Possible way out of the V.Q. Problem

[Cainehill]

Someone else mentioned how other SC pretenders wind up having to retire to the laboratory after a while, while the VQ doesn't.

Why does immortality heal all wounds? I thought that was what recuperation was for. I mean - you come back from the dead instantly, AND you heal wounds?

Mythology, folk tales, all those have lots of instances of beings obtaining immortality. And finding out that immortality is a curse - living forever after a hand is crushed, an eye is lost, reduced to a suffering heap of flesh that only wishes it could die.

If the VQ and other immortals had to obtain the Chalice, the high level Nature spell, or whatnot, they might not be so unbalanced. A blind crippled armless VQ isn't so scary, now is it?

(And this highlights another thing that is basically ... dubious, that way that most pretenders wind up cripples. C'mon! They're on the verge of godhood!)

Either immortality shouldn't heal wounds, or all pretenders should have a slow form of recuperation.

Edit : And of all the immortals, I'd say the VQ was still the most broken - all others have some fairly heavy weaknesses. The bog mummy and the lichs have vulnerability to fire, the Phoenix is so fragile and so limitted in item slots / melee. By contrast, the VQ has no vulnerabilities (even though vampires were commonly vulnerable to sunlight, silver, running water, and yes, fire.

Side note : Are there really supposed to be two bog mummies for Jotunheim, one immortal and the other not?

[ May 03, 2004, 22:04: Message edited by: Cainehill ]