"Okay, okay, so. We've got this thing. Several, y'know, well, many mile region. Pretty big place. Screwed up beyond pretty much all recognition, massively in flux, we're pretty sure the previous inhabitants of the area tore a hole in reality and just kinda' got buggered by it. Hole seems to still be there, shit crawling out of it, y'know, whatevs. Mostly stays in the same area, except those times it doesn't and kiiiinda' buries villages in mobile eldritch abomination wonderland. Occasionally sends shit roaming out of that can be roughly described as 'Horror from beyond the edge of existence.' Blights any and all land, water, food, etc., that falls under its influence. Crazy shit, yeah?
Anyway, yeah. Other bigwigs back home have been talking about cutting all funding for monitoring and keeping an eye on this pretty much completely unpredictable fluctuating hellscape. Civil war and everything, they wonder whether paying attention to what's basically Azathoth's dick flopping across the south-west chunk of the continent is really worth the dosh. You think that's a good idea? Give me your honest opinion, here."
"..."
Words fail me.
Spiderweb, Avadon 2, I get that you're trying to show something along the lines of political incompetence or conflicting interests or whatever, but holy shit, these fuckers have a literal hole in reality with shit crawling out of it and you're plot-lobotomizing them into thinking leaving that alone is even the most remote of desirable actions. And not even maybe scaling things back, doing the monitoring from a safer area until the rebellion is dealt with, just straight up packing up and buggering everything off and I guess just shoving dildos made of raw cocaine in their ears so they don't hear it when the screaming world-breakers from outside existence come to jam themselves up everything's arse.
I've been fairly well enjoying this so far, but good gods. What the hell. I think I just lost brain cells reading this initial quest hook. "Look around, talk to people, form an opinion as to if it's a good idea to keep an eye on this stuff?" "Look the goddamn hell outside you blathering idiot! My opinion is currently sodomizing your guards with a lava streamer, because that's what kind of shit happens out here and this shit leaves its borders This is not a goddamn question! There's no option two!"
Unfortunately not a conversation option. It should be.