I decided to test something. I left The Red Prince and Sebille standing in front of the entrance guards while my Rogue and Lhose made their escape by falling off the broken ladder in the southeast tower. Nothing happened the The Red Prince or Sebille.
So I activated the waypoint, and had Sebille go into the underground tunnel, then teleport outside, then back inside. When I approached the gate guards, they triggered combat with both Sebille and the Red Prince.
Not only has Sebille apparently done nothing to warrant being attacked - at least, nothing the guards should have any awareness of - but the Red Prince CERTAINLY has not. He was standing right there in plain sight the whole time, doing nothing. That's apparently a death sentence all of a sudden.
This has possible negative implications for competitive questing as well. Why should the Red Prince get dragged into a fight when he did nothing wrong?
I had him flee combat, and after Sebille was dead, the guards still hated him, even though he didn't attack them and did nothing worse than pulling out his weapon when the guards attacked him with no provocation, and want a bribe to talk to him again.
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Look, if you're going to have a psychic flag, it should not be set until you come into contact with magisters who live. This means the guys at the armory, and even then that should only set the flag if you convince them to withdraw.
("Hey guys, we withdrew after that magister undercover with the prisoners warned us about an army of seekers attacking."
"...What 'undercover magister'?"
"Err..."
"Prisoner headcount - NOW!"
The only other place would be the final fight, but even then that probably doesn't make sense.
