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Our efforts to drive a wedge between the Aspis Consortium and the Cult of Lissala is, primarily through our efforts, finding success. By Goram's Swampy Armpit, I'd hate to contemplate what catastrophe would befall Varisia and the entirety of the Inner Sea if they found common cause.

Can the player simply not do this particular mission and write something into his character's story where he "has it out" with his faction leader? Sure. Why not? Well, because he won't get that all important point of Fame...

.. Which is part of my issue with Torch recently. Not that I mind lying or even being asked to steal the occasional document or bauble. I'm just not good at it. Makes me wonder sometimes why he gives me those missions.

Being farmed out to Cheliax is pushing my boundaries of honor and morals, loose as they may be. I've argued the matter with Torch, who as expected gave me a line about "greater good" and "big picture".

Nevertheless, being unable and/or unwilling to follow the blacker-than-grey objectives when working in proxy for Cheliax, still won't advance Torch's or the Shadow Lodge's goals, and my price for it is less Fame and influence within my faction and within the Society.

So be it. I can still live with myself. And I honestly believe that the Shadow Lodge plays a critical role within the Society. The Grand Lodge may not be corrupt, but it is very corruptible, and it's us, Pathfinders who can prevent the Decemvirate from abusing the power we give them. Without us, their designs cannot see completion.