Momonga: It is regarding the mission you have undertaken.
..Before you ask, no. It is not about the ethics of undertaking such a task. You've already given oaths to seeing it through, so there is no questioning it. I am worried about something more important, from my perspective.
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Momonga: It was a thought that had occurred to me a few days, but only seemed to fully spring to mind just today. When Suzu had called in a favor for us, we had all agreed to travel to her father's place to accept this job. Mercenaries we may be, but we still act under his implicit authority.
As we speak, we are acting in Suzu's family's name to not only interfere with a crucial element of this world's function...but also to assassinate the lord he has sworn loyalty.
edited 5th Dec '17 7:47:56 PM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Momonga: Precisely.
And if we perform this job precisely as instructed, there are two scenarios I can surmise immediately due to some degree of experience and literacy.
The first is that the mage's daughter, once she inherits the household through her chosen puppet, will use the knowledge of what has conspired to force Suzu and her family to continue to do wetwork for her, lest the knowledge of what Suzu's father has permitted become public knowledge and he be shamed to the point of potentially losing everything.
And such a girl would never let information such as this go unused. A family member who so readily offers to underlings a chance to kill a member of her family for gain has no boundaries as a bushi for what is permissible. At all.
edited 5th Dec '17 7:54:48 PM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Momonga: Yes, and no. The second would be a more immediate disavowal and denouncement by the mage's daughter for an obvious act of betrayal on the part of Suzu and her family, for conspiring against his lord. Which would likely lead to stripping of properties, titles, family heirs and possibly an order of seppuku if he hoped to regain his honor.
It would all be to tie up loose ends, of course. The allies of this "old bastard" would be pacified with an obvious scapegoat, and enemy clans would have a convenient rogue element to blame the desecration of their sacred sun-providing machine.
And no one would believe the words of obvious outsiders who are willing to do such dishonorable and near heretical actions such as cutting down a magic wielder. Or a shamed samurai who would kill his own lord for personal gain. Or for the daughters who would obviously be lying to protect his honor.
edited 5th Dec '17 8:00:48 PM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Momonga: I am not saying any of this to alarm you, Six. Or dissuade you of anything.
But while I am more than willing to give aid to you all in undergoing your stated mission, I could not in good conscience let you continue this without understanding how much is at stake.
edited 5th Dec '17 8:23:42 PM by Raidouthe21st
We Are Our Avatars Forever (Now on Discord by invitation, PM)Six: Thank you for that.
Just...
-Six sighs, looking out towards the door-
Yeah, sure. I want to kill him. I don't like how he casually mistreats more than half the people we have and assumes they're no better than genitals with humans stuck on the end, and deep sixing his bigoted ass is fitting payback for working directly to benefit him, especially when the alternative is dying. But I can at least understand, in principle, having to do something heinous for heinous people because you've got no other choices.
-Six looks back to Momonga. You can't see his face, but it is clear he is troubled-
You're smart, Momonga. I don't need to tell you that a lot of people out there... they really want him dead. They've been burning the thought of killing him as fuel. Bullet through his face, blade cleaving him in half, spell incinerating him, doesn't matter how. There's a few people here who, even after knowing that, still wanted to abandon the job. The thought of poetic justice is the only thing that keeps them moving.
I don't know how they'll take this news. But I can't imagine it'll go over well.
edited 5th Dec '17 8:29:11 PM by SpartyMcFly
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."Lisa: I've worked for some bad people in the past. Back home, mercenaries are largely people who steal corporate secrets, deal out vigilante justice, and intimidate people with the threat of violence to get what their employers want. They're generally not nice people, but it pays a lot, and that's all I really thought about at the time.
This guy we're working for, I hate him so much... I don't think I need to explain why.
But at the same time, I feel guilty for the kind of life I've lived. I feel like I should've just become a teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, anything other than what I've been doing. It'd be respectable, and it wouldn't give me this bad feeling inside. I feel like the situation I'm in now, I'm in partly because I never said "no" to this sort of dishonorable lifestyle I've been living. Or maybe this is what being a mercenary really is, and it just took one particularly nasty person to show us that.
I guess what I'm asking is... why am I here? I'm not sure why I should keep doing this. I know I'm not doing the right thing. I know I can't really help these people in any meaningful way. How could I? I feel like I'm talking to aliens when I hear most of the natives here because of how different our values are. It's horrible, and I hate it...
edited 5th Dec '17 8:28:01 PM by HilarityEnsues

Bruce: -Sets Momonga down and closes the door- Okay, spill it.