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JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#1: Jan 10th 2011 at 2:43:00 PM

Hello, I know this is partially to do with a "facebook" game, but I am really struggling with a moral quandry here.

The quandry is that in Echo Bazaar I have been working for some time as the spy of someone called "The cheesemonger" an important player of the "game" of espionage who has given me various mission of intrigue to try and tip the balance in her own favour.

I have recently found out that the majority of her family has been killed and she is out for revenge (not just on the people who killed them) but the entirety of the game. The only member of her family still alive is her daughter, catherine who seems to be interested if not exactly "keen" in taking over the family business. She wants the people killed permanently with no chance to return from the death that is so often temporary in Echo Bazaar

I have therefore a few choices:

  • Give up, this would involve me losing my house because she would track me down and kill me otherwise
  • Enact the plan and kill a lot of people in order for her to get her revenge (And whose to say I would not be next? And how could I live with that much blood on my hands)
  • Replace her with her daughter (there is no indication if the daughter would want that, or wether or not she would despise me for it)
  • Blow up her house, the cost of this is negligable but it involves killing both her and her daughter.
  • Betray her, others would pay VERY highly for this sort of information.

At the moment I am torn between "daughter" and "enact the plan".

LuckyRevenant ALMSIVI from The Flood Since: Jan, 2001
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#2: Jan 10th 2011 at 3:25:26 PM

What are the outcomes of betraying her? I understand that others would pay highly for it, but aside from monetary value, what would you get?

"I can't imagine what Hell will have in store, but I know when I'm there, I won't wander anymore."
JosefBugman Since: Nov, 2009
#3: Jan 10th 2011 at 3:31:08 PM

I don't know for any of them, the bits in brackets are just my own feelings, there are NO indicators of how this will turn out other than the brief descriptions of the options which run:

  • You want no part of this madness. Of course, Alice (name of the Cheesemonger) knows where you live and now you know too much. You will have to give up your current lodgings. [WARNING: doing this will lose your current lodgings.]
  • Can the Great Game be tilted on its axis? Can you live with hands that red? Will you survive? You can only hope.
  • The Great Game needs to be played. Alice cannot change that. Catherine seems competent. She will make a fine Cheesemonger in her own right.
  • Enough. Enough. The Cheesemonger's career ends here. Dynamite is expensive, but you know where she lives. You can get her daughter too. The whole business will end. (unlocked with Rostygold 500 - you have 1765)
  • You don't owe Alice anything, and if you do? That's her problem. You could do very well by betraying such a secret to the right people. Very well indeed.

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