2 Save the Cat

Alignment can be tricky. Saying a character is good, evil, or neutral leaves so much undefined. This chart will help you navigate those shades of gray based on what your character would be willing to do for a cat stuck in a tree.

 Choose where your character might fall based on what he or she would or would not do:

Evil Actions	Set the tree on fire.	Throw a rock at the cat.
Save the cat and use the story to get elected to a political office that will allow you to close the city’s animal shelters, forcing thousands of feral cats to take residence in trees.	Bind the cat’s spirit to the tree, making it a vengeful guardian of the very tree that imprisoned it.	Build a series of deadly traps around the tree to kill any potential rescuers.
Use magic to conceal the tree so the cat never gets rescued.	Convince a child to save the cat, injuring both in the process.	Grumpily wonder if anyone would rescue you if you got stuck in a tree.

Neutral Actions	Feel guilty that you don’t have time to help the cat.	Wonder aloud, “Hey, whose cat?”
Say, “Hey, cat! Get down here!” Shrug. Walk away.	Defensively justify to the cat why you can’t save it right now as it watches you with anxious disinterest.	Sit watching the cat until it gets down safely on its own. Feel relieved that everything worked out okay.

Good Actions	Find a ladder to rescue the cat.	Rescue the cat.
Rescue the cat. Form a deep emotional bond with it as you nurse it back to health. Adopt it.	Battle the horde of undead terrors who chased the cat into the tree.	Evade the wild dogs that chased the cat into the tree. Rescue the cat.
Evade the wild dogs that chased the cat into the tree. Rescue the cat. Train the wild dogs to be emotional support animals.		Free-climb forty feet into a thorny tree to rescue the cat.