Chaotic Good, Emphasis on Chaotic
Context: Running a campaign in which the players are fighting against corruption in a large city, basically god against god, requiring that the characters be good but work outside of the law, as the law is owned by the nobility. One character is a gunslinger, another is a ninja. The ninja is the focus on this one. His alignment is CG.
Boy (named Matthias) is angry because his father was wrongfully executed, targeting random guards in a fit of rage. The gunslinger intervenes and convinces the guards to let him go. Still angry, Matthias then reflexively fires a Magic Missile at the gunslinger.
Ninja: I make an attack roll.
Me: …it’s a boy. An emotionally distraught boy.
Ninja: *shrugs* A nonlethal attack.
He proceeds to jump kick the boy in the head, doing enough nonlethal damage to knock him out.
Part 2: Interrogating Matthias
Concerned over poor Matthias (well, one of them was, anyway) they bring him back to a safe-house. To ensure he doesn’t shoot off another attack, they tie him to a chair first, and then the gunslinger wakes him up. Meanwhile the ninja hangs out in the background, hiding in the shadows. Gunslinger asks him about his past, why he was angry, etc, and gets Matthias to promise he won’t attack again, then unties him.
Ninja: Once they’re done, I walk past the boy and out of the room.
Me: He’s startled, as he had no idea you were there.
Ninja: Wait! I have a better idea. I’ll hide, constantly. He’ll never know I’m there. I’ll be a ghost. He’ll spend years never knowing if I’m real or a figment of his imagination.
Me: So you want to traumatize the boy?
Me: The one who lost his mother the day of his birth and just witnessed his father beheaded a few days prior?
