Rhun's Greyhawk OMEGA OOC Thread (ToEE) - CLOSED!!!

[Dire Lemming]

The problem is that those are all meta-concerns. You--the player--understand that Shoon only needs his fists and that being captured would very likely be quite an interesting plot twist.

Would I--the player--rather not have my PC die and surrender in order to not have to create a new PC for this game (assuming Rhun re-opens a spot for me in the game)? Yep. Would Jinx surrender to captivity? Nope. Jinx's been there, done that once before. He'd rather die fighting to get out than let himself be taken captive down in that dungeon. There have been no clues that these brigands keep prisoners alive, but there has been every clue that the entire temple is nothing other than a shrine of depravity and death.

I thought the first two were pretty good in character motivations. In Shoon's eyes; Sir Merrick is reliable in combat, he likes him well enough, but he only seems interested in fighting and killing, which he looks down on. Zirat is the same except he brags about it. He irrationally gives halflings and gnomes the benefit of the doubt since their lack of height makes them seem childlike and nonthreatening. Then he saw Deren stabbing helpless enemies to death instead of helping the others fight, so he doesn't like Deren anymore, though he'll probably get over it sooner or later... if he lives. Jinx on the other hand, he still likes Jinx as the strange but reletively helpful, funny little mage with the funny cat. He thinks Ciaran is a mad moron, sorry. Aeron is the only one of the group that he seems to agree with morally, and he hasn't done anything to shake his faith in him.

Don't forget that Shoon is rather socially inept, and he's only known these people for a short while, so he's mostly acting on impressions which are likely false.

Anyway, Shoon has pretty much given up hope for the party after they apparently ignored their original purpose for being here in favor of killing everyone they came across, but he's willing to stand with Aeron to make sure he doesn't die if he can help it, and if he gets the chance he'll try to knock Jinx out in so they'll take him prisoner instead of killing him as well.

Assuming they are willing to take us prisoner...

 

[CanadienneBacon]

...he's willing to stand with Aeron to make sure he doesn't die if he can help it, and if he gets the chance he'll try to knock Jinx out in so they'll take him prisoner instead of killing him as well.

Well, should it come to pass, that ought to be an...interesting...turn of events.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Well of course he'd only do that after he tried and failed to convince him to surrender. He doesn't just go around knocking out his allies for kicks you know.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

I should expect not, no.

But I can't say that Jinx would later react favorably to having been knocked out and made to submit to someone else's will, particularly not when presumably he'd already been asked to do Shoon's bidding and declined. As much as you rail against the actions of the group, decrying us to be immoral, I find it ironic that you'd attempt to knock out my PC simply because he mightn't do Shoon's bidding.

Funny, that.

 

[Dire Lemming]

You seem to think Shoon's actions are inspired by some sort of megalomania. No, while I'd love to play a character who bends people to his will so that he doesn't even have to fight them. Shoon is just a simple Monk with an unimpressive charisma score and no ranks in diplomacy. His most inspiring trait is his conviction in good, which only means that most of his actions are motivated by that conviction. That includes protecting his allies, as long as they don't seem totally evil, even if they don't want to be protected.

 

[Dichotomy]

Wow...

I guess I'm glad Shoon likes Aeron.

Don't know if I can add to that.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Er, what's that supposed to mean? Is Shoon really that scary? He's kind of like a paladin you know, he's lawful good so I figured it'd be expected.

 

[Voadam]

In Shoon's eyes; Sir Merrick is reliable in combat, he likes him well enough, but he only seems interested in fighting and killing . . .

Don't forget that Shoon is rather socially inept, and he's only known these people for a short while, so he's mostly acting on impressions which are likely false.

I wouldn't say all his impressions were false

 

[Strahd_Von_Zarovich]

Zirat is the same except he brags about it.

That means I play him like I wanted, a brag arena champion of Kord … but a good one.

He thinks Ciaran is a mad moron, sorry.

That is funny

The whole idea is take a prisoner to question him about where Jebedaia is.
But we don’t want to die, we can escape and try again

 

[InVinoVeritas]

Wait, doesn't everyone think of sir Merrick as their close confidante and good buddy?

Why, Ciaran will be your special friend...

He thinks Ciaran is a mad moron, sorry.

Bah, some people have no idea what true genius looks like!