#npc death

[boarix]

Ede and I share a collective WTF moment

Jeepers Creepers anyone?

[nymhsayshi]

That moment when you low key start shipping your character with an NPC...

AND THEY JUST KINDA FUCKING DIE

[morbiditea]

Day 18:

Day 18 of Whumplover's Whumpmonth. Click here to see all of my entries!

Prompts used: Sole survivor | Misplaced loyalty | Rescuing the enemy

Song: "I Hung My Head", Johnny Cash

CW: just a wee battle scene

Crucifer felt the weight of his countryman growing heavy in his arms, heavy as the blood slicking over his hand. His dagger was buried keep in the soldier whose breathing was ragged, uneven as Crucifer slowly lowered him to the ground. His eyes are fixed on the familiar face gasping back up at him, and he realizes that he's been recognized. Before the doomed man can say anything, Crucifer pulls the dagger free and slits his throat, spilling the hot blood of his own country across his hands. The profanity of it stunned him, but he pushed it down and threw himself back into the throes of the battle.

His back ended up against Tower's as he parried a blow, rescuing his enemy from a stab in the back. The irony of it weighed heavier on him than the taste of blood in his mouth as he panted, continuing to fight his way through their assailants.

Crucifer was distracted, right up until the moment he realized they were standing in a pile of dead. The implications of what they had done crashes down on him, swallowing him up whole. Tower nearly ran into him, looking him over head to toe for signs of injury. Finding none, he wrapped Crucifer up into a tight hug of relief. It only served to reflect the vice grip of the guilt that has Crucifer by the throat. Even as he returned the embrace, the shame of what he was doing, the misplaced loyalty Tower held for him threatened to cut off his airway.

What kind of man was he?

[voix-de-paris]

Lt. Col Guymart Rigal

Rapport de Décès Lt. Col. Guymart Rigal 1598–1625

[kittenlzlz]

JF IF DKSS HHHHH killed TWENTY goddamn guards saving one citizen. I guess It was on a patrol path, I'd kill one and then more would just join! I didn't want to massacre them!! T.T and when I tried for a picture two more came up...

[brinteylovesaliens]

I feel bad for Ken, since they hook up in the 3rd gane, but I never liked Gabby so I'm kinda glad she died in this PT.

[cattusvault]

Last night’s session involved us running for two hours to get to a hamlet that we saw was on fire. Our party arrived at the edge of the hamlet where a bridge connected that area to the side we’d been on, and discovered a line of guards from the city we were working for, completely slaughtered, along with a few villagers who had tried to run from what seemed to be the attack.

We moved into the hamlet, passing a lot of people running back and forth trying to put out fires, bodies strewn here and there, burned, riddled with arrows, crumpled in all sorts of piles. And then we heard a woman yell “But she’s still inside!” And without pause, myself (Earth Genasi Barbarian), our human life cleric, and our tiefling caster all ran inside a burning shop. The cleric used her ray of frost cantrip to cool the shop while the tiefling and I searched for whoever was inside, struggling at first before locating a small child and her cat, both terrified. We barely managed to convince the girl to come with us, telling her that her mother was outside waiting for her, as we had assumed that was who the woman was, and rushed the two out to safety. 

When we got outside and passed the child and cat off to the woman, we heard her say “Where’s mommy?” We were shocked when the woman confided in us, away from the girl, showing us where the mother lay near the building’s entrance with three arrows in her back. Our cleric rushed over to cast healing on the woman, but it didn’t stick. And that’s how our party became firefighters and I lied to a kid!!

[hiroshimishima]

What's the point in being Dragonborn if you can't kill people like Calixto before the kill a bunch of innocent NPC's? I mean, there are several instances where you CAN stop murders before they happen - such as Margaret in Markarth - but these moments are far and few between. It's especially frustrating when certain killers are marked "essential" in the coding and therefore invulnerable even if you could get there in time. Skyrim is beautiful and I live playing the game, but it holds so many things just out of your reach, leaving you as a helpless onlooker. It angers and frustrates me something awful. I know it shouldn't get to me so much, but it does.