>>6014Gwen and Freya hold the record for being closest to permadeath, being that they are weeks away from anyone and no one will look for them. If you're eaten, you cannot be revived.
If you're crushed under many feet of rock, and the only diggers you know are already on an important quest, it would take some effort to convince them to come back and dig up the bodies of your friends.
[Ashley] no pickaxe, no strength, no clue when I could rescue your corpses.
You (Yulya, Cat and yourself) have a "good" chance of surviving this choice path you took but there is maybe 2 rolls away from a large damage source and potential death. I haven't made the rolls yet nor do I fully understand the trap yet, but "collapse" sounds serious, however this questline is supposed to be level 2-4. Death in that range is not uncommon.
We've discussed this before, we don't want to restart, and if Ashley is the soul survivor, she will do what she can to coordinate your rescue, since you're immortal, you two could borrow a cart to transport the bodies, find someone willing to perform the needed spell, etc. Assuming she is the only one, there would be a long story, probably a word document in a zip file, where she finishes off the giblins if she can, gets to the drawven brothers, begs them to do a little digging on the way, begs borrows or steals from some city that has priests to perform the spell to revive you all, and then you can go on from there.
If, big if, this happens, which is a possibility, it would only be a couple irl days to get to that point, so it's not so bad. Though she might also get arrested for theft or accused of murder or who knows what.
If there are no consequences for actions, there is no fun, this is what I know for certain.
[Ashley] yep, I'll toil away to get you guys patched up if it happens.