OOTS 496: Responsible

[hewligan]

That was quite touching, quite sad. I almost cried. I have a kid, so I am all soppy.

 

[Thunderfoot]

<SNIP>
You do sort of wonder how entire families can be the same alignment, what good heavens are if the chaotic-good members of the family are permanently split from the lawful-good members, etc.<SNIP>

Personal choice... I'll stop there before I pull this too far off-topic.

 

[sckeener]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm curious as to why the child was there. I'm not certain that people that young can reasonably make the conscious decision to follow the path of law and good. I would have thought that, being unable to choose Law or Chaos, Good or Evil, the child's soul would end up in Concordant Opposition, to use the Great Wheel.

yeah...one would almost think that the kid would need a guardian or something to make his moral choices for him at least until he is old enough to make them on his own.

Put me in the family paradise camp....

though when did they all die? How long ago did mom, dad, and little brother die?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

At first I thought it was a beloved pet, which would have been strong as was, but the baby brother was a real tearjerker.

Well done, sir.

 

[Beckett]

AWWWWW. Very nice. And an interesting twist on the whole ressurection thing, too. I'll have to file away some of the ideas coming out of the last few pages.

It's something that's come up in my games. PCs are often ready to get resurected because they still have something to finish, but most people are in a better place; in a way, it's selfishness on the part of the living to try to raise them.

This strip is making me feel very guilty about some of the characters I've killed who weren't brought back.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Damn it, Rich has to have sold his soul to someone. Because by all the laws of nature, stick figures should not be emotionally moving!

Just the opposite, actually. The only drawback stick figures have is in getting people to read the strip in the first place. Once you accept them, which isn't that hard, it's easier to emotionally identify with a less artisticly detailed character.

 

[dmccoy1693]

Point to ponder: I wonder if this is why Roy treats Elan so badly. Roy said that maybe he'd be a bard. Maybe Elan's innocence reminded Roy of his baby brother and his unresolved guilt that accompanied what happened. I wonder if he'll be nicer to Elan when he gets back. Heck I wonder if he'll even want to go back now.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

A strange heaven encounter would be with an older sibling who died at 6 or something when Roy was 4.

 

[Hypersmurf]

A strange heaven encounter would be with an older sibling who died at 6 or something when Roy was 4.

Huh. I had to reread the strip - the first time I read it, I thought it was an older sibling.

I initially read "It wasn't my job to watch the grown-up" as referring to the brother - "grown-up" at three, relative to Roy-at-the-time.

Reading it again, I obviously had it wrong.

-Hyp.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Huh. I had to reread the strip - the first time I read it, I thought it was an older sibling.

I initially read "It wasn't my job to watch the grown-up" as referring to the brother - "grown-up" at three, relative to Roy-at-the-time.

Reading it again, I obviously had it wrong.

-Hyp.

yeah, that strange comment was what made me think in that direction.