I don't think she's under the influence by the time the conversation leading to it happens. I consider it exploitative under the circumstance that you gather enough info on True Souls to know they don't know what their own deal is because of the parallel to impaired judgement. Like yes it is definitively what she wants but choosing to indulge while your character is well aware of how vulnerable she really is gets gross. It's just that I almost never avoid finding that info before heading over to the goblins so I feel more strongly about it as a result.
If the character doesn't learn much about True Souls first it's more of a non-problem exactly because she definitively wants it for herself and is otherwise sober. Even the most negative read of that circumstance isn't really related to the scene itself and far more related to the raid and/or the meta knowledge that it was placed there to be the player's reward for eeeeeeevil.
What I'd like is for the artifact to have started working sooner so that the loyalty to the Absolute she conveys AFTER the scene instead gets brought up before it, still while free of the Absolute's influence. That would alleviate it significantly in my eyes, though I'd obviously still prefer the opportunity to talk her down ahead if the scene entirely since she should by all rights be way more receptive than Nere.
Last edited by Auric; 26/10/23 08:43 PM.
