Removing the parasite (not a spoiler)

[Drakken]

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

[Kabreras]

Tbh, this is how it would have ended in my tabletop party...
Nothing a good hammer and some magic can't solve

[K.I.L.E.R]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

Does this actually work? lol

tested it, and nope. :(
https://imgur.com/gallery/hheLlZ5

[GALynx]

Originally posted by Kruno Saho:

Originally posted by Drakken:

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

Does this actually work? lol

Probably wouldn't, as chances are that the body will be considered too damaged to be revived by "normal" means...

[Coffee Addict]

even if it worked theres still the matter of you with an open skull, its gonna take more then a health potion to close that wound

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Niki Lauda:

even if it worked theres still the matter of you with an open skull, its gonna take more then a health potion to close that wound

1/ If you can turn into a mindflayer at anymoment, you take the chance.
2/ You may need a resurection potion not a healing.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by Kruno Saho:

Originally posted by Drakken:

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

Does this actually work? lol

tested it, and nope. :(
https://imgur.com/gallery/hheLlZ5

Nice but the game was not expecting it imo. ;)
but nice try. ^^

[Drakken]

Originally posted by GALynx:

Originally posted by Kruno Saho:

Does this actually work? lol

Probably wouldn't, as chances are that the body will be considered too damaged to be revived by "normal" means...

So you can't be revived if you have been hit in the head by a warrior with a strengh of 18 using a 2 handed axe?

[BigJ]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Originally posted by GALynx:

Probably wouldn't, as chances are that the body will be considered too damaged to be revived by "normal" means...

So you can't be revived if you have been hit in the head by a warrior with a strengh of 18 using a 2 handed axe?

Wait until people find out the minotaur can throw you all the way to the bottom of the (funny place) taking a total of 64 damage...but you are fine.

[GALynx]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Originally posted by GALynx:

Probably wouldn't, as chances are that the body will be considered too damaged to be revived by "normal" means...

So you can't be revived if you have been hit in the head by a warrior with a strengh of 18 using a 2 handed axe?

In Tabletop? Depending on the DM, the one I rolled with probably will add in that said warrior will decapitate your head/split it right open, skull shattering and splintering, with the gray matter that is your brain going everywhere. To him, it wouldn't need to be a critical hit roll, it depends if the roll for damage exceeds your unconscious health pool. But I digress, usually, at that point, reviving in normal means wouldn't be possible, cause the character will straight up die right on the spot right after being revived. Other ways... well, you'll end up an undead instead.

In a game that doesn't have that, well... I will use the following thing that happened as an example when my Tav got pushed to her death into an ocean and drowned, she was still revivable despite the situation shouldn't allowing that. So eh...

[Drakken]

in game, only in game...

[GALynx]

Originally posted by Drakken:

in game, only in game...

Well, in game, take the following into consideration. You can earn a perma-debuff that cripples you for the rest of the game if you take one of the Act 1's "solution" to the problem. And there's no healing from that.

[Nigrescence]

Originally posted by GALynx:

Originally posted by Drakken:

in game, only in game...

Well, in game, take the following into consideration. You can earn a perma-debuff that cripples you for the rest of the game if you take one of the Act 1's "solution" to the problem. And there's no healing from that.

I didn't take that route, but to be fair, it's on you if you trust that individual. Everything around them screams that these are twisted bargains and false promises where the cost is not worth entering into a deal.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Drakken:

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

The first problem is the parasite is sat in your brain. Unless someone in your party is a qualified neurosurgeon you're taking a massive risk thinking they're going to be able to remove the parasite without damaging the rest of the brain; to say nothing of the damage the parasite has already inflicted, or could potentially inflict if it thinks someone is trying to remove it. Not much point wasting revivify if the end effect would be the same as raising you as a zombie.
Then there's the magic itself. Given you don't immediately die after being resurrected there's clearly some measure of healing going on with the spell. Which causes a problem, because at any given time the average human body hosts 39 trillion other organisms, some of which are parasites, some of which are essential to the actual functioning of said body. So even if your party does happen to contain a talented neurosurgeon capable of removing a parasite from the brain without damaging said brain, you're still running a risk that the revivify (or whichever other spell you use) decides that said parasite is actually one of those organisms that happen to be vital to the functioning of your body so helpfully 'heals' the missing part of your brain by recreating the tadpole.

[Drakken]

Originally posted by archonsod:

Originally posted by Drakken:

Open the skull of the character, remove the parasite, since the character is dead, use a scroll of revivify, problem solved.

The first problem is the parasite is sat in your brain. Unless someone in your party is a qualified neurosurgeon you're taking a massive risk thinking they're going to be able to remove the parasite without damaging the rest of the brain; to say nothing of the damage the parasite has already inflicted, or could potentially inflict if it thinks someone is trying to remove it. Not much point wasting revivify if the end effect would be the same as raising you as a zombie.
Then there's the magic itself. Given you don't immediately die after being resurrected there's clearly some measure of healing going on with the spell. Which causes a problem, because at any given time the average human body hosts 39 trillion other organisms, some of which are parasites, some of which are essential to the actual functioning of said body. So even if your party does happen to contain a talented neurosurgeon capable of removing a parasite from the brain without damaging said brain, you're still running a risk that the revivify (or whichever other spell you use) decides that said parasite is actually one of those organisms that happen to be vital to the functioning of your body so helpfully 'heals' the missing part of your brain by recreating the tadpole.

Sigh...

You are dying in the process of extraction, this is why you need a scroll of revivify.