When I first started this blog, I had intended it to be for strictly RP-writing -- to express ideas and to flesh out the lives of my characters. However, while leveling up my hunter, Saeil, I found that there were certain quest lines that I was extremely reluctant to do as they would conflict with Saeil's own views concerning morality. Both quests lines in particular are in direct service of the Royal Apothecary Society, and although I, as a player, have completed them both, I felt awful.
The most recent one involved the poor, ill Tauren -- Thersa Windsong -- in the RAS's headquarters. After I handed the filled vials of Azsharian water to the chemist, I knew from earlier experience leveling Luisette what was inevitable. I comforted Thersa, handed her the elixir which was "meant" to cure her, and felt like an absolute sellout as I handed in the quest for a measely 75 silver. Immediately I thought of Saeil's reaction -- here was my naïve, little hotheaded hunter, trying with all her might to do some bit of good in a world that calls her to kill 8 times out of 10, and... reality struck.
Saeil was never one to completely trust the Forsaken, as her hunting lodge was utterly obliterated by the Scourge attack on Quel'Thalas, but because Sylvanas was such an inspiration to her -- to all rangers, I dare say -- she accepted their tasks and carried them out with perfection. But ironically, Saeil is quite possibly the first of my characters to realize the evil behind the RAS, and to develop heavy doubts about Sylvanas and her agenda.
Which leads me to my question: Do you avoid quest hubs or specific quest chains for the sake of roleplay?
Personally, I'm a completist, going for Loremaster on Luisette and subsequent alts; and as much as I hate feeling like an absolutely horrible person (e.g. slaughtering members of the Quel'Lithien Lodge in the Eastern Plaguelands all to retrieve paperwork), I will still enter "player-mode" and complete the quests... trying not to think about how much of their "soul" my characters have lost.
Perhaps I've watched too much Reboot as a child.
