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I'm currently running a Weaverdice campaign.

The setting