>>5220546You look to Gisela and Stefan, who hold each other subtly.
“You are okay with thisss?” you ask.
“No,” Stefan says, plainly.
“YES,” Gisela says, glaring at him, and then looking to you apologetically. “Forgive him, he is…”
“Being honest,” Stefan says. “But… Yes, sorry. No, we’re not… I’m not happy about it, but…”
“But it’s worth it,” Gisela finishes, squeezing his arm and looking at you in awe and terror. “We don’t regret it.. Our pact.”
“…No,” Stefan admits, though with obvious shame that he does not feel more regret. “Still… You can mess with minds, right? With memories? I’d hoped… The mage, Madame Henzler, she said we’d have to kill them, to keep them quiet. I was hoping…”
He was hoping you could sue mesmerism to purge his captured guests’ minds of their traumatic captivity and experimentation, and then release them.
“They’re only disposable, utterly unremarkable travelers,” Henzler mutters.
What do you do?
>Kill them all—it’s safer>Attempt to forge further pacts, bargaining for these people’s freedom in exchange for their loyalty and energy to further empower Irrinile>Erase these captives’ memories and free them>Write-in