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Before we all head into the labyrinth, I figure we should have a level playing field for making calls about risk.
If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.
The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.
In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.
If you die here, apparently you don't stay dead. You're down for two days or so, then you resurrect wherever your body happens to be. So it's probably a nice gesture, if you see a corpse in the maze, to drag them somewhere not totally inconvenient to wake up.
The temporarily dead also come back fully healed of injuries, but the penalty is some kind of personal loss. Think scars, tattoos, a digit, possibly more intangible qualities, etc. I have no idea what the rules are on that, so if anyone has any useful speculation, consider the floor open.
In fact, if anyone is familiar with this kind of thing back in your universes, you're invited to share with the class. The more we know about resurrection in general, maybe the more we can figure out about how it works here. Bonus marks if you have first hand experience.
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Still. He didn't mean to make her feel bad, either. But that's a problem he can do something about. ]
You didn't imply that. I've just watched too many zombie movies where the guy who gets bitten hides it from the group and screws everything up in the third act.
If I came from somewhere where coming back to life wrong was something I had to be concerned about, I'd be worried about it too. I may be a night owl, but I do like seeing the sun from time to time, and eating brains? Not for me. And that's before even getting into having to deal with being vulnerable to radiant damage.
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[ Kristen, where are you when they need you? (Probably working out and avoiding talking to her goddess, as usual.) ]
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[ Classic 'forgot my wallet' type of scenario, really. ]
That said, I wouldn't mind having on-call blessing vendor around. I'd guess that's a more affordable service in today's divine economy.
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[ She does have a jacket with a pocket dimension inside it from which she can summon all sorts of things, but it does have a price cap rather far below the amount of gold needed for a revivification diamond. ]
Unfortunately, out of the members of my adventuring party currently present, none of us are any good at healing or blessing people.
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One of you is a fighter/bard and the other is a rogue, right?
If so, I've talked to them, and it sounds like you already have plenty of bases covered. But if it's something you need to balance your composition out, healing doesn't sound that hard to come by around here.
Which is interesting. Where I'm from, it's a rare power. Maybe Echo is looking out for us after all.
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I'm not sure yet how much this place will function like home. Who knows, maybe more cross-collaboration will be required of us, and we'll have to branch out as a party.
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Little does she know that in just a few days' time, she, Riz, and Fabian will be separated shortly into their journey into the labyrinth.]This resurrection you mentioned. I take it it's not at the hands of one of our fellow... I'm not sure what to call us. Captives? Representatives? Universal spokespeople?
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He takes a moment to process this, now that it's actually happening. ]
That's cool. Do you have a specialty?
[ It's easier to feign nonchalance over text, to Krouse's frequent relief. If they were going over this in person, he thinks he'd look a little stupidly over-interested. ]
And no. So far, the evidence is pointing at our wardens/municipal government/panel of judges. Someone else talked to Aurora about improving the quality of resurrections, and she acted like it was something Echo had authority over.
Which I guess doesn't rule out someone at our level being responsible, but they'd apparently be taking direction from higher up, so not much of a difference.
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[ It's much easier for Adaine to say that than to say "I'm the Elven Oracle," although it's just as true, if less specific. There are plenty of divination specialists out there, and being a diviner carries with it a lot less baggage than being the Elven Oracle. ]
So even if the person responsible is one of us, they're complicit in some respects.
That is, if there is even a person behind the resurrections at all. It could just be a magical property of this realm, that it whole cloth rejects death in some manner.
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That can't be easy.
[ Precognition never seems to end well for anyone who winds up with it. Maybe it's different where she's from, but he doubts it. ]
Like a planar environmental feature. That could track. It might be more of an upfront investment, but once it's running, it's a set and forget type of thing. An antivirus running in the background, except for dead people.
Less specifically disturbing than the idea of us having a mole in our ranks, more of an ambient unsettling implication.
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[ ... ]
...But, you didn't ask for my sob story. Sorry.
[ She doesn't usually offload on people she's only just met like this, but she's been under an alarming amount of stress lately. ]
Given the unheard of level of power it would take to bring us all here, from all points across space and time, and prevent us from leaving under our own means, I wouldn't put it past our hosts to have the ability to put forth some kind of auto-resurrection measure like that.
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So you basically have a mandatory job on top of adventuring high school, and that job is being the head of national future prediction.
And I thought having to pick up shifts at Burger King sounded like a pain. I'll make a note to revise my standards of teenage worker exploitation.
[ Or, roughly translated: that definitely does sound not great. ]
I'll go ahead and assume that asking if you can predict a way out of here is a stupid question, so I'll skip to asking if you've picked up anything unusual, magically speaking, whether or not it has to do with the resurrection thing.
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[ Boy, how she wishes she could get paid for her oracle work. Doesn't the Court of Stars know how expensive spell components are??? ]
The only unusual thing I've picked up is that this place is startlingly unmagical. And yet, there are measures in place to prevent or interfere with the magic that I can cast, as though certain spells are somehow abjured or otherwise countered.
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Not to give unsolicited professional advice, but if I were in your shoes, I might predict that the visions will be rapidly drying up if I don't start foreseeing some cheques clearing.
[ What are they going to do, kidnap her and keep her locked in a vault? ]
I heard something similar from someone else. But if they're keeping you from casting specific spells, but you can still access others, I'd think that implies some familiarity with the mechanics and the ability to manipulate them. Not exactly a skill I associate with computers.
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[ She's not sure when she'll next make it to Fallinel, but she's sure the only way they'll even consider listening to her is if the petitions them in person. Ancient immortal elves from the dawn of time are not exactly the phone call type. ]
No. Whoever or whatever is behind this place (Echo, maybe?) is certainly familiar enough with magic to prevent me from sending messages to other planes. Which hints at some kind of study or ability in the arcane arts.
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[ It's actually got a ring to it, but he's standing on teen employee solidarity. Everyone's bosses are dicks with stupid names. ]
And I guess that's another thing we can add to the list of unnerving possibilities. Archwizard tech genius alien that may or may not exist.
Or: another dead end. There's a striking oversupply of those. Still, it's worth knowing where they are.
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[ She's allowed to dunk on elves because she is one. ]
Good luck identifying all of the potentially-dead ends. Hopefully one of them might actually lead somewhere.
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[ It's a little validating to know fantasy novels aren't all wrong. ]
That's the hope.
And thanks. Appreciate the insider contribution. Mind if I get in touch to consult if the occasion arises?
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We may be ostensibly in competition with one another, but I do think it would be best for us to work together in some respects.
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Best of luck to you out there, one competitor to another.