Shattered Kingdoms

I agree, Reinald is a lightie in the data file only. In game, he's no lightie. I wasn't there for the gank yesterday but I was around to watch some of the RP roll out. That was pure, unadulterated grey aura RP out of Reinald. And if that's an accurate sampling of Reinald's RP, he should have eaten a few curses by now.

Factions do not actually have alignments because they are not people (and no, they are not incorporated). Tribunals should not care about good or evil - they are all about the law. Most cabals do have a moral code implied in their charter, and yet those organizations will not be held to alignment standards. Hence there is at least the POSSIBILITY of diplomacy in anyway they wish and that's why the options are there.

However, leaders of organizations do have alignments and I expect them to follow those alignments. For example, it's almost 100% guaranteed that every leader of the Hammer is going to be a light-aura and that every leader of Midnight is a dark-aura, and so therefore you aren't going to find the Hammer allying with Midnight. But in the 0.1% chance that both leaders are actually selfish, well, maybe they might find themselves allied for about an hour. By then, someone in Midnight should have accidentally misplaced their dagger in a Hammer member's spleen.

Note: I'm not trying to address all your questions, only the ones that I quoted above.

This is really clear, great guidance. I wish someone would take it on themselves to compile all of Dulrik's posts on alignment as a sort of guide to the playerbase in a thread that won't get lost to time. SK has a complicated alignment system that's sometimes very difficult for those of us who come from the classic fantasy g/n/e l/n/c environments to grasp.

Thanks for the response, D. One more question. Is it out of alignment for a light aura to parole, not pardon, but parole, a diabolic who defends themselves from an attack? What's your input on it? Or simply put are lighties never, ever to aid a darkie under any circumstance?

Yes, kin, by all means, strip all background and context from your question. There should be none of that information available in order to make an informed decision.

You get down twinkles for your question.

Even if I posted logs of exactly what happened, event by event, it won't make any difference. You all dismiss it as whining and I'm not entitled to anything because i rolled a diabolic. Every event would be spun out of context and blamed on them being diabolic and thus should be instantly banished / non pardonable in any context, so it doesn't really matter. If you want I can give the exact events of Mephis' life since from when he was created. This wasn't the first time he was jailed in self defense. It also happened with Faron when they charmed Kitani and that was before Mephis even attacked anyone at all.

Actually, Kaim really, really liked Reinald. There was one big argument in the beginning, and then Kaim started to talk to him on the side so that the Fist would help Reinald rebuild alliances and act as mediator. :\



I will answer your question for you. If you killed another character, you should be outlawed. Paroling you for murder -- especially considering that your character has committed crimes in the city before -- is an awful decision for anyone to make, and it is a particularly awful one for a lightie leader to make.

Don't confuse the issues with facts!

Actually, you can attest to this more than anyone. Kaim often CONSTANTLY harped on to Tari about how he was working things out with Reinald, and how things would definitely get better. OOCly I just think the character is played improperly, and no one was around with the patience and interest in really giving him the push in the right direction. It came to a head when I watched the RP yesterday and decided enough was enough.

Ironically I also accidentally gave Reinald an enlight yesterday when I was handing out enlights for the people present for the RP. This was entirely accidental. I was tired, leave me alone.

I can and would attest to it. Vehemently, in fact. Kaim and Tari really didn't see eye to eye on the matter, but she was willing to have faith in Kaim's ability to sort it out and was waiting to see the results. Of course, a weaksauce rule got in the way of that resolution, making this whole stupid situation drag on and get dumped in someone else's lap.

The statement of mine you quoted was meant in an ironic tone. I'll use my irony tags next time to make that more clear.