I can has plotbus? No! Plotbus has ME!

[cygna_hime]

One session into this D&D campaign, and my character has already had his emotional strength and support stripped from him completely in the most brutal of possible ways.

This is gonna be fun.

Besides, when I signed up to be a paladin, I did explicitly agree to stand in front of a plotbus. So it's not like it came as a surprise, although I wasn't expecting it so soon. It's made more fun to play by the fact that my character has been a cheerful, friendly, confident person, who can recover quickly from any psychological damage--except this. Which means I will spend the next session being quiet, morose, and completely lacking in both confidence and self-preservation, prone to extended bouts of self-flagellation.

Mwahahah.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

How did he lose his emotional strength and support, out of curiosity?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

He fell. I don't know how much you know about D&D mechanics, so a brief explanation: a paladin is a paladin of a specific god. From this come various paladinly abilities, but there is also a code of conduct that the paladin must follow. Changing alignment (in the case of this variant, ceasing to be Chaotic Good), knowingly doing evil or lawful things, or grossly violating this code of conduct results in a paladin's fall. This means I lose *all* paladin abilities and spells, and can't gain any paladin levels until and unless I atone appropriately for whatever caused me to fall.

In this case, I'm not entirely sure what caused me to fall exactly, since DM Says So For The Plot was in effect. However, the point is that in one moment my character felt his paladinhood being stripped away--and the thing about being a paladin is that that's *all you are*. (If you so much as add a level of another character class, you can never advance in level as a paladin again.) It wasn't a crisis of faith--he knows his god is there, and his god *turned him away*. Thus the complete emotional crippling.

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Sounds like it should be fun, if angsty as hell. Sounds like all my flisters in undergrad doing D&D are having a great time at it - for me, wargaming has to be enough! Though it is fun, bombing the crap out of the US Navy's torpedo boats with my pirate fleet's aircraft carrier. ;)

[tigerdreams.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was interesting. That's going to be interesting. My character is going to have her hands full with attempting ineffectual damage control, isn't she?

Poor, poor paladin.

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

Yes. Emo ex-paladin is emo. I don't think you can actually improve that much. (I'd recommend finding a way to heal him after he does stupid shit. Which he will.)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

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