Thank you for your input Kalindlara. It's helped me clear my mind a little bit, and make some decisions for myself. :)
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Can you tell us more about his build? Is he a rogue? A ranger? A slayer? Does he focus on Dexterity or Strength?
The PC is a Rogue with a focus on Dex, but he did spend some ability points on Wis (25-point stat buy). My guess is he'll go for a Headband of Wisdom and/or Iron Will to help him gain near-permanent dominance over his weapon later on.
In the interim; considering that the items' Ego doesn't exceed 20, how would you play that item? Is it complacent to just kill unjust rulers and do what he wants? Do you have any interesting ideas or concepts for that weapon that you enjoyed playing out, or never got a chance to use?
Considering that the weapon is designed for the Red Mantis, I imagine any wrenches I try to throw into his plans to control it will be met with criticism unless it's justified. :(
Maybe the weapon is a feminist? :D
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Can you give a rough overview of the rest of the party? Races/classes/alignments/etc.
There's 1 player playing 2 classes to round out the party. The first is a big dumb Orc Warrior (CN) who likes to play "Bad Cop". His other character is an Aasimar Cleric (NG) that plays "Good Cop" and takes care of the Orc in a motherly fashion.
The other player is playing the 1st Magus (Human) (LN, I think) of our gaming group ever, so it's kind of exciting to finally see one in action.
As you would expect, the Orc is putting out some big numbers early on (Two-Handed Fighter), and the Magus can do some serious damage when he wants to.
I imagine the Rogue will shift to LE when he's ready to take his prestige classes in Red Mantis, if he isn't Evil already.
Our gaming groups' interpretation of alignment is that Good and Evil can co-exist, but work is involved to ensure that helpless innocents aren't being murdered before "Good Cops'" eyes. ;)
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Have any of them showed any interest in specific castaways yet?
As I said, we only just started playing, so we're up to night 2 right now, with a major impending rain storm about to hit their campsite. I feel this is going to be the perfect time for RPing, with tempers ready to flare, and the castaways to find that some of them really don't like each other.
They've tried flirting with Aerys (obviously didn't go over so well).
They've already set Jask free, so he's obviously happy with them.
They've intimidated Gelik for information about Smugglers' Shiv (No one has ranks in Survival, heh).
They are intrigued by Ishirou, but haven't conversed with him very much as of yet.
And they are about to embark on finding a baby Dimorphodon for Sasha on our next gaming session this Saturday.
Overall, here's my predictions for the PCs attitudes towards the 5 factions:
Pirates - A possible ally. No one's gung-ho about it just yet, but that could change.
Pathfinders - While they're aware of them, when they questioned Gelik about his story, they didn't seem to care much about helping him out. They seemed to prefer intimidating him instead.
Aspis Consortium - When Ishirou briefly mentioned that he worked for them, the Aasimar/Orc PC said "Jesus Christ". Heh.
Sargava - Little to no interest there.
Red Mantis - Considering the topic of this discussion, I predict this is the most likely group the PCs will ally with, assuming that there's no divide within the party.