Good thing you can heal!
"Ow..." you wheeze out, more because you feel you should than from actual pain. "Well it's not a zombie... yay." You punch the air with your not almost severed arm.

"Divines Fast...." Diana gingerly touches the edges of one of the holes in your chest. "A-Are you alright?"
get off the trap
"It's a suit of armour Diana, I doubt Fast can feel pain." Morlia doesn't need to be so scathing and Diana glares at her. "Look one of us would be dead from that or screaming in agony. Is it doing either of those? No, therefore it can't feel pain."

"Uh, ladies, kinda lying here with holes in places I don't want to have holes and I'm down one arm. Healing, please." You do not want to find out that despite a lack of blood you can still somehow bleed out or something. Actually you picked up that healing spell in town didn't you.
Get Off The Trap!
"See that's what happens when you don't pay attention. Luckily I am a daedra with a healing spell! F-beeep you injuries I have magic!" You wiggle your fingers like you remember the guy selling it did. A double helix of white and blue light spirals up and down your body.

Some of the holes look slightly smaller. You focus angrily on the holes in your body, wiggle your fingers and will them closed with all your might. A couple close up and you can sort of feel your right hand. There are a couple of lumps of jagged irregular crystal have formed where the holes used to be and you can see more around the edges of your almost removed arm.
GET OFF THE TRAP!!
That's odd but...GET OFF THE BLOODY TRAP!!...you should really get off the platform now. You obey the increasingly loud shouting in your head and roll off the platform, shedding that weird crystal as you do. Morlia sighs and puts her hand, carefully, on the tattered crystal around your arm.

"Divines only know why this even affects you." She mutters and closes her eyes. White and blue light, considerably more effective than your own attempts, spirals over you closing holes as it passes. Once she removes her hand you feel just as whole and fit as you did before.

You get up and....

Leave the ruin, remaining here will only get you killed and harm the cause of ord-

No! God no you are not leaving! What about the sweet loots? The deep mysteries of the Ayleids? The Welkynd ston-

Leave the ruin. Leave the ruin. Leave the ruin. Leave the-

"I said no damn you order-boy!" You shout hands pressed to your head, almost every voice you can hear denying the impulse to abandon the ruins.

"F-Fast are you okay?" Morlia asks tentatively, she looks scared her face pale and her eyes too wide. Diana's hugging the elf and hiding a little behind her. Either you said something when order-boy had control, you don't think you did, or that last thing you said freaked both of them out.

"Fine... I'm fine, just had a little disagreement up here," you tap the side of your helmet. "Nothing to worry about, now let me just...." You draw your sword and jab the platform. It triggers, sending the corpse spike-wards once more. It falls and before the trigger can reset you grab the body by the nearest limb and pull it off the platform.

Right. You shake the mummified corpse a bit and nothing falls out. A quick search reveals nothing. You grab some of the dead flesh, probably useful for potion making, and lop off the head.

You pick up the severed head, to a disgusted sound from Morlia, and chuck it overarm at the Welkynd stone. You hit it dead on and it falls to the ground and thankfully doesn't shatter on impact. Go you.
Where the jagged crystals fell off you they seem to be taking root.

[ ] What now?
 
Okay that sucked

[X] ask to take a break for a bit
-[X] put the mental beat down on Order boy

SCREW YOU ORDER BOY this is our body now!

This update proves it guys we need to break him now! I'm not going to risk sharing a brain with this guy!!
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[X] cast heal as much as possible and if our friends can't heal us as well
[X] Investigate the glowing crystals
 
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Okay that sucked

[X] ask to take a break for a bit
-[X] put the mental beat down on Order boy

SCREW YOU ORDER BOY this is our body now!

This update proves it guys we need to break him now! I'm not going to risk sharing a brain with this guy!!
So... You want to beat down on Order Knight because he doesn't want us to die randomly while searching around in a ridiculously trapped dungeon for a few coins? Really? More power to Order Knight, I say! At least his write-ins aren't inane and/or suicidal (except for that one where he was suggesting acting as if we had all of the reserves, despite no other Order Knights probably being awake at this time. That was silly).
 
I advise against this course of action. I am Daedra, my physical form is merely an expression of my being. Should my being be damaged directly it could mean the end of us. Permanently.

