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I decided to play the game with a half orc with the background sold your soul, which makes it so your alignment never goes above -20. I wanted to recruit some of the evil followers for a change, without having to worry about doing evil deeds. My plan was to keep my alignment at -20 or close to it. I understand Torian Kel won't join you if you're too evil.

So this was working as planned until I went to the ancient temple, when I discovered to my shock my alignment had crept to -56. I couldn't guess what happened, so I searched through my saved games, and finally discovered my alignment started going south in the BMC mine.

It started when I was in a fight with six kites: five warriors and a shaman. Before the fight, my alignment was -20; afterwards it was -23. I replayed the battle several times, and discovered I lost exactly 3 alignment points no matter how I played it. I even tried being passive and letting my followers kill the kites. It didn't matter, I lost 3 alignment points each time.

Further experimentation showed that I lost an alignment point on the third kite I killed, the fifth, and the sixth. Always. It didn't matter what order I killed the kites, or whether i killed the shaman first or last. So evidently there wasn't anything special about those three kites I killed. Also, I checked their alignment and they were all -15. There were no angelic kites hiding amidst the mob.

So what gives? Why is this happening? How can I get around it? None of my equipment appears to be cursed or unusual. And of course this only started in the BMC; I'd killed plenty of kites before hand in random encounters without any alignment penalty.

Thanks in advance for any help.

P.S.
I'm playing the game using the fan patch and high quality town maps as recommended in this forum under the stickied post "Arcanum Essential Mods. . ."
Post edited January 22, 2014 by RickTaylor
Never heard of that one before. There are certain cursed magical items that can make you more evil, but otherwise I don't know. It could also have something to do with Sold Your Soul. I'd suggest examining your inventory carefully first and if you don't find anything I'd search the forum over at terra-arcanum.com. There's years and years of collected info over there. If anyone else has had the same problem, they've probably reported it at one time or another.

Of course you can always do some good deeds to get your balance back.
I've also heard of some rare buggery which causes alignment drop on killing almost anything, so this may be related. I don't think I've ever lost alignment for killing kites, for the record.

If it keeps happening, you can download the arcanum virgil debug dialogue and use it to correct your alignment as necessary. I think it can be hard to find the file nowadays, but it's included in my rebalance patch so worse comes to worse you can download that and take the debug file. It just needs to be in your Arcanum folder, if I recall.
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ewmarch: If it keeps happening, you can download the arcanum virgil debug dialogue...
I can personally attest that the Virgil dialogue script can come in very handy at times. Try not to abuse it!