Nope!

[ soooo he's going to edit the list of potential locations he compiled during the minievent before he gives it to the npcs to take out anything that could end up being interpreted in a deadly way... ugh. ]

The monster thing too... originally they made it sound like that was completely unrelated to the ritual and we could pretty much opt out of it if we wanted. And now it turns out that oh, actually, they can use them to turn us into brainwashed murder machines. Cool.