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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8645856" data-attributes="member: 29398">I've played a clone PC, though not necessarily by choice. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />About 37 years ago a character of mine died, and failed revival.&nbsp; Undaunted, a few years later various PCs prepared to walk into the land of the dead and fish him out the hard way.&nbsp; This seemed like throwing good lives after bad, so another character just tried wishing him back to life instead.For reasons still unknown to me, the DM decided that this wish didn't revive him conventionally but instead generated a clone; with my original PC's spirit still stuck in Niflheim.&nbsp; Very messy.They then went and got the original spirit back, meanwhile the clone got parked safely out of the way; and much later - as in merely about 6 years ago after having played each version of him at different times now and then - the original and clone were divinely merged into one very confused being.I kid you not, this still isn't fully sorted out yet.&nbsp; The merged character is still active and has full memories from both his &quot;selves&quot; - and given that some people - most notably his in-game wife (another PC) - treated his clone very differently than they treated the original him, he's now somewhat unsure who his real friends are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8645856, member: 29398"] I've played a clone PC, though not necessarily by choice. :) About 37 years ago a character of mine died, and failed revival. Undaunted, a few years later various PCs prepared to walk into the land of the dead and fish him out the hard way. This seemed like throwing good lives after bad, so another character just tried wishing him back to life instead. For reasons still unknown to me, the DM decided that this wish didn't revive him conventionally but instead generated a clone; with my original PC's spirit still stuck in Niflheim. Very messy. They then went and got the original spirit back, meanwhile the clone got parked safely out of the way; and much later - as in merely about 6 years ago after having played each version of him at different times now and then - the original and clone were divinely merged into one very confused being. I kid you not, this still isn't fully sorted out yet. The merged character is still active and has full memories from both his "selves" - and given that some people - most notably his in-game wife (another PC) - treated his clone very differently than they treated the original him, he's now somewhat unsure who his real friends are. [/QUOTE]

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