D&D defines creating animate, inherently malicious vessels of anti-life as evil. Animating the body also disrupts the soul in some manner.
You’re redefining the spell to suit your argument. But even for the spells that do paralyse the target, inducing locked-in syndrome is not evil unless you’re using it on the wrong people or for the wrong reasons. If some bandit is trying to kill innocent people or steal innocent people’s property, they have forfeited their freedom. Or are you going to start calling all prisons inherently evil too?
Windstriker would technically be considered living, since he has a Constitution score. The only D&D creatures that don’t count as living are undead, deathless (like undead only good), and (most) constructs.
Yes. I know. I think it’s silly. That was the whole argument.
How am I redefining anything ?
If only the poopyheads who penned the Bill of Rights had known ! That would have saved so much hassle
And no, I’m not a fan of prisons in general, even though I understand they’re a necessary evil. That being said, if you see no meaningful distinction between being confined to a cell and being robbed of your entire self, I’m not quite sure what to tell you. Would you be in favour of icepick lobotomies for inmates ?
To tell the truth, padded envelopes with magnets inside are FAR more likely to get stuck to the side of the parcel-sorting machine. The OCR software that directs the individual packages to their destinations operates by scanning an image of the address, not the actual parcel itself. The cameras aren’t really vulnerable to disruption by the weak magnetic fields associated with refrigerator magnets. OTOH, during the singulation phase* of the sorting process, the padded mailers can very easily be on edge, and allow the magnets to stick the package to the walls between which the conveyor belts run.
*“singulation” being the process by which a huge pile of parcels is first placed into a single layer, then the individual parcels placed in a single file line.
Question about “prepared-type” spells: if a spellcaster doesn’t use them during the day following preparation, do they expire? Or do they have a shelf life?
No. Once you’ve “armed” a spell such that you can unleash it at a few second’s notice, the only things that will disarm it are death, firing it off, deliberately disarming it so you can prepare another in its place and a few specific anti-magic magics like Spellthieves.
Berlew’s intentions aside, is there any fan consensus if Miko would get a LG or CG (or LN, or whatever) afterlife? She’s told by Soon that her horse would visit her, but she did a pretty evil (or at least not Lawful?) act, and the Gods were pretty unhappy about that, so it doesn’t seem settled to me that she gets the same alignment afterlife as the horse. Maybe Windstriker can portal to wherever Miko actually ends up, “as much as he is able” ?
Well, if it helps, back when the Crack Pairings thread was a thing that wasn’t banned forever and back when I read fanfic, there was a Roy/Miko fic that had them both in the LG afterlife, and it seemed pretty plausible.
Hmm, I can’t help but think the Bureaucratic Deva (AKA “Ms. Being of Pure Law and Good”) in this strip might have some tense words with Miko before that could happen. That also seems plausible.
Here are the descriptions of various D&D alignment-based afterlifes:
While Miko’s horse Windstriker probably resides in the LG Mount Celestia, it seems clear that Miko won’t make the cut. I’m not sure where she would go though.
Keeping her lawful alignment and dropping down on the evil dimension puts her in:
Arcadia, The Land of Perfect Order, “A peaceful place where all live in harmony; consequently, it is quite dull.”
Dropping down another level:
Mechanus, LN, “This clockwork plane is the ultimate in order; scholars and constructs live here.” Hard to imagine Miko there.
Dropping down another level:
Acheron, LE, “A plane of constant, pointless war, where identity is forever lost.” That seems a little much.
Maybe Miko could apply for the CN/CG,
Ysgard, “The eternal battleground where true heroes prove their valor.” That seems more like her style. I suspect it might require some adjustment: that sector is also favored by rogues.
If karma bit hard, I suspect that she might end up in CN Limbo, “An alien, anarchistic and unpredictable plane.” Where else might the delusional meet their end?
I think Miko’s alignment violation was on the ethical, not moral axis. She legitimately thought she was killing an evil doer. She was wrong, but that doesn’t make her act evil. However, she decided to take matters into her own hands, and kill the man she was sworn to protect, rather than let the legal system work. Which is a chaotic act.
