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Ohhh, you know shit's got real when Nazir takes his hair down. He never takes his hair down, like, ever. Probably not even to wash his hair or sleep xD

So yeaaaah. I ranted about it on tumblr the other day, but at the weekend in the Black Griffon's campaign (with Dekker as my main guy), Nazir died - long story short, he went into a big battle on only 4HP, did pretty well until a giant snake thing took a chunk out of him and he went down. But he stabilised at -8HP (-10 = dead), which should have seen him safe. But during a quick retreat, the DM's character threw him 'to safety' down a drop, which destabilised him and saw him down to -9. One failed roll later (by 2 >.>), boom, dead. As deaths go, the DM PC, his ally, throwing him off a mini cliff is nooot what anyone wants. I may prefer Dekker over Nazir because Nazir's a bit bleh, but he's been part of the party from the beginning and it's coming up to three years in May.

On one hand, he's going to be revived, which is good because it's not The End for him. But on the other hand, he's going to follow the rules this time (first time he/any others died, they just lost some health), so he's going to drop a level. But since he's only a little bit away from level 7, as are the others, when he drops he'll be mid-level 5, which is almost half all his XP that's taken all those years to accrue, and he'll around two levels lower than everyone else. Which, in this kind of campaign, is Not Good. He'll be a lot more of a hindrance than a help being two levels lower than the others. Aaaand just before he was about to take a level in horizon walker and FINALLY he'd begin to be a little more interesting. But noooo.

So for this reason, the idea of dropping Nazir as a character is one that's in my mind. I don't want to particularly, but I foresee a lot of frustration on my part with him. In character, he'd never give up though - he's trying to prove himself, and giving up after dying (for the second time), isn't something he'd do. But for the sake of the rest of the party, I dunno. I'm very torn about what to do with him >.> I don't particularly want to replace him either, just because. But ehhh, no idea. I might just give it a go with him dragging behind, see what it's like, and if it is an obvious issue then I'll send him back to our base and relinquish control of him and probably just probably stick with Dekker if I'm allowed to just have one character >.>

I'll still carry on writing with him though, because everyone needs the strong silent type ;D


Pose ref'd from a stock image, as always/was an excuse to draw his back, because fancy tattoo that never gets shown ;D


Nazir Daq'ar belongs to me C:

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