had thought ahead then we could have bought a scroll or two of cloudkill... As it is, if we can find some sort of suply group, we could try to smuggle some of our special barrels into the supplies, although we would need to get an exploding runes spell...

Hmm... sneak onto the supply wagons, and switch out some of the supply barrels with our powder kegs, with a note on top: "Hi." *KABEWM!* Of course, this would only be ethical if we can ascertain that the wagon driver is one of the bandits.

[Heron TSG]

Game in 4 hours, right?

[Lord Shonus]

No, 28.

[Robocorn]

We'll definitely be able to justify killing most of the bandits when they reveal that they refuse to cooperate and attack us, because we already know that they're doing evil. Well more specifically, they're doing unlawful things like stealing and murder, so I guess they must have strong bonds of fraternity amongst them to justify their alignment being neiutral and not evil.

Our course of action depends on the scale of the bandit organization. If there are only a few dozen, we could probably take them out personally and tie the leaders up and bring them to court for murder and robbery. If there are several hundred, we may have to smoke them out and destroy their organization through the leadership and their base, or at the very most extreme, explode them.

Since they're not evil (apparently) it would be preferable to reform them than to slaughter them outright, It may however be permissible if they continue to be uncooperative and malicious.

EDIT: I think Naren might have Leadership it might be possible to bring a few reformed bandits along with us as cohorts who earn pittance compared to us regular members.

[Heron TSG]

No, 28.

Are Tuesday games going to be a common occurrence? Because I can't make Tuesday games starting the week after next.

[Lord Shonus]

Just this week.

[Lucus Casius]

If they're not technically evil, and are attacking merchants...

My god, they're Communist revolutionaries...

[Heron TSG]

Am I correct in assuming sessions are Mondays and Wednesdays, usually? I haven't found a scheduling post yet.

[Shoruke]

Yes, we need a scheduling post sometime.

Also, it might be that the bandits commit evil deeds (i.e. armed robbery) on a regular basis but are considered neutral because it is literally the only way they can make a living. Farming is hard if you don't know what you're doing, and if an extreme lawful government finds out you were a bandit in the past and haven't served your jail time yet, kiss any chance you have at a legitimate job goodbye. Of course, this doesn't justify large-scale murder or theft, so one way or another, we are going to bust their schist up.

[Robocorn]

Evil or not, it is abundantly clear that they're not even attempting to obey the law, so my axiomatic sword should do +2d6 damage to them, I'll probably have to avoid dealing the finishing blows with it though because it's lethal. (Is magic lethal?) Part of me wants to bring the bandits in to prison to show them that crime doesn't pay. But another part of me is reminded that we're here to help topple the empire.

Man, am I going to enjoy rationalizing that for my alignment. (It occurs to me that I'm imposing upon myself the same moral restrictions that got paladins kicked out of the game.

Even though we've met nobody with any redeemable qualities (save the paladine's fist guy) in [Whatever the name of this city is] should we still find a temple and donate to it? Even if you factor out our magical items and mission expenses, we are still brain-explodingly wealthy.

[Heron TSG]

I don't really care about their ethics, just their morals.

[Robocorn]

They're killing people without provocation. That's evil. There's Eafoth's motivation.

What do you think about making a donation to a temple? Pelor's pretty popular according to the players guide, but as far as I know all of the citizens of Markavia could be thralls of juiblex and we couldn't tell the difference

[Lucus Casius]

Aren't we using the Dragonlance gods?  Or is it both?  Or just the original?  I dunno, Paladine's Fist and... was it Shadow of Takhasis?... kinda threw me off.