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Who Is Ellen - 61 - HD
🕑 Added 2022-11-17 04:00:02 +0000 UTCThe stakes have never been higher.
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This is basically how I would feel in this situation. Nothing would stop me from saving that chicken, and it would get awkward as heck if for some reason we failed.
This is true in pretty much any roleplaying game, up to and including video games.
In Fallout 4, there's a moment in which a kid's cat has gone outside the safety of an underground bunker. There are basically literal monsters outside, so I consider it one of the most important missions in the game to complete.
All it involves is going outside, finding the cat relatively close by, and telling them to go home.
Which works.
I choose to think of it less as the cat obeying your command, and more the cat reacting with "who is this weirdo, I'm going home."
Also, the cat only gets out because the entrance to the bunker was opened to let you in, but I will not be blamed for that cat leaving. That cat was DETERMINED. You can literally close a door in their path, and they'll run into it, glitch into the air as the door opens for them, fall back down, and just keep going until they're outside.
That is all AFTER the cat went up an elevator.
If they hadn't opened the multi-ton mechanical entrance to the bunker to let me in, that cat would've opened it to get out.
Comments
Windscion
So you are saying the mayor spirited the chicken away and is covering it up?
Foradain
This revelation (about the possibility of sacrifice) reminds me of what Mercedes Lackey wrote of Aztec traditions in "Burning Water": The prospective sacrifice is treated like prince for the year preceding the Big Event. So this implies that the time for the Big Event is nigh. Work fast, Heroes! BTW, in"Burning Water", the sacrifice of the prince-substitute was preceded by a year of other sacrifices, starting with animals and building up from there. So if you can't save Maribel, be prepared for things to get worse if the campaign continues.
John Trauger
That is so EGS: the gaming party comes together as a team...over a chicken.
AstroChaos
Indeed... my cat is even named Pixel
Windscion
This is basically my reaction to Covenant (Fallout 4).
Opus the Poet
You have to ask?
We, uh, had an unintended party... Wipe is wrong, but right in that our game had a hard stop, earlier than the DM planned. All because a town sacrificed a boy and his mother. I was the moral compass (for lack of better words) of our party, and I encouraged (hell, ordered!) wiping the village
Dan Merget
Heinlein reference?
AstroChaos
Oh yeah!
AstroChaos
No, only your joke. (What do you mean I made that pun earlier and have no room to talk? You can't prove that!)
AstroChaos
Nah.. the cat wouldn't have opened the bunker doors. He wouldn't have needed to. He could have just walked through walls. It'd be especially easy if no one had ever taught him that he couldn't do it.
wargrunt42
If they're too late and find the chicken's carcass atop a sacrificial alter, would that make it fowl play?
Stephen Gilberg
Gee, maybe the hen will save herself too. I like to picture one busting through walls.
