Perhaps I may throw my OOC 2 cents in the mix by offering a solution I had from another game.
On my previous game I originally started out playing a ranger (I assure you very different than any ranger you have ever imagined before) named Maltoran, which translates to \"the golden-hearted.\" I was your typical good guy running around saving people and I managed somehow to martyr myself every single day helping to save someone or something from the clutches of the evil pirates of the East or the powers of the North. Very soon after I started this my city took notice, and I was asked to attend a school of magic to learn a different fighting style. Forsaking the ways of the forest for the good of my friends (my brother and sister rangers were dismayed but saw the good in what I was about to do) I took up the profession of Mage in one of the oldest guilds on the continent. Mages, in this game, are very stationary fighters until the very highest of levels. They tend to set up magical traps and area effect spells all around them and fight defensively from one or two locations with few exits. I usually betrayed this and set up in the middle of our city. It lacked strategy (because of multiple exits) but was of great benefit to the city. It wasn\'t but two or three weeks later that I became disheartened at how my city was now treating me. My magic became a fortress of retreat for those weary fighters to rest until they were attacked again. At that point all would scatter to safety except myself, trapped in my own defenses, unable to flee for fear of being even more defenseless. I died this way very often. One day this finally became too much to tolerate and I spoke with the city elders. I told them I needed a break and would travel to the neutral city of Parrius, where the pirates lived. Parrius had little government and didn\'t interfere in citizens\' affairs. It was a great place to go for a vacation out of the crossfire. Not only did all of the people I talked to agree, some of them even thought it was a good idea and urged me toward it. No more than two days later I received by post insults, curses, and even death threats from former good friends and allies. Of course I was hurt, but here\'s my point.
Because of this turning point in my character\'s life, he \"darkened.\" In character, \"Ranger Maltoran, Defender of the Greenwood\" became \"Dark Master Maltoran, Nocturnal Predator.\" He lived up to the second name just as much as the first. But the role-playing was just never the same. No matter how much I tried to keep him in character, the concept of Maltoran (the golden-hearted) had been destroyed. I served in every city and five different professions before I finally just quit the game. My point is that an argument like this (glares at Seperot and Draklar), no matter how in-character, may ultimately result in a lack of role-playing on one or both sides. Please resolve your differences other than on these forums and simply leave it at this:
Draklar feels justified, Seperot (and others) feel betrayed. That\'s enough to fight over in CB and that\'s all it needs to be.
