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He should have fallen on his sword. That would have been the sensible thing to do.
Punched his ticket for Elysium right away, no waiting around.
He thought they'd only kill him.
Why did he think that? How stupid was he? Why in the world did he think that?
And now instead of his next great adventure he's flubbed a save against dominate person.
<You can see what I show the gamemaster. What if I don't show them anything?>
I can still read your thoughts? Because, as you know, and as you know I know, and as you know I know you know I know, there is no such being as the gamemaster.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
You believe that I am a Numerian kasatha of the most peculiar character. For no particular reason, I behave exactly as you'd expect if I were an Earthling's player character in a game of Pathfinder Tabletop Role Playing Game. I have four companions, each of whom are the same. Exactly, I repeat, as you'd expect yadda dee yadda da. I have all the knowledge that adds up to a Numerian kasatha acting the way you'd expect him to if he was raised in a different world.
But all of that is just... random chance.
Sounds plausible.
YOU believe that! That is what YOU BELIEVE.
And you came up with "Pathfinder" after you'd already seen your life, so obviously it matches your life pretty well??
Lyvina Mayyad's imaginary version of Olivia Mallard thinks this is so dumb.
We should all fail our saves and get this over with.
...The other three are pretty much the same, though with their own twists.
...What are the odds that this is just literally true?
She believes that Altronus et all don't believe it. But, they wouldn't. The theory posits that they - coincidentally think things which cause them to act in the way that they would if they were Player Characters...??
No, definitely not that, if it were that you could remove the extradimensional beings and it'd strictly make things simpler. The theory is that they - have information piped into their brains, and then come up with thoughts to justify the conclusions that they'll come to... that should be visible to detect magic, and it isn't.
They could be some kind of shapeshifter with a forward-facing brain and one behind, and/or - the magic aura could be hidden - she's going to make them stand in an antimagic field and have them hit with true form.
It'd be kind of a nitwit play, though. If someone were hiding, you'd think they'd hide in a way that doesn't make people suspicious enough to antimagic and true form them.
So probably it's not that.
But there's definitely something fucky going on here, and none of them know what it is.
Further. They have a fake explanation for it. There is no reason to have a fake explanation for something except to conceal the truth.
Someone doesn't want them to know.
Or - doesn't want her to know? Doesn't want the truth to get out?
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