Mazoku was incompetent. Joseph probably felt he was leveling the playing field. Arcus, however, is the setting’s resident Munchkin. Of course the DM’s going to make him work for his goodies.
Arc is too much of a wildcard for Joseph to “sponsor” him–he has a reasonably good idea of what Mazoku plans to do, and that aligns with his goals (crazy as they may be). In their previous interactions, Arc has shown that he can’t be expected to take a reasonable course of action, even from an Evil alignment perspective. Heck, he might turn around and burn down the whole operation just because he finds it amusing in the moment.
I think the one with the fiends was insane too.
I agree… Joseph seems to have very fluid definitions of “good”, “evil” and “insane”…
Mazoku was incompetent. Joseph probably felt he was leveling the playing field. Arcus, however, is the setting’s resident Munchkin. Of course the DM’s going to make him work for his goodies.
I am wondering what kind of past Joseph and Arcus have that makes Joseph consider Arcus as insane. More insane that the fiend from a previous arc.
Arc is too much of a wildcard for Joseph to “sponsor” him–he has a reasonably good idea of what Mazoku plans to do, and that aligns with his goals (crazy as they may be). In their previous interactions, Arc has shown that he can’t be expected to take a reasonable course of action, even from an Evil alignment perspective. Heck, he might turn around and burn down the whole operation just because he finds it amusing in the moment.
Ah. Indeed, unpredictability is a hard thing to deal with… Thanks for the clarification.
I wonder if Joseph would consider that course of action (burning the place down) to keep the items out of Arc’s hands.
So Arcus is the Chaotic Evil Munchkin? With a dash of Bond Villain and a larger dash of comedic mad scientist?