Thread: (Seeds of Evil) B. 1-2 Interludes: Four Days In Honeytown

Baltana She listened attentively as the man spoke, she had a memory of him instructing others to kill the werewolf rather than capture it - but she ignored it as in the heat of moment she might have misunderstood. The nature of the creature was interesting and made more sense to her than an ogre finding a spell book or similiar I think that might get to the core of the issue, the Oni she choose to use tha mans word for it should it be treated as merely an Oni and interchangeable with all other Oni's are should we assume that it is a freewilled creature and treat it as such, its behaviour seems to indicate it capable of decision making and therefore the capacity to grow and change as a being . What we know from its actions last night seem not to raise to execution level - it was working as a guard, it lined its pockets with riches, and it coursed women into physical activity - but it did not seem to harm anyone, and it did not seem to mind control us or the woman it was with. Is it possible that it merely settled here and was making a life for itself as a guard without really doing any great harm or seeking to do great harm? she queried. Considering for a second if we treat it as an individual I don't see anything in its actions that would have caused me to kill a downed human or elf last night and treating it as worse simple because it is more powerful than the average human or elf seems like it would than lead to an arguement that killing any potentially powerful entity would be justified she thought about how to phrase her next line of thought. To be inelegant consider the two of us, at present you seem to have - correctly - assumed that I am a changeling, or to be blunt the larval form of a hag, and you seem to - correctly - regard me as struggling against that fate. But you don't actually know that, were I to have already made that transition than I would be a shapeshifting creature with any number of abilities based on type - green in the case of my mother. So a potentially invisible, untrackable, shapeshifting being - likely as hard to contain as the Oni. This raises the question of should all changelings be killed to prevent future harm - or at least treated as worse than humans or elves - but also the more overaching question of should all hags be killed based on them being hags, if some hag exists in isolation and doesn't bother people should she be killed for representing a threat and assumed to be evil, what if instead of isolation she pretends to be a local wise woman or merchant but seems to effectively avoid most harmful activity these were questions she thought on a bit and went back and forth on her answers too does free will matter, and should an evil creature who engages in lesser forms of evil be killed with less restraint than an human who engages in the same . In answer to your question on the Oni - my thoughts would be to keep it down until someone in the city arrived to deal with it, for all I knew it could have been purposefully employed in the job it was in - and had some activity overlooked - as a deterrent to werewolf, or other, attacks. I am dubious as to if those guards will be able to handle an attack by a pack of werewolves without it present to control minds, provide strenght of arm etc, and if one pack starts infecting people on the wrong day than this town could possible fall in a night .