Role

Chapter 5

The Paladin Code, concluded
Added Wed Feb 21 04:26:49 2007 at level 28:

This is one of the few times when the simple, easy answer is also the
correct answer. Consult your faith, your experience, your heart, Yiko.
Hmm, respect...respect...fight...lead...courage...respect. The lesson is
respect. Good. Respect for myself and for others. But, eleven isn't
very ambiguous about certain "people," fiends, monsters that deserve no
respect. No...but wait. Do not associate with the TAINT OF EVIL (underlined
and circled) Is anyone condemned to the taint of evil? Forever? The tales of
the poor cursed drow, even a duergar...eh maybe not. But it is true
the burden of sin and wickedness is never permanent...what well-meaning and
naive people call my holyness is not mine to own. Hells no. It's a struggle, a
constant war to decide what is right and then do it...I stand next to evil. Huh.

If it is only my actions and intent that keeps my soul pure, the reverse
must be true. The Taint Of Evil is not the essence of a person's spirit, it
is actions, wicked scheming...a life lived badly. If I was a Herald, well it does not
mean I associate with the Taint. Instead, I can try to associate with the other
part...the blank slate...the lifeforce.

Or I can absorb firewater fumes for a hundred years and someday forget
that one bright spring morning I wrote a lie in my journal, and believed it.

I can find my fine line in there...I can. Need to fight and clear my mind. Think
about my audition...