Editing Midnight RPG - Chapter 16.28 (section)

== Andrew / Durgaz ==

'''Andrew:''' I completely agree, which is why I brought up the issue in a private Durgaz-Kyuad bluebooking session to work out how the ''characters'' would deal with it, as opposed to putting it out in the whole-group forum and running the risk of making Adam feel uncomfortable. I don't want to stand in the way of Adam's playing his character the way he wants, and I'll agree that complications make for interesting story elements, but it's equally important that we have legitimate justifications for why ''our'' characters put up with his recklessness, other than "because he's a PC." 

In any case, I'm happy with what you're suggesting. IC, it's the sort of thing that would make sense to Durgaz, and OOC, it provides for some interesting new role-playing possibilities. 

'''Durgaz:''' "You are not bound to reveal anything that you do not wish to. I may not understand your craft, but I am reasonably satisfied that you are intelligent enough to be careful with it. And you are right: if I did have reason to believe you were endangering us in some way, I would probably know by now.

"If you are willing, though, I am curious. I have seen and destroyed many Fell, and I have heard the tales. The ferocity of some warriors, they said, was so great that even after death, the blood in their veins continued to churn with such hate and battle-rage that the departed spirit might smell it, and be drawn back to fight once more among the living. So we drank the blood and ate the flesh of the fallen, so that their strength would flow through ''our'' veins, and their vengeance delivered by ''our'' vardatches, instead. And their heads were set on pikes, so that any spirit who found its way back could look upon its own dead face and know that no body was left for it to dwell in."

"But that is a story, I think. Most of the Fell I have seen, even before we came upon this place, were not warriors, and certainly not the greatest of their kind. Most of them were pathetic, sniveling creatures, crawling and clawing like beggars ... creatures to be crushed like vermin, or safely destroyed from afar like diseased wolves. And in this place we have seen Fell deliberately created by the score through alchemy and magic, certainly not born from any inner fire or strength of spirit."

"So perhaps I should not be surprised to hear that the Fell can be cured, or tamed, or whatever your intentions are. Is this something you have known, or did you just discover it in the Vile's laboratory? And if you did find this information in the laboratory, can it really be trusted?"