I "died". What now?

[skatche]

I was about eight hours in when I finally went to talk to the Harbour boss. I'd managed to pay my debt at the hotel, I'd got the body down from the tree (from which I'd scored myself a shiny pair of armoured boots) and the boss himself was kind enough to hand me my rent for the next night. Unfortunately, he also reminded me of my lost gun, and I lost my last morale point, with no way to recover it.

I'm of two minds regarding how to proceed. On the one hand, although I have my save files, that just doesn't seem true to the developers' aim. In a pen and paper RPG, when you're dead, you're dead (barring resurrection by other party members, etc.). And I'm the kind of weirdo who plays games on permadeath where possible even when they're not really built with permadeath in mind. On the other hand, the story was just starting to get interesting, and I feel like it would be kind of lame to play an amnesiac when I've already learned a fair bit about myself. On a third appendage, I'm not ready to call it quits on this game, as I was rather enjoying it.

Not really looking for a definitive answer here, of course, just thoughts from people who might have encountered the same problem.

[Yaldabaoth]

You heal. That's what you do. There's like 10 seconds time for you to click the heal button.

[figbyfigbyfigby]

Originally posted by Yaldabaoth:

You heal. That's what you do. There's like 10 seconds time for you to click the heal button.

And Press F1 if you need further enlightment.

[skatche]

I had no morale-boosting items, though. I did have one experience where I nearly died from lack of health, but I had a healing item, and it very clearly signaled to me that I should press the heal button. Not so in this case.

[figbyfigbyfigby]

Originally posted by skatche:

I had no morale-boosting items, though. I did have one experience where I nearly died from lack of health, but I had a healing item, and it very clearly signaled to me that I should press the heal button. Not so in this case.

I know the feeling about permadeath and as a pen&paper occasional player and DM I share it, but in this case I would just load the previous save, change direction, return to Evrart when I'm restocked on healing meds and solve the matter.

Restart only if you feel you would drastically change your character build, but even then you still have knowledge of the dangers of approaching Evrart, need to repeat already seen dialogues with the risk of killing the fun out of the game and had lost the previous hours of progress too.

The former case solves your problem, the latter doesn't and adds two more.

Your choice.

EDIT if you need general directions for restocking on meds, you'll find some in containers scattered all over Martinaise or can purchase them at Frittte for 0.90 reals a piece

[skatche]

Thanks figby, I was kind of fishing for someone to mention if there were maybe a built-in mechanic around dying that would make restarting a more viable prospect, but it sounds like there isn't. I'll just reload, but I'll wait a day or two so it still feels fresh.