Intermission 3 Page 8
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“We’re not letting her stay.”
“But Lohk, she said she quit!”
“Not soon enough, she didn’t. By her own admission!”
“And that’s assuming we can even trust her.”
“Even the human agrees with me! Isn’t that right, Kamau?”
“…”
“You have to be kidding.”
“It’s just…”
“If she was lying to gain sympathy, I think she’d probably say she quit BEFORE participating in their atrocities. Either that or she would have attacked us. She had a good chance to do so earlier, actually.”
“I can’t think of any reason for her to tell us this much unless she really had left the cult.”
“Well, unless she was making it ALL up, just to mess with us.”
“She can’t be, I saw her use magic earlier.”
“That IS the sort of thing I’d do for fun, though.”
“But she’s KILLED people!!”
“Sure, but who hasn’t?”
“…”
“…”
“I haven’t.”
“If we can’t agree based on logic, that would seem to make Ricki the best qualified to decide based on morality.”
“It’s MY alley!”
“Lohk, can’t you please let her stay, at least for tonight?”
“…Bah.”
“That means yes!”
“BAH!!”
BAAHHH!!
… does that mean Lohk used to be a purple minion? The scar could be a remnant from her removing the safety goggles at some point in ther past, but she seems to be lacking the fuzzy hair.
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That is very interesting to note. We should try very hard in the future to not make Ricky kill anyone, I think. I know life is hard, but maybe she can get by without that if the others help her.
Morally, the difference between “helped murder” and “murder” is pretty narrow. You can’t spelunk dungeons without taking lives. Murder is a hazard of the adventurer trade (in every sense).
She’s an accessory to murder, which is pretty much the same thing.
Dungeon-delving is breaking and entering, and killing anyone who stops you from looting the place like it’s a Gucci store in San Francisco. I think we need to pop Ricki’s kill cherry. She’ll never be a successful adventurer until she learns to kill other beings and take their stuff. Really first-class expert treasure-hunters actually enjoy killing. They get creative about it and regard it as an art.
I’d say, Ricky’s a Thief so far, not an Assasin. That’s the small difference of being put into prison, instead of being killed on spot. I think it should stay like if the story permits.
Killing isn’t elegant or creative! It’s not her style!
Dungeons aren’t for people, they’re for monsters. There’s mysterious magical laws in this world which conjure obstacles and treasure from nothing, to threaten and reward whoever gets caught up in them. Any “people” we find there are potential friends.
Mechanically not difficult, as I hear that nonlethal takedowns aren’t different in game rules (dungeon 2 Kamau level up, when I observed Cleave triggers on “kill” when we spent most of the dungeon knocking out enemies).
Of course, given we’re going to the rat vaults, I think they’d disagree with Ricki’s assertion given that the second action she ever took (after getting out of her cell) was to stomp a rat to death with her bare feet.
“to not make Ricky kill anyone”: I can go with this. Ricki did kill Skeletons and bats, for example, but obviously those do not count as “anyone”. Killing monsters: OK, killing persons: should be avoided. (If someone tries to harm Ricki, that does not need any exception, because anything trying to harm Ricki is a monster.)
A standard approach with scams is to make them really obvious, to filter out all the people who might figure it out partway through.
Lara pretty clearly doesn’t need our help. We’re the ones who benefit from her sticking around.
“Lara pretty clearly doesn’t need our help.” But who will ensure that she does not use the forbidden abilities? Who will help her to stop smoking? Who will help her with the issue she cried about in the prologue?
Allow me to modify King Marth’s statement to be a bit more accurate:
In my minds eye, I think of Lohk’s voice as the old lady from Yuyu Hakusho. Forget her name, but she had that secret technique she wanted to pass on before she died. Anyone agree? 😛
You mean, of course, in your mind’s ear.
Forgot to mention on page 6: The Empire sealed the underground, from which the arachnomancers were releasing terrible things. Undermountain is a classic underground mega dungeon, and the Underdark is treated much the same. The Chapel was walled off to keep it from growing, what if the entire underground is a massive Dungeon?
I’m picturing an end game now where Ricki wakes up in the alley here, surrounded by Lohk and all her (surviving) friends, and sees the alley in third person because the seal broke and the entire city has been absorbed into the dungeon.
Bahhhh