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Otohan Thull think they Elon Musk. Elon Musk think he Ludinus Daleth. Ludinus Daleth think he Moc Weepe. Moc Weepe think he the hamburglar.

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https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3007

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Everyone else has already made great posts about all the other reasons why they hope FCG’s death is permanent, which I agree with, but here’s my additional two cents. I hope their death is permanent because you loose all semblance of stakes if you never have any permanent deaths. Dnd is designed for people to come back from the dead sometimes, but there are mechanisms to make sure that sometimes is not all the time. Death as a possibility anchors the stakes of the game, the risk that it *could* happen, even if there’s a bigger chance it won’t, is necessary for anything else to feel real. If there’s no worry of permanent death, why are we doing anything at all? Where are the walls of this story, what’s at stake, why do we even care about rushing into danger anymore if we can all just come back? There’s no emotional weight. We’ve already had Laudna come back even though by many accounts she should’ve permanently died in that situation, and while I don’t think it was bad she was able to be brought back, I think there was narrative groundwork that made her coming back make sense (and I think a permanent death from that specific fight would’ve been… not a very fun move from a DMing perspective but that’s a different post). But if FCG comes back too, it means the precedent is now that there is always a way to skirt death. I think that precedent would make the story a lot less fun, and I think Sam understands that, and I don’t think FCG will or should come back. That death was really emotionally weighty and I don’t want to lose that, or the chance of that in the future.

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Otohan died as she lived: being overshadowed by the more emotionally resonant and interesting beats of the story.

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The thing that I keep getting stuck on is that Lilianna believed Imogen when she suggested she didn't know about the assassination attempt. Is she swayed because she's had a change of heart, or is she swayed because this deception means she can still believe in the uncomplicated innocence of her daughter? And if the latter, what happens if that image of Imogen is broken again?

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It’s important to note the really significant difference between FCG’s failed attempts at self sacrifice earlier in the campaign, and their successful self sacrifice now. Before they were looking for the act of self sacrifice to grant them some sort of purpose or meaning they didn’t feel as a living being. But Sam made it very clear that at the end, FCG had found meaning and purpose in life, and now the goal if his self sacrifice was purely to save his friends. Not because his “purpose” as a robot was to protect others, but because he loved his friends, and he wanted them to live.

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matt ruling that the technical damage from the explosion was irrelevant due to the power and weight of fcg’s sacrifice is what really got me. even if sam rolled the max possible number on the dice, it wouldn’t have even brought otohan to below where she was before she took the health potion. mechanically speaking, she should have survived that blast by a LOT of hit points. but this was a player willingly killing their own character, beyond reviving and even potentially beyond resurrection, to give the rest of the party any advantage they could, and he rewarded that with the death of a character that has haunted this campaign from the very beginning. unreal fucking plays by both matt and sam tonight.

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I especially like that FCG cast his guiding bolt through the Changebringer's coin, the symbol of chance and choices and (for him) asking for direction, at a time when the Changebringer had previously bowed out of input (should we run? the coin lands on its side) and when it came to that final moment FCG made the choice himself. They self-actualized not just in believing their personhood but in believing their agency. FCG, today you were the bringer of change.

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As much as I am genuinely sad to lose FCG, who was a really fantastic character, I am really really interested to see how they deal with such a late in the game (but not finale) PC perma death, it’s unique in the big campaigns and I think it could yield some super fascinating results.

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I can't fucking believe this man

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FCG you gave us so much you gave us robot romance you gave us flesh tongue you gave us flat Exandria you gave us thoughtful religion arc you gave us commissioning legs and forgetting about them you gave us all this and so much more you will be missed. Forever in our hearts and with the changebringer robotic king.

Chetney you gave us so much you gave us the threesome you gave us RTA you gave us D100 heart attack you gave us Cheenis you gave us maybe being Orym’s dad you gave us all this and so much you will be missed. Forever in our hearts and the stars king.

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POPPING SOME BITTERSWEET BOTTLES IN THE CRIB TONIGHT HOMIES.

Prayer circle let Otohan die tonight. Let’s kill someone. I crave violence and tension we have the tension it’s time for violence.

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This is literally an ICONIC move, I am LIVING, what a BITCH OF A CLERIC, ABSOLUTE MADMAN SAM RIEGEL

committed to going out and taking us all with him

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is it wrong that a not insignificant part of my brain went “but the aeorian technology and history that will be lost…” I am also sad over FCG they grew to be such a fun character for me but like. That did occur to me. Quite immediately.

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Snapple you are lying to me in a really big way right now.

picked up my Snapple. Saw the top of the cap. It says “fun time every time”

IS IT SNAPPLE???! IS IT??!?