The "How Would Your Character Die" Thread

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A thought that was thrown around in chat was "How would your character die, theoretically, in game?"

So, morbid topic though it is, it's kinda an interesting one to throw around. If your character were to die in game, what kind of send off would you want to give them? How would they go out? What would they think about it?

Go nuts!

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Lafiel: Duty above all else. Lafiel will charge into battle and hold the line long past when she should have retreated. It's an Abriel trait, this stubbornness. Gibbering, unspeakable horrors and she will plant the mine that buys a minute from it. Her last thought before she pushes the little button is of Jinnto.

Sheeana: She's a sly one, tough as worm hide and silent as the sand at night. And she's an Atreides. That means there's at least a residual futuresense in her, even though she knows its dangers.

If it were something unexpected, she would laugh as it swept over her. The changer comes always!

If it was something expected, known, like Darwi's plan to control the Honored Matres, she would Share with Arha and any other available Reverend Mothers and go quietly to her fate with a blank expression and a minimum of fuss.

Yuri: This is a tough one. Yuri is innocent and twice forced into circumstances she finds strange and terrifying. The actual cause of death wouldn't be so important. That can happen in any way: an errant chunk of metal, a strange scratch, three days of bloated tongue and swimming sensation, that secret swimming hole, no you shouldn't touch it, the lights seem kind of insecure in this section...There's so many ways.

The effect would be the important thing. Yuri's death would show the crew that this really isn't a game. Even the perpetual gamesman, the snarkers and smirkers, would have to acknowledge that. Noone is immune. Noone has plot armor. Noone is too innocent.