#was introduced as the sole survivor of a tpk!

[explorerspack]

hi guys i'm posting again. as much as i love playing characters who have a self-preservation instinct it's so much EASIER to play characters who do not have one even at all especially in situations Like This

#cw:fire #c:megadungeon #cha:alessi #or really like alessi thinks they don't NEED a self-preservation instinct bc their saint and their holy purpose is preserving them #but it was so EASY to just be like 'yeah i charge into the burning building yeah i keep going deeper into the fire yeah i grab the searing- #hot door handle. there's a person in there who might possibly still be alive!' i didn't even have to THINK about it #and not even like. not even a person they KNEW especially well just A Person #and they still couldn't actually get her out alive :( but they still gave it all they had and still managed to get her body out #[i'm going to need to take this next two weeks (:() b4 we play to figure out how they feel about that. beyond 'angry at ragnarr'] #i was getting a little worried in there tbh! 14 hp is not very much to end up with! but i didn't have to even consider turning around #and alessi wasn't even a little bit worried about it they knew they'd be fine #that's clerics <3 kings of getting into situations and getting other people out of situations and NOT getting themselves out of situations #and it's such a fun contrast w my other active megadungeon guy being salvador who DOES have the hit-da-bricks instinct #was introduced as the sole survivor of a tpk! #and the fun tension that gives w him being a guy who Does walk the edge of death frequently #and who HAS that castillian bravado and that bravery sword and who IS a bit of a risk taker even just for the sake of taking risks #but who also knows when to get the hell out of dodge bc if you want to stay alive you have to keep yourself alive. and for now he'd really #rather like to be alive! #cha:salvador #okay NOW i'm going shopping #love when meg puts me in a situation <3

[vanwithhands]

I think this can’t be a genuine tpk, I think they’re all coming back. Brennan knew going in, he stacked the odds against them far worse than he did in the corn cuties fight, he needed them all to die because he’s going to introduce something insane and we’re all betting on a time loop. So I don’t think they’ll make new characters and Ylfa as the sole survivor. Saying “you have to roll a nat 20 and even then you’re still in pitched combat and have to try to revive your friends” is an impossible feat, even for Ally “Narrative Nat Twenty” Beardsley.

My other reason is that Brennan can and will bend his own rules for narrative satisfaction. Even if it truly was just bad luck that there was a tpk, he’s a storyteller and I don’t think he would permit that kind of setup with no payoff for all these complex backstories, even with lapin and jet they had, albeit devastating, but narratively sound endings for the journeys their characters were on.

#neverafter #d20 #dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan #dimension 20 neverafter