That choice is saving an innocent from the pyre. Your argument is disgusting. We will be under no obligation to become a Chaos worshipper just because we chose to be a good person at one point in our past.
Cease these degenerate arguments please. No, killing a mutant is not the best thing you can do for them. Stop agreeing with in-setting bad people who make the same immoral arguments.
Did you not read what I have said, their are mutations and defects that are not caused by the influence of the Four or concentrated Dark Magic like Warpstone and thus should not be persecuted for just existing. Once a good portion of both your arms have become Tentacles you have gone pretty far beyond a benign birth defect.
When you have gotten to the point that your hands have become Tentacles their is not much that can be done for you. What would be your cut of point be and how would you suggest a person with their lower arms turned into Tentacles be made a functional member of Imperial Society in the given situation. You could try cutting of the Tentacles and then using the Divine Magic of Shallya and the Green Wind to regenerate their arms as they were before they were changed but I doubt something like that is possible.
Once you have been warped bodily you are much more vulnerable to having it happen again and again and their is not much that can be done about it.
Your argument is disgusting. You believe that we should not have faced the daemon in the sewers. You believe that we should have let the woman in the first update burn because killing the merchant negatively impacted Markus' career. You believe that we should have let the ritual in Bogenhafen go off because Tzeentch engineered that ritual.
We have the opportunity to save an innocent from the pyre and lose Corruption points for it. That is good. Your argument that we should not fight daemons, that we should let madmen execute innocents for the sake of our career, that we should stay away from circumstances architected by Chaos, is disgusting.
If only all your arguments were as respectable as this one.
[X] [Blood] In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Markus makes it through his downtime without ever getting into anything more serious than a brief shoving match. (0 Corruption)
[X] [Excess] Markus keeps his head and cool throughout his time on the docks, regarded by his fellow labourers as a bit of a killjoy, for all that they appreciate having someone sober to watch over them. (0 corruption)
[X] [Decay] Though he was discomforted at first by his enforced rest, Markus soon finds the prospect of just laying down his burdens and forgetting all higher purposes and grand social obligations for a time surprisingly comfortable. (-1 corruption)
[X] [Change] With the mutant edict, it is illegal to persecute those whose flesh betrays them, but not all within the church or state agree. Moved by principle, Markus ends up killing a zealous priest in order to defend a mutant from the pyre, an act that may bring his entire future career - perhaps even his life - into jeopardy if it becomes known. (-3 corruption)
Okay One calm down, Two how in the world does not wanting to do something the Dark Whispers of Tzeentch push us to do mean that Netos would not want to have done something about the Daemon in the Sewers or not help the women we saved in the first update.
Third nothing about the option below says the Mutant in question is innocent or guilty or even how much they have been mutated in body let alone spirit.
If you want to pick that option you can but please don't make claims about things that aren't said in the option.
[X] [Change] With the mutant edict, it is illegal to persecute those whose flesh betrays them, but not all within the church or state agree. Moved by principle, Markus ends up killing a zealous priest in order to defend a mutant from the pyre, an act that may bring his entire future career - perhaps even his life - into jeopardy if it becomes known. (-3 corruption)
Also to note, just because the Gods will to quote the QM "attempt to influence Markus" doesn't necessarily mean that influence will take the form of corruption, it's possible -3 change action is meant to attempt to undermine his station as a witch hunter. Which is dangerous for our character but not a certainty, we can use our status as a witch hunter along with our newly gained influence with Teugen to cover it up.
Mutations are a domain all chaos gods dwell in to one extent or another, that doesn't mean that all mutants are tied to the chaos gods. As I brought up before
We can get rid of the corruption points with out taking any of the -3 options and thus I think we should avoid them.
All actions taken by the Dark Gods have the goal of corrupting a person whether it happens slowly or quickly. Our character is already suffering from a crisis of faith and and you think that having Markus who we have played as someone who cares about the truth and doing things the right way kill a priest to save a Mutant Tzeentch wants saved and a then trying to use our position to hide that action and ask the Merchant who has influence with the Nobility of Reikland not the Cult of Sigmar for help would leave us less vulnerable to the Deceiver's influence, why?
I have also said multiple times that not all things that could be considered mutations mean you are already in the Thrall of the Dark Gods. I just don't think that having your lower arms become Tentacles counts as a mundane Mutation when it was caused by long term exposure to Warpstone which is Dark Magic in solid form. Past a certain point a Mutant is screwed one way our the other and the Human Forces of Order do not have a person like Alarial the Radiant who can reverse mutations by touching a person although it was only temporary.
There is no doubt that it is the most dangerous option of all three, but at the end of the day, it's business as usual. Throughout The Enemy Within, we will be fighting Tzeentch, getting exposed to corruption, saving lives, and butting heads with the institutions of the Empire. Tell me, what do you want to do if we find out that a Chaos cult intends to hurt innocent people? Do you think we should let them because fighting the cultists exposes us to corruption? Should we permit the Cult of Sigmar to abuse people because to do otherwise would be disloyal? Is that the kind of person you want Markus to be?
Nothing he said suggests he does not want to fight any cultists we find or let people get abused. He is pointing out that doing what the Deceiver would want us to do and thus picking up traits that make us less trusted by our allies and more like his followers makes us more vulnerable to his influencing Markus further and also harder to fight his cultists Ann's agents.
We already had a literal Cultist walk up to us and give us a Handshake that left Markus's hand covered in Purple "Ink" and don't know what the after effects have been from that. Markus has Tzeentch's servants watching him and a being willing to act right in front of him which we need avoid making easier for them. I can bet you they will get involved in the -3 points option for Tzeentch to try and drag him further from the light with their action which will be easier if we are listening to their Master Whispers.