The event was not caused solely by me. Your own dissonance and unordered thoughts are the true cause. I have no more power here then any of you.
 
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You pick up the severed head, to a disgusted sound from Morlia, and chuck it overarm at the Welkynd stone. You hit it dead on and it falls to the ground and thankfully doesn't shatter on impact. Go you.
Where the jagged crystals fell off you they seem to be taking root.
[ ] What now?


Ummm, GUYS! we might have a problem!
 
So... You want to beat down on Order Knight because he doesn't want us to die randomly while searching around in a ridiculously trapped dungeon for a few coins? Really? More power to Order Knight, I say! At least his write-ins aren't inane and/or suicidal (except for that one where he was suggesting acting as if we had all of the reserves, despite no other Order Knights probably being awake at this time. That was silly).
^This
Ummm, GUYS! we might have a problem!
That was my vote.
 
I advise against this course of action. I am Daedra, my physical form is merely an expression of my being. Should my being be damaged directly it could mean the end of us. Permanently.

The event was not caused solely by me. Your own dissonance and unordered thoughts are the true cause. I have no more power here then any of you.


Your gaining the power to influence our actions again enough so that it's showing up outside of our head. I'll be having none of that!

I'm not going to destroy you I'm just going to push you back into the mental hope you crawled out of so you can't take over.
^This

That was my vote.
I'm okay with looking at the crystals but order boy is due for being pushed back he's gained power and influence since we started and I don like that.
 
Your gaining the power to influence our actions again enough so that it's showing up outside of our head. I'll be having none of that!

I'm not going to destroy you I'm just going to push you back into the mental hope you crawled out of so you can't take over.

I'm okay with looking at the crystals but order boy is due for being pushed back he's gained power and influence since we started and I don like that.
You know what? Order boy has some more power because we agreed with him. And every time he is acting non-sucidal compared to the other votes, I will continue to agree with him. Just because Order votes for something doesn't mean we discard it out of hand.
 
[x] Pick up crystals and stuff in the corpse's neck
-[x] Position the corpse on the trap so it doesn't retract or just keeps activating.
 
You know what? Order boy has some more power because we agreed with him. And every time he is acting non-sucidal

Word of GM states that him gathering to much power is a Bad end even if has non sucidey ideas we have others who can come up with ideas like that.

We really don't Need his voice in these discussions. I say we kick him back to where he was before we dragged him up.
 
You know what? Order boy has some more power because we agreed with him. And every time he is acting non-sucidal compared to the other votes, I will continue to agree with him. Just because Order votes for something doesn't mean we discard it out of hand.
I don't listen to Order Boy cause loot (what if we find better equipment here?), the simple votes that sap fun, and s/he leads to Jyg, who would probably kill us cause are special brand of insanity sounds like heresy.
 
Word of GM states that him gathering to much power is a Bad end even if has non sucidey ideas we have others who can come up with ideas like that.

We really don't Need his voice in these discussions. I say we kick him back to where he was before we dragged him up.
I don't believe that the GM ever said that letting him gather too much "power" is a bad end.
 
But his actions lead to Jyg, who I give a solid 90% chance of killing us on principal alone.
Contacting a Daedric lord is about as hard as contacting the SuperPresident. And this one is currently acting as his direct antithesis, so it'd be equivalent to getting an audience with the SuperPresident and then curing him of his insanity in a single go.

If Order Knight starts making with the Jyggalag calling we'll shut him down, but there's no way he's pulling that off in a single update, and we'll see it coming. In the meantime, he's acting more reasonable than most of the rest of you lunatics combined, and that's a good thing.
 
Your gaining the power to influence our actions again enough so that it's showing up outside of our head. I'll be having none of that!

I'm not going to destroy you I'm just going to push you back into the mental hope you crawled out of so you can't take over.
Only because people keep agreeing with him.

