IncredibleBee

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The fun part of roleplaying is working out why a character might do something that seems out of character. Maybe it's a chance to relax. Maybe they regard it as a duty. Maybe it's relief that things aren't more dangerous, or even simply "I'll get in trouble if I don't". The whole fun of a roleplay is not being able to predict exactly what's going to happen or why.

@Raineh Daze

Yeah but like OOC there's little incentive to have your character choose a mission they don't know over an even they do know. And IC it's still a toss-up. Nobody knows what the vampire queen needs doing or how urgent it is, especially when there's already battles and stuff that might need their attention.

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This is a roleplay. There's a plot hook. Don't bite, no RP.

Answer: yes.

@Raineh Daze

Yeah but what if someone would rather bite a different plot hook? One where they know what they're getting into.
Like someone could go into the vampire queen one expecting to fight werewolves but instead they have to gather herbs. Y'know?

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Since he's in the UMMA, you have a few options. You can start on Yggdrasil(excuse being part of the force being assembled to help out the Queen who has appealed to the UMMA for aid, or responding to the murder in the lower levels), you can show up to help out on the museum world...

@VitaVitaAR

That reminds me. Should we expect many volunteers to help the queen if nobody knows specifically what task she has for us?

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Eh, I disagree. Especially if the first encounter never happened and we get a tech NPC instead.

@Raineh Daze

There's a saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Well, given that things are more being revised so that didn't happen, it's more 'so I have somewhere to put the character', with the benefit of ALSO covering the worst case scenario.

@Raineh Daze

I think that sending in another magic person after establishing Guts' distrust of magic is not a step away from the worst case scenario.

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Is it actually at that point yet though, or still in the 'setting up' phase? I haven't read the manga.

@Flamelord

The short answer is "Probably".

Guts' most recent kill in the story was the Sea God, so it's safe to assume the Dragonslayer is at or very close to anti-deity status at this point. Additionally, every kill on a magic being makes it stronger, so hypothetically he can kill anything after he kills enough things.

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She's immortal, so death is only an inconvenience. Unless his sword can cut through 'I cannot permanently die' magic.

@Flamelord

Actually the Dragonslayer is being set up in the manga specifically to slay dark immortal gods.

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More or less, she'd just be an obstacle if things did go wrong again, hopefully giving the NPC time to stop the attempted murder. Which hopefully they wouldn't. If not, Guts actually gets to interact with someone that has as much clue of what's going on as he does.

Do you think cutting Mokou in half counts as murder or assault?

@Raineh Daze

So the solution to an uneducated traumatized medieval guy who hates monsters attacking a magic recruiter for an organization he doesn't know about, is to send in an immortal bullet hell boss just in case he becomes aggressive again because the next recruiter did the exact same thing wrong?

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I'd also like to point out that the touhou you're sending in is remarkably similar to the NPC Guts just tried to murder.

Additionally, since Mokou's neutral herself, she has no reason to recruit Guts in the first place.

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Should I just have Mokou get Guts out of his totally-alone-in-some-random-place scenario? Also insurance in case the next NPC does something to get attacked somehow: be another target! XD

@Raineh Daze

I'd rather see the NPC Vita cooks up.

I'd wager a guess that "beat him retarded, hogtie him, and bring him in for recruitment" isn't the way to bring Guts into the game. I mean, that's what I did to him in Siberia, and that didn't work out either.

@Earnest Evans

This, pretty much. You can't just brute force Guts into doing what you want.