| Sean_Powell |
I need help crafting an ‘out of body experience’ for a character. Our Android Rogue died to a critical hit from a wandering Gearsman while the party rode to Aldronards Grave. He was saved with a Cardio-Amp and spent the next day in a coma before the party traveled on. I want to use the incident for plot development BUT I’ve only read to the end of Lords of Rust and skimmed Choking Tower. I don’t yet know how Unity is or isn’t working with the technique league in Silver Mount or the exact role Casandalee plays later. I understand from other threads that Unity is working on Techno enhanced gargoyles but no other details. Could any DM’s with more adventure path knowledge proof this for me? I want to give a lot of confusing symbolism that will encourage further investigation without giving the answers away.
“Death isn’t supposed to look or feel like this. Death is just an end. It’s supposed to feel like nothing. It definitely isn’t supposed to be floating in blackness surrounded by stars. Is that what happens to androids who are killed instead of re-booting? Do androids float in empty space while humans travel to their various heavens?
Then again no one ever said anything about riding on the back of a giant beetle with drill-bits for legs through space and how is it walking forward if there is nothing to stand on?
The beetle looks up at the sky and you see a face on its forehead. Gears turn and the race rotates until it looks at you. A strange feminine voice surrounds you with one word. “Learn”.
Space is replaces with a light so bright it has flavor and a noise so loud it can be smelled. The light fades to mist and in the distant mist you see a wounded wolf trapped in a metal web and tortured by metal spiders. The wolf grows wings but they are bent and misshapen. It cannot fly away from its web and the spiders continue to bite. The wolf belches forth a white egg with turns into a swan and flies away to hide behind a wall of antlers. Again the wolf tries and belches forth a black egg after the swan but it turns into a black scorpion and also runs away. Then the winged wolf belches forth a rock which stays. The wolf kicks and scratches at the rock and with each swipe rock is removed showing metal beneath but the spiders continue to bite. The metal rock breaks and the wolf tries again and again, each time making a larger rock with more metal but each time failing to create the thing it desires.
The scorpion crawls into a hole. When it emerges it resembles a horned demon with a scorpion tail. The demon sneaks up behind the winged wolf and past the spiders. A shadow follows in the demons wake. The wolf is far larger but with one sting the wolf dies and is replace by the scorpion tailed demon. The shadow covers the spiders which stop attacking the demon and instead spread out across the land carrying shadows with them. The rocks grow arms, legs and wings, free the demon from the web and the shadows become infinite blackness.
The blackness appears to be the reflective surface of a giant beetle with drills for legs and a human face in its head. The face speaks again. “This must not happen. Go back. You have use.” Pain stabs into your chest and for the first time since wonder what death is you feel the very painful first beat of a heart.
You awaken on your back in the countryside north of Torch. Someone has peeled back your armor and Gemi has stabbed you in the chest with a syringe. You try to speak but only manage a feeble “Ouch” before falling back into a darkness that is decidedly not death and much more sleep.”
Thanks in advance,
Sean