Hey all. I've been playing pathfinder for some time now, and I've been trying to make the change from 'game playing' to actually roleplaying my characters. Which has led to a problem, amazingly enough.
See, in my current campaign, my character is a Lawful Neutral Rogue who is both a coward and a Devil whorshipper. He's not into evil acts or anything, but revels in the whole lust and greed kind of sinning. He picked up a follower who is a sorcerer on the path to being a Diabolist, who summons minions to help the rest of the party in combat (since the rogue = coward, and rarely hits with his bow due to being more face and skill oriented). Current party opinion is that he is creepy and they may not exactly trust him or his friend, but he's done nothing but help them so they are cool with him for now.
The city we are in right now (homemade city, in the mountains to the north... not that that is relevant) is basically the plot nexus of the campaign. Everyone and everything is in the city, to try and minimalise the world tromping we have done in the past (was kinda boring and slow, at least given how we are as players). It is very much a holy city, run by a paladin, council of clerics being the senate basically etc etc, very theocratical and LG all the way. What has happened is the sorcerer made the mistake of revealing his connections infront of said council, resulting in the banishment of his summons and his summary exectuion, leaving the rogue to hold the blame. They have given him the choice to stop worshipping evil gods or be killed. They made it clear the only reason they gave him the chance to clean up his act is the fact that he had been helping the city quite a bit.
So here is the issue: As a player, I know that this is probably a plot hook, or a little quest I should have going on throughout the campaign. But as a character who a) is a coward, b) doesn't want to tick off a whole heap of experienced fighters and c) actually likes being a devil follower, the correct solution is just to pack up and leave before they try to hunt him down, removing a character from the campaign I enjoy playing and the party enjoys so they can dump cha/int, and what I am concerned will be considered a 'rage quit' by my fellow players.
So, that's the situation. What do I do? I want to RP truely to my character, but I want to keep playing without seeming like the guy who changes things whenever the situation isn't what he likes.
