Awaken. The time for your service is at hand.

[SmartyPants]

Roughly 3 years pass with the hero in a trance. Needing a crack squad of soldiers to perform certain tasks, Tastidian decides that the hero may prove useful, and returns him/her to conscious awareness.

Before being "consciously aware", was the Hero a mindless tool like David in TRPG1?

[torugo]

i think when you put the bracelit on you were put in a suspended state

[Zhampir]

like in a trance or a coma.

[cyso]

The hero can choose to put the bracelet on when he finds it in the woods. However, Tastidan doesn't take control of the bracelet/hero until after they make the agreement.

[SmartyPants]

The hero can choose to put the bracelet on when he finds it in the woods. However, Tastidan doesn't take control of the bracelet/hero until after they make the agreement.

That is true, but that doesn't have anything to do with what I asked.

[cyso]

Either he spent all of his time in a comma, or he was a mindless tool.
If he spent three or four years in a comma, he would probably be too weak to move, so I say he was a mindless tool.

[SmartyPants]

Roughly 3 years pass with the hero in a trance. Needing a crack squad of soldiers to perform certain tasks, Tastidian decides that the hero may prove useful, and returns him/her to conscious awareness.

Before being "consciously aware", was the Hero a mindless tool like David in TRPG1?


This is more of a question for CraigStern, then it is for people to guess at.

[Tastidian]

Im pretty sure the hero was never a mindless tool but a slave force to battle because of the bracelet.

[Presentiment]

^and you mean?

[KZ]

Given how David was controlled, and from what Craig set elsewhere, we can be pretty sure that the Main was in the same state as David- a mindless shell. There is certainly no reason for the Main to be in any other state- as the Main was conserved for later use by Tastidian.

[CraigStern]

Most of the slaves taken from the Psy Academy had their minds hijacked and repurposed for scanning and obfuscation activities. That is what happened to David, and it's a pretty good bet that that is how the hero spent most of his/her time prior to being awakened. ;)

[Presentiment]

Oh, and that says something about the Nameless One, eh?

[CraigStern]

Why do you say that?

[Zackirus]

Most of the slaves taken from the Psy Academy had their minds hijacked and repurposed for scanning and obfuscation activities. That is what happened to David, and it's a pretty good bet that that is how the hero spent most of his/her time prior to being awakened. ;)

I think he is referring to that word right  there as thats what the Nameless One does!

[KZ]

I believe though that the Nameless One referred to obfuscation as something quite commonplace, done by all sides, so Shadowling captivity is hardly a requirement for knowing how to use obfuscation.

Thanks for clearing up the matter about the Main and the TRPG2 timeline, Craig!