Sure, that's true too, but I was talking about the actual Chaotic virtues, like forgiving debts or resisting tyranny or dungeon crawling or military adventurism. There's a reason that not all of Aroden's saints were Lawful!

Oh, certainly, although immoderation makes a vice of any virtue and the Chaotic virtues are - Cayden's drink being stronger stuff than Erastil's phlegm - much quicker to do you harm.

Penny for your thoughts, boss?

Why is the Gantelope hiding behind an unremarkable door in Korvosa's Vaults?

Wait, why is the what what now?

And why doesn't that party of four remember encountering it? It is, pardon my language, one Abyss of a thing to forget.

Bossman. Toffy. Lord Ornelos. How careful should I be being about opening doors?

Even accepting that there are some (few) Chaotic virtues, I think that if you were just trying to be Good, you'd find that the sum of the virtue vectors is Lawful Good. 

I'm sorry, are you stupid? If the only thing that you're trying to be is Good, you'd wind up Neutral Good, because that's True Good without any other components. This is self-evident?? 

Did you just call me stupid!?

And I think that's just about enough abuse from the peanut gallery. 

Again, did you just call me stupid.

I asked whether you were stupid. Learn the difference. 

I can still hear you going at it. Stahp.

How did they escape, burbling and slimy, from the phytotelma of the pitcher plant? The Gantelope is not an uncontained Worldwound; generally speaking, doors in are not doors out. I do not think it indicative of superstition that my mind turns in this case to the interventionist gods - they are intent on this place.

Why?

I've been assuming it's from personal animus towards me in particular - it's not like I wouldn't have it coming.

Toff, can you please explain what's going on? 

No. But I can make an attempt.

The adventurers we're watching - by appearances, they're real people who have real histories in Korvosa, although no one I've yet found has been able to corroborate anything but the broadest strokes of those histories - no family, no friends. They formed their party sometime last night for the purpose of exploring the nooks and crannies of this Vault, and in the course of their exploration happened across a door to the Gantelope. 

They did not, I believe, recognize this door for what it was.

Now, I am not Marcus Endrin to track a falcon on a cloudy day, but neither am I wholly blind: four adventurers entered the Gantelope. And four adventurers left.

The same four? Possibly. Probably. I'm not entirely sure.

Of course they're not. They're secretly demons. Or secretly possessed by demons, or secretly something else like that.

They don't detect as Evil.

Neither do you or I.

I don't detect as Evil because I'm not. 

I'm really sorry - so, so sorry - for implying that you were Evil, I shouldn't have and wouldn't have and the fact that I nonetheless did - sir, it turns my stomach. 

I didn't know you were in the closet.

I appreciate input from the peanut gallery! It tells me whether what I'm saying is landing or if I need to take a different tack.

I don't expect that they're demons, or possessed by demons, although I can't dismiss the possibility, and if they are demonic it seems unwise to force a confrontation at this time. 

To be certain, your first thought now is the same as mine was, but I've since soured on it. If the adventurers were demons, or possessed by demons, and unwarded against divination, they'd have been noticed by the inquisitors searching for shadows with detect chaos and detect evil. But if they were demons who were warded against alignment detection, I would myself have noticed their wards with my permanent arcane sight, unless those wards were supernatural or extraordinary rather than magic in nature, or unless their minds were guarded with the ultimate abjuration. But! We know they aren't mind blanked, because mind blank would suppress the Caydenite's native Chaotic aura, and that would have been noticed by the inquisitors I interrogated.