Industrygothica's "Those Left Behind" [OOC]

[Leif]

Wow, sorry, Scotley! That Jim Beam in the feeding tube episode just totally escapes me now. Of course, thinking back to any time that I needed a feeding tube is unpleasant all by itself, so perhaps you can forgive this slip as well as the coma?

 

[Scott DeWar]

Actually, I did visit after the first one, along with J. Alexander, but at the time my esteemed Co-DM was in a coma, so I'll forgive him for not remembering. I think we dropped in after he made it home. O New Year's eve to be exact. I vaguely remember J. Alexander offering to pour a little Jim Beam in his feeding tube. Or maybe Leif suggested we pour it in. The memory plays tricks on you after so many Jim Beams...I mean years.

now i know you guys are not alcoholics, but the idea of alcoholic imbibations via feeding tubes might be on the border line.... but still, not an entirely bad idea ......

 

[Leif]

now i know you guys are not alcoholics, but the idea of alcoholic imbibations via feeding tubes might be on the border line.... but still, not an entirely bad idea ......

Isn't Jim Beam one of the recognized Food Groups???

 

[Scott DeWar]

I know that Dewar's Scotch is ... I see no problem with seeing Jim Beam as likewise.

 

[Shayuri]

Meep...and then he posts.

I will instead use this to say this:

It's not exactly a complaint...more of an observation...with a timespan of 1d10+5 minutes, Friadoc's a goner. And this is particularly cruel, since as far as I can tell, unlike most ways of losing a PC, becoming a chaos beast is completely irrevocable.

Reasoning follows: None of us have spells capable of stabilizing him even temporarily, to say nothing of curing him. With a Charisma check DC of 15, it'll take a lucky roll for him to succeed. Until he succeeds, he takes 1 Wis damage per -round-. Success buys 1 minute's respite.

The minimum time it could take is 6 minutes. That's 60 rounds. So unless he is -incredibly- lucky, and rolls a bunch of high Cha saves, AND the d10 roll is really low...he's sunk.

Honestly, from a metagame perspective, the best thing to do right now is kill him. Do that, and there's options. Once he's a chaos beast, he's gone forever. It's too late even to KILL him then.

Thoughts?

 

[Scott DeWar]

in the in character thoughts of the character i am playing, I would have the following observation:

He is chaotic good and would not kill another good creature. he is a paladin of freedom. and there fore would dispise the usurption of friadak's will by the effects of this beast and would do what ever it takes to save him...but Killing him does not seem to be a solution and may not save him. the character, as well as I, does not know if this process continues even beyound death. so there fore he is thinking that finding help like NOW is the only solution.

I am sorry for the lack of help on the matter. I really do not know what to do here. Perhaps if a wagon and horse is found he can speed the arriveal to a temple ...?

 

[Shayuri]

Well at this point I'm just inviting OOC contributions. IC, I doubt any of us understand the chaos beast's transformation well enough to justify slaughtering him before the change is complete.

 

[Leif]

My OOC observation is that I am totally against any party member killing another pc! The fact that doing so MIGHT provide what might be the only chance to save him in the long run does indeed complicate the issue beyond my capacity to comfortably grasp, at the moment at least. Still, I'm ag'in' it!! (But, having said my peace on the matter, I will not object if someone else takes some rash action to do it. )

 

[Friadoc]

I'm a very good natured player, folks - I live and die by what is in character, so OOCly I will state that if Friadoc has to die, then so be it. If I lose him to NPC status because of the chaos beast thingy, again, so be it.

I love my characters, all of them, but if it fits the story and events that bad stuff happens, well that is the risk of RPGs.

I'm cool no matter what happens...now I'm gonna roll some WIS.

Er, Chr rolls, I mean. <- Edit

 

[Leif]

Kudos to you, Friadoc!!