The Wayward
An insane preacher telling a laughing crowd about love, kindness, and nobility of spirit. An ordinary sight in the streets — every city has its idiots. Oftentimes, when the crowd grows tired of listening to sermons, it finds a new entertainment by dragging the preacher to the stake. But this girl has already been tossed on the pyre and survived, and despite it all, she continues to appeal to the people's better nature. Will she achieve more than others of her ilk? Who's to say...
Objectives
- Wait to see how things unfoldThe mob loves a wretch, a feeble-minded, hysterical, starry-eyed preacher — when one of these unfortunates stands on a corner and begins their sermon, a crowd will immediately gather. Some will laugh, some will cry, some will toss a coin at their feet... But will any of them listen? Will they do as they are told? The obvious conclusion: of course they won't. But let's leave our biases aside as we observe how the throngs of Drezen respond to the exhortations of a ragged elf girl.
- Go to the shrine of BaphometThe hypothesis has been disproved: it seems the girl has formidable powers of persuasion. She managed to convince the Baphomet cultists to defect to her side — and these are people who are hardly ripe for reconversion. After suffering this ideological blow, the templars decided to resort to violence — but that has never been their forte. If the Commander hurries to help, the little preacher will be shaken but unharmed.
- Defeat the demonsAnd the same trick again: the little preacher somehow prompted a change of heart in a fanatic wielding a sacrificial knife. What's more, her goodness is such an affront to Baphomet that he has sent a troop of demons after her. Luckily for her, the Commander is at hand to defend {mf|his|her} strange charge.
- Decide the fate of the cultistsThe demons have been destroyed. The demon worshipers, strange as it may be, escaped unharmed. The innocent preacher begs the Commander to spare the lives of her abductors. Why are these shriveled stumps of human souls so important to her? Does she really hope to heal them?
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Same story arc
Demonic Parasites, Seek and Ye Shall Find, A Noble Intent, Seeking Forgiveness, A Lesson in Applied Conjuration, Back to the Roots, The Blessed, Arueshalae Imprisoned, Borrowed Dreams, Till Death Do Us Part, The Wicked, On Hope's Wings, Underground Army, Crescent of the Abyss