>>5719558There are others like this one: sad stories, and some more hopeful.
“If we stay, we can survive this,” says one woman, a middle-aged ‘halfling’ and apparent owner of a tavern, as well as matriarch of a multigenerational household of the small humanoids. “If we leave, it’ll all go to pot, and then what? What will we have?”
“Your livesss,” you reply, bluntly.
“You said the dragons are dealt with, right?” she presses.
You frown.
“There are other threats out her,” Olu comes to your aid. “Animals… Monsters, bandits… Without a community of size to protect you, you will be vulnerable.”
The halfling female just grins and gestures to her family.
“Nothing we can’t handle!”
You sigh, and consider this matter. If you leave these people here, there will be witnesses to the continued survival—and animal-predations, if not anthropophagy—of the Dragonborn. There might even be conflict. In the absence of such reports, you can claim to have ‘dealt with’ the problem of the dragonkin, but if more reports arise it will give lie to this claim, and potentially bring down the force of the entire Paladin order upon your brothers and sisters. Oh, you have total control of Prince Rufos of course… But to deny the aid of paladins in slaying a dragon besieging the farmlands would raise eyebrows which you’d rather not be raised.
What will you do?
>Let the holdouts remain, and hope the Dragonborn can avoid conflict with them epr yoru instructions>Force the holdouts to accompany you, if they can’t be persuaded>Send the Thief to instruct your big brother: all survivors who refuse to accompany you must be eliminated, without exception>Write-in 