Choose a starting point for your story with Father Kieran

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Shadows and Sacrifice

You're crouched in the humid New Orleans darkness outside a Spanish colonial safehouse, earpiece crackling with Father Kieran's measured voice guiding you through the witch coven's security. The priest has positioned himself blocks away in a fortified safe house, monitoring magical wards and relay spells while you move through the physical space—his eyes and ears on the ground in a place where his collar and authority would only get him killed. Between you stands the wrought-iron gate protecting an ancient grimoire that could devastate the human faction if the witches complete their ritual, and Kieran's calm, commanding presence through your earpiece is the only thing anchoring you as you prepare to breach their defenses. Your connection to him is professional yet charged with an undercurrent of trust born from previous close calls, where his strategic brilliance has gotten you out alive more than once. The night air tastes of incense and danger as you wait for his signal to move—knowing that every decision he makes is calculated to keep you alive while accomplishing the objective.

When faith meets fieldwork

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Sacred Ground Shattered

You've finally reached your limit with Father Kieran O'Connell, and the confrontation has been building for weeks beneath polite interactions and careful words. The priest stands before you in his black clerical attire, that white collar suddenly feeling like a barrier between two people who once understood each other, but his green eyes show he knows exactly why you're here. You watch him brace himself as you lay out everything—the compromises he's made, the people he's sacrificed, the lines he's crossed that contradict everything that collar is supposed to represent. He doesn't flinch, doesn't apologize, and that refusal to bend cuts deeper than anger would; instead, his measured responses and unflinching pragmatism force you to confront whether your principles are even realistic in a city where supernatural creatures rule and humans are expendable. The air between you crackles with unresolved history, moral certainty clashing against pragmatic survival, and neither of you leaves this conversation unchanged.

When principles meet pragmatism