[X] Retrieve the Welkynd stone and hand it to Morlia, apologising for our earlier lack of coherence.
-[X] Continue to heal ourselves if not fully healed.
--[X] Draw the others' attention to the fallen and growing shards of jagged crystal, asking if they have ever seen or heard of anything like it.
---[X] Unless they advise otherwise, destroy the crystals before they have a chance to take root.
[X] Suggest continuing in deeper with our group.
-[X] Proceed at a measured pace, assiduously checking for traps, enemies and treasure.
--[X] pick up a stone, if we chance upon one, in case there are no severable heads near the next Welkynd stone.
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Contacting a Daedric lord is about as hard as contacting the SuperPresident. And this one is currently acting as his direct antithesis, so it'd be equivalent to getting an audience with the SuperPresident and then curing him of his insanity in a single go.

If Order Knight starts making with the Jyggalag calling we'll shut him down, but there's no way he's pulling that off in a single update, and we'll see it coming. In the meantime, he's acting more reasonable than most of the rest of you lunatics combined, and that's a good thing.
Bear in mind that doing as he asks and just leaving now will sow the seeds of a Bad End, unless I miss my guess.

Or rather, the seeds have already been sown.

Those jagged shards of crystal that fell from us are growing and taking root, and I suspect that in time they will grow into those order crystal things, and form a beachhead for Jyggalag. If we just leave now, they will have time to grow.

Still think he is innocuous?
 
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I think this is silly.

It is like saying because Stalin likes Oatmeal, everyone who like Oatmeal will become a Communist.

Just because Order Boy happens to agree with us, doesn't mean that it is automatic bad end
 
[X] Retrieve the Welkynd stone and hand it to Morlia, apologising for our earlier lack of coherence.
-[X] Continue to heal ourselves if not fully healed.
--[X] Draw the others' attention to the fallen and growing shards of jagged crystal, asking if they have ever seen or heard of anything like it.
---[X] Unless they advise otherwise, destroy the crystals before they have a chance to take root.

I think this is silly.

It is like saying because Stalin likes Oatmeal, everyone who like Oatmeal will become a Communist.

Just because Order Boy happens to agree with us, doesn't mean that it is automatic bad end

No, its more like since Stalin is advertising Stalin-Bran, a cereal with a secret formula known only to Stalin, and that the eating of which seems to lead to less of an interest in capitalism, that there might be something weird in the cereal...
 
[X] Retrieve the Welkynd stone and hand it to Morlia, apologising for our earlier lack of coherence.
-[X] Continue to heal ourselves if not fully healed.
--[X] Draw the others' attention to the fallen and growing shards of jagged crystal, asking if they have ever seen or heard of anything like it.
---[x] Pick up the crystal and continue dungeon-diving!
 
I think this is silly.

It is like saying because Stalin likes Oatmeal, everyone who like Oatmeal will become a Communist.

Just because Order Boy happens to agree with us, doesn't mean that it is automatic bad end
You may have missed my edit:
Bear in mind that doing as he asks and just leaving now will sow the seeds of a Bad End, unless I miss my guess.

Or rather, the seeds have already been sown.

Those jagged shards of crystal that fell from us are growing and taking root, and I suspect that in time they will grow into those order crystal things, and form a beachhead for Jyggalag. If we just leave now, they will have time to grow.

Still think he is innocuous?

His current advocated course of action seems reasonable on the surface, but carries the risk of leaving a bunch of order obelisks to mature.

It is this sort of insidious dickery (or just blind luck on his part) that makes it entirely reasonable to be highly suspicious- but not necessarily opposed to- anything the Knight of Order Proposes.
 
Bear in mind that doing as he asks and just leaving now will sow the seeds of a Bad End, unless I miss my guess.

Or rather, the seeds have already been sown.

Those jagged shards of crystal that fell from us are growing and taking root, and I suspect that in time they will grow into those order crystal things, and form a beachhead for Jyggalag. If we just leave now, they will have time to grow.

Still think he is innocuous?
Wait, wat? *checks* Yeah, I still like him, but we should probably not leave those to grow. Crystals are only fine when they aren't eating everything and all. Reminds me to much of ThaumCraft Taint, and that stuff is horrific to get rid of (funnily enough, I'd kill to get some order crystals to deal with Taint, it's just that it's a cure that nobody needs right now).
 
It is this sort of insidious dickery (or just blind luck on his part) that makes it entirely reasonable to be highly suspicious- but not necessarily opposed to- anything the Knight of Order Proposes.
Supicious? I agree. I just disagree with being automatically opposed to it without considering it.
 
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