dramatispersonae

KNIGHTS

There is cauldron in the center over your area. The walls are tinged in your team's colors, but besides the cauldron, it's bare.

The water in the cauldron is glowing faintly.

Then, Nimue speaks, and as she speaks, the cauldron begins to reflect her vision.

"There lies a kingdom in ruin... Through no fault of its own. All of its inhabitants dead, or lost to the world. Though it lies in ruin, you can see the the faint remnants of the beauty it once contained."

A pause, her voice sounds fainter now.

"Heroes... you have choices that we do not. How... would you use them...?"

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You want to bring back the dead?

The lost. She said dead or lost.

Sure, if it's possible. Why not?

No, in this case the dead are best left dead.

No!

Why not? Wouldn't it be better if they could be revived? But the lost should be found as well.

Right? How does anyone decide that someone who whose lives were unfairly cut short is best left dead? I don't get the problem at all!

[frustrateddd]

That's— that's not the point!

What is the point?

[WE'RE GOING TO YELL ABOUT IT DOWNTHREAD APPARENTLY]

The lost being found is fine, but bringing back the dead brings more trouble than anything no matter how good the intentions are.

[grim]

Does it?

Not in my experience.

[ Grim. And... yep he just admitted bringing someone back to life, but in what context?]

This isn't the same world. The consequences will differ, and not always in a good way.

Yeah, but it's not going to be the same as for you, or for Lloyd and Mithos. Already, people in this world are brought back to life when they've died unfairly! And... yeah, I'll admit, there's something weird and wrong about it. But as for me, I'd rather find a way to bring someone back to life than leave 'em dead, that's just my personality. I don't... I can't put a price on someone's life, can't decide when a consequence is too terrible, when it's already worth more than anything! I guess the only thing that'd stop me if they'd come back and they weren't really themselves, so it wasn't saving the same life at all!

[ I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THIS. ]

Would you bring someone back if they don't want to come back?

Yeah. Someone who'd rather be dead than alive... something like that is way too sad! I'd bring them back and have them treasure the life they got!

Re: Scenario One

justaking - 2012-11-23 10:43 (UTC) - Expand

So you'd decide when someone's died fairly or unfairly instead, huh? And what they'd want? Maybe sometimes it's possible the way you're saying, the way it is here, but don't decide that not doing it that way for every situation is not valuing life just like that!

[SO DO I!]

And you think your way of deciding things is any better, that you ca say it's valuing life? As if! At least I'm preferring life over death here!

Re: Scenario One

brotagonist - 2012-11-23 10:48 (UTC) - Expand

*nope nope nope*

Nimue, what would the price be for bringing back the dead? The lost?

"You cannot!"

A long pause.

"You should not. That is powerful black magic, that corrodes their souls. They will never truly live."

"They will never truly be the person they once were. In the end, they will never find peace again."

*...unsurprised.*

Not that, guys.

So like low-level zombies? That'd only be useful for revenge on the country that destroyed the kingdom.

No zombies! Can we just stop talking about zombies?!

I get it. So we can't restore the kingdom. So we memorialize it.