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//Lyte's entire basis of her stance with the crystal's has been directly in response to her witnessing atrocities committed by crystal influenced folks early in the plot, and it was Lyte herself who watched two crystal dominated people try and forcibly drag Khaya, one on each arm, into a crystal.
Lyte herself, while battling Crystal Guardians only a few feet from Jiyyd, was tripped,(strength and dex rolls made), by a crystal person, who there about immediately tried to grab her and drag her towards the crystals. Lyte naturally will not trust the crystals after such activities. No less than four attempts were made to thrust her into the crystals, she would be "with" the crystals if she had not made four strength checks.
Lyte also personally witnessed crystal folks trying to trick others into following them to "look closer at the pretty crystals" and "touch them to get a pleasant surprise", and had to actively step in and tell the persons being tricked that it was a ruse.
Obviously, this must have happened more times than Lyte's limited experiance…but it is not second hand information, and these actions that did occur are the logical basis of virtually everyone's stance for how we look upon the crystals from the outside.
They have clearly done what we percieve as "evil" acts, dominating and dragging people to their dooms.
I dont see how this could be "unauthorized" activities, or "not have happened", as there must have been dms behind this, as there were active crystals shooting magics about, and guardians running around killing people, and folks being vaporized, or whatever by these crystals.
I asked two different dms, after Lyte started running into denials of these happenings much later down the road, and both dms responded that if the things occured in game, I should not ignore them, that they happened if Lyte saw them.
This is why there is this impassable rift between the crystal folks and outsiders currently, and I dont see how anyone who is basically playing a good character can witness such things, not to mention seeing innocent travelers, children playing, anyone who comes along, who touches a colorful crystal being killed outright even up until this past week, without these repercussions of mistrust, and downright loathing of the Crystal Collective.
Just trying to clearly point out the motivations behind those outside the Crystal Collective. It seems to me also, that many of those in the collective now, ought not to be there at all, if they were gotten there through these devious means, and if this was not the intended way that things were meant to take place.
Personally, I find it terribly difficult having to try and deal with Lyte's feelings of responsibility and friendship to her 4 troopers affected, and her complete and well merited mistrust of what she sees as the slavemasters who dominate them, who may at any time try to drag her to her doom using her comrades in arms.
I wanted to post this here, because, obviously, if players early on played things incorrectly, perhaps due to a lack of information, then we need an about face of some kind real quick in "what actually occured"
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