Sorry your Hexgates attempt to hack Amazon delivery didn't work out, Viktor. It's tough in Techmagic Valley.
On a serious note: re Viktor's incapacitation. I can offer the following options, and you can have a think and follow up regarding what you think works best for him.
1. play it by ear: hitch a cart ride, get a royal steed, a helping hand with transport on an as-needed basis. I'm happy to equip him with a donkey or an especially considerate NPC who can be his caretaker in Ke-Waihu. Yes, he can boss the NPC and probably abuse them for "off-the-books" research purposes.
2. Instant cure: we have some healers in Ke-Waihu, including some... very dodgy witches, and they could help a fellow out, for a not-so-modest fee. The con here, in my books, is that you are playing what seems to be a very raw character, and you'd be crippling his motivation.
3. Cure dosages that delay or partly or transiently heal his sickness: again, see above healer and witches. We have some great PCs too! He'd be dependent on continually taking doses to Stay Alive TM and therefore he'd retain the hunger to persevere and work hard and... do all this really shady stuff he seems to like doing.
4. Working out a longer quest that would require him to gather research or cure elements and fixing his own cure.
Pros: he's personally involved, it's research, his jam, loving it.
Cons: he'd need to keep on top of it, it could sometimes put him at odds with some of his team mates who have... more pressing survival priorities... and you'd still need to probably give him a temporary cure dose of some kind, now and then, while he's working. So you're looking at a combo of 1 and 3, too, basically.
Anyway, you have a think and come back whenever on this. The application is otherwise accepted. Now, please pick from of a list comprising pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony/drunkenness, wrath and sloth/indifference:
— two sins that will form the basis of his ancestral curse inherited from a villager of Ke-Waihu
— the sin you think he is guiltiest of
Please try to choose different sins.
...and for God's sake, he can have a second handkerchief.
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On a serious note: re Viktor's incapacitation. I can offer the following options, and you can have a think and follow up regarding what you think works best for him.
1. play it by ear: hitch a cart ride, get a royal steed, a helping hand with transport on an as-needed basis. I'm happy to equip him with a donkey or an especially considerate NPC who can be his caretaker in Ke-Waihu. Yes, he can boss the NPC and probably abuse them for "off-the-books" research purposes.
2. Instant cure: we have some healers in Ke-Waihu, including some... very dodgy witches, and they could help a fellow out, for a not-so-modest fee. The con here, in my books, is that you are playing what seems to be a very raw character, and you'd be crippling his motivation.
3. Cure dosages that delay or partly or transiently heal his sickness: again, see above healer and witches. We have some great PCs too! He'd be dependent on continually taking doses to Stay Alive TM and therefore he'd retain the hunger to persevere and work hard and... do all this really shady stuff he seems to like doing.
4. Working out a longer quest that would require him to gather research or cure elements and fixing his own cure.
Pros: he's personally involved, it's research, his jam, loving it.
Cons: he'd need to keep on top of it, it could sometimes put him at odds with some of his team mates who have... more pressing survival priorities... and you'd still need to probably give him a temporary cure dose of some kind, now and then, while he's working. So you're looking at a combo of 1 and 3, too, basically.
Anyway, you have a think and come back whenever on this. The application is otherwise accepted. Now, please pick from of a list comprising pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony/drunkenness, wrath and sloth/indifference:
— two sins that will form the basis of his ancestral curse inherited from a villager of Ke-Waihu
— the sin you think he is guiltiest of
Please try to choose different sins.
...and for God's sake, he can have a second handkerchief.