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In Which Korvosans Rally & The Dead Envy The Living
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I don't know myself to have ever 'pregretted' something I went on to do.

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Ever?! You must not have dumped Wisdom hard enough, sir.

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Out of purely academic interest, is Intelligence your only stat with a positive modifier?

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I think Law versus Chaos is about whether you believe that government is a good thing.

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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

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No, Law vs. Chaos is about whether people can tell what you do from what you wear. And the more they can tell what you do from what you wear, the more Lawful you are.

If you're in uniform, you're definitely Lawful.

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What about clowns.

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Do clowns wear uniforms?

No?

I didn't think so.

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I think Law is about honesty. Everything else is downstream from that.

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Don't they call Geryon the Source of Lies?

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Okay, maybe you can lie a little, but I think Law is about keeping your sworn oath.

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Imagine a man who promises a friend to always stand by them, and not betray them to the Infernal authorities, and who means this promise. But he breaks it, five years later, halfway because he wants to curry favor with Authority and halfway just because he can't stand living out-of-sync with the people around him. 

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I think that'd be a Chaotic act.

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I'm not the alignment czar, but in a home game I wouldn't say that it moves you away from LE to sell out a friend or family member to the LE authorities because you can't stand being unconventional.

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The problem is that the nine alignments are buckets of unlike things which don't actually cluster. 

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It's been established in-thread that I have a negative Strength and Dexterity modifier (also, rereading that tag, my Str should be slightly lower - nandwich forgot age penalties - although it didn't wind up making a difference in the event nandwich is a genius who should never be doubted, and I, Orianna Delmore, foolishly forgot that I had age resistance), and then of course we've established in this conversation that I dumped Wisdom and Charisma.

But!

My Con mod has never come up in this story. For all we know, it could be +4 or higher.

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Is it?

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What I'm saying is that it could be.

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Is your Constitution, after accounting for the magic belt about your wizard waist, greater than ten.

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Every day, you torment me with these impossible riddles.

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You could be kinder to your bound shadows, and break the cycle of generational trauma.

I'm putting together a list of questions for the commune, so let me know if you think of anything.

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No, actually, my Wisdom is higher than I worried it might be. 

I don't hate life enough to make eighth. Quite the opposite, really. There are too many books I haven't read.

I hope you successfully make ninth-circle and/or give up the ghost - whichever would better please you - but I have a phylactery to craft.

Delmore out.

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I don't want to die.

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You have a funny way of showing it, sir.

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And, besides, at our level, against the threats we're up against, mere death is the least of our concerns.

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