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[Vespert]

Oh dear, happy birthday!!! One less year on Earth!!!

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Well THAT'S an interesting way to think of it...

[neogenetica]

Now you see why I like eternal youth. Like my father has said "life slowly kills you"

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 I suppose.

Reminds me of that one saying...

"Life's hard. And then you die."

[neogenetica]

[Celadon's Penultimate]

What a very pessimistic outlook. I tend to lean toward the thought that something better awaits for me after this. But, ya know, that's just IMHO.

[Vespert]

"Getting old is the only way we found to live longer."

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Um...that is true.

Except for the Eternal Youth thing...

[neogenetica]

It's not MY outlook, I have a happier outlook on life.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Never said it was your outlook.

I just said I don't subscribe to it.

[Whd]

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[Celadon's Penultimate]

You don't like McDonalds? That's a shock...

[Whd]

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[Celadon's Penultimate]

Maybe you can't tell. Typically, I'm pretty okay about discerning psychology. Though, it'd have to be in person. Online, you could be anyone.

[Zaleramancer]

I am vastly amused now.

I'm reading this thread on a Dnd forum.

This guy is complaining about the DM for the game he was on.


The guy is playing an Astral Daeva (Read: Chaotic Good Celestial Being). He saw a Succubus (Chaotic Evil Demon) and followed her around until she stole all an old man had, so she could extort his soul or something. He proceeds to tell her to stop. The Succubus flees, so the Daeva grabs his bow and fires at her. She gets poofed by his second arrow and sent back to the Abyss.

Most people would think this is ok. He's a paragon of good who just defeated the embodiment of pure evil.

His DM disagreed, and made his celestial character fall (Go from Chaotic Good --> Chaotic Neutral). The guy was pretty angry, because he doesn't think he really did anything wrong. It's not like he killed some random pick-pocket. Argueably, he should have smited her on sight.


The ensuing argument across the thread is really entertaining to read.

Fiendish bison:
O give me a home where the buffalo roam,
and the deer and the antelope flaaaaay;
Where always is heard a discouraging word,
and the skyyyyyy is fiery all day.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Then in that case, can a Chaotic Good ever attack another being without somehow being less good?

Even for the sake of saving another?

[Zaleramancer]

The general concensus is

"It.. was.. a demon.. You know, the physical manifestation of evil? It's not like it was a goblin that secretly wanted to be good. It was a utterly evil being that wanted to steal a guy's stuff and/or his soul. Smite away!"


I agree with being able to attack. It's not like there are many good demons.

I mean, the number of non-evil ones in the setting is like .0001% of the total population. And that's before they get butchered by the other demons.


Though... there are ways to make even a demon switch alignments. Takes a reallllllly potent priest casting a very costly spell, and takes a year to complete..

[Zaleramancer]

Not to mention, the Succubus isn't dead.

She's just confined to the abyss for a few years. It's actually better than if a mortal managed it.


Mortal "kills" a demon, they get banished to the abyss for a hundred years.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Either way:

Evil seductive demoness with sticky fingers= BAD (normal bad ALONG with the naughty kinda bad )

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Then what was his problem again?