{"id":97383,"date":"2016-06-11T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/kuchenkat-lsunnyc-celynbrum\/"},"modified":"2016-06-11T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T14:43:54","slug":"kuchenkat-lsunnyc-celynbrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/06\/11\/kuchenkat-lsunnyc-celynbrum\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

kuchenkat<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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lsunnyc<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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celynbrum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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somethingdnd<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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lsunnyc<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context?<\/p>\n

You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a\u00a0\u2018kinda hurts\u2019 level of pain and you\u2019re physically whole, with the 100% expectation that you\u2019ll get back up and keep fighting whatever it was that struck you down the first time.<\/p>\n

You break your arm after falling somewhere and after you\u2019re healed instead of looking for\u00a0\u2018another way around\u2019 everybody just looks at you and goes\u00a0\u201cokay try again\u201d.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been fighting for hours, you\u2019re hungry, thirsty, bleeding, crying from exhaustion, and a hand-wave happens and only two of those things go away. you\u2019re still hungry, you\u2019re still weak from thirst, but the handwave means you have\u00a0\u2018no excuse\u2019 to stop.<\/p>\n

You act out aggressively maybe punch a wall or gnash your teeth or hit your head on something and it\u2019s hand-waved because it\u2019s\u00a0\u2018such a small injury you probably can\u2019t even feel it anymore\u2019 but the point was that you felt it at all?<\/p>\n

Your pain literally means nothing because as long as you\u2019re not bleeding you\u2019re not injured, right? Here drink this potion and who cares about the emotional exhaustion of that butchered village, why are you so reserved in camp don\u2019t you think it\u2019s fun retelling that time you fell through a burning building and with a hand-wave you got back up again and ran out with those two kids and their dog?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Older warriors who get a shiver around magic-users not because of the whole\u00a0\u2018fireball\u2019 thing but the\u00a0\u2018I don\u2019t know what a normal pain tolerance is anymore\u2019 effect of too much healing. Permanent paralysis and loss of sensation in limbs is pretty much a given in the later years of any fighter\u2019s life. Did I have a stroke or did the mage just heal too hard and now this side of my face doesn\u2019t work? No i\u2019m not dead from the dragon\u2019s claws but I can\u2019t even bend my torso anymore because of how the scar tissue grew out of me like a vine.<\/p>\n

Magical healing is great and keeps casualties down.<\/p>\n

But man.<\/p>\n

That stuff is scary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

shit just got creepy<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or maybe magical healing doesn\u2019t leave scars or damage. It is magical, after all.<\/p>\n

So after years of fighting, your skin is still perfect. Unmarred. In fact, you\u2019re actually in better<\/i>\u00a0shape than regular people who don\u2019t get magical healing when they fall out of trees or walk into doors or cut themselves while cooking dinner. You\u2019re in such good shape that it\u2019s unnatural.<\/p>\n

And the really<\/i>\u00a0good healing magic takes away more than just the obvious injuries. You first start noticing it after about ten years when you go home and haha, you look the same age as your younger sibling, that\u2019s funny.<\/p>\n

Not so funny ten years later when they look older. Or forty years later, when you bury them still looking like you did at twenty. When do you retire from this gig anyway? How much damage is too much damage?<\/p>\n

How many times do you glimpse the afterlife, or worse, how many times don\u2019t<\/i>\u00a0you? What do you live through, get used to, show no outward sign of except a perfectly healthy body, too perfect for any person living a real life.<\/p>\n

How many times are you sitting in a tavern with your friends and you hear the whispers, because the people around you know.<\/i>\u00a0How can they not know? Your weapons shine with enchantments and your armour is better than the best money can buy and there is not a damn scar on you. You hardly seem human to them.<\/p>\n

How long before you hardly seem human to yourself?<\/p>\n

And you find yourself struggling to remember the places where the scars should\u00a0<\/i>have been, phantom pains that wake you screaming, touching all the old injuries and finding nothing there. It\u2019s all in your head. Was it ever anywhere else?<\/p>\n

How long before you\u2019re fighting a lich or a vampire or some other undead monster and you wonder\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026what makes me so different?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here we go someone who GETS IT.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

@predatsu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

kuchenkat: lsunnyc: celynbrum: somethingdnd: lsunnyc: can we take a moment to just think about how incredibly scary magical healing is in-context? You get your insides ripped open but your friend waves his hands and your flesh just pulls back together, agony and evisceration pulling back to a\u00a0\u2018kinda hurts\u2019 level of pain and you\u2019re physically whole, … <\/p>\n

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