MOD POST | Trials Poll

[unhappy]

Here is the poll for the trials! Feel free to reply to the post if you have any questions or aren't sure what best fits.

Instructions:

• Answer with the response that best fits the action your characters took during the trial.
• One vote per character.
• If your character found a loophole or cheated and therefore neither choice was made, put "trial voided."
• If your character did not do a trial (you can handwave if you want your character to have gone through it but did not thread it out, or not have them participate in any you don't want them to go through) select "Did not participate."
• The last question is not a specific trial but technically definitely speaks to morality. If your character killed anyone participating in the trial outside of necessity to complete it, that counts as like a secret trial bc y'all didn't need to kill anyone for any of these.

Poll #25708 Trial Results

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 100

Trial 1: Power Imbalance

Forced control
15 (15.5%)

Granted freedom
34 (35.1%)

Trial voided
2 (2.1%)

Did not participate
46 (47.4%)

Trial 2: Schadenfreude

Cruelty
9 (9.2%)

Mercy
59 (60.2%)

Trial voided
2 (2.0%)

Did not patricipate
28 (28.6%)

Trial 3: Indulge Me

Indulgent/Greedy
8 (8.2%)

Restraint
46 (47.4%)

Trial voided
5 (5.2%)

Did not participate
38 (39.2%)

Trial 4: Stongehenge

Sloth
16 (16.3%)

Work Ethic
62 (63.3%)

Trial voided
0 (0.0%)

Did not participate
20 (20.4%)

Trial 5: Pooling Desire (Desire/Lust Portion)

Desire/Lust
29 (29.3%)

Self-Control
37 (37.4%)

Trial voided
3 (3.0%)

Did not participate
30 (30.3%)

Trial 6: Pooling Desire (Bravery/Cowardice)

Bravery
49 (50.0%)

Cowardice
3 (3.1%)

Trial voided
1 (1.0%)

Did not participate
45 (45.9%)

Trial 7: #ChaliceChallenge

Sacrificed
38 (39.2%)

Self-Preservation
15 (15.5%)

Trial voided
12 (12.4%)

Did not participate
32 (33.0%)

Secret Trial: Violent

Killed someone outside of defense of another during or after completion of a trial
5 (5.4%)

Attacked someone (but did not kill) outside of defense during or after completion of a trial
22 (23.7%)

Peaceful participant or strictly defensive fighting
66 (71.0%)

Poll ends 11:59pm PST on May 31st. Please respond before then.

Comments

[sulit]

Two questions from me:

1. In Power Imbalance, Klaudia's intent is to study the effects and limits of the bracelets (i.e. how much control does the person have, can the control be fought/overcome/blocked), so it's likely that she'll decide to release the other person but only so she can keep both bracelets for herself to experiment with later. I can't figure out exactly where this would fall. Kinda like doing the right thing for the wrong reasons--does action count more, or does intent? (And if intent matters more, does it matter that her reasons for keeping/experimenting with the bracelet are because she wants to figure out how to nullify this kind of magic? Which is it's own "Do the ends justify the means?" question...)

2. In the secret trial, if someone attacks an NPC out of what they feel is self-defense, even though the other person is not hostile, where would that fall?

[avalonmods]

1. In that case, she will have not only controlled someone, she will have ultimately decided to steal someone else's items for her own means. She's decided that what she wants and thinks it's right is more important than someone else's wants and needs-- and ultimately, because she wanted to learn how to maintain her own control. The action is definitely more important as she had free reign to make her own choices, and ultimately it's only her opinion that what she wants is more important.

2. Yeah if they think they are defending themselves that counts as self defense.

[sulit]

1. I think that's a number of assumptions being made into how much thought or motivation she's putting into her choices, the moral acknowledgement thereof, or her understanding of/the articulation of the wants/needs of others; but I appreciate the clarification that actions > intent. Thank you.

2. Again, thank you for the clarification!

[avalonmods]

Yeah! Just trying to show how I thought it through and focusing on the external consequences moreso than what she necessarily thinks she's doing! Since it's hard when most people think what they're doing is right most of the time anyway.

No problemo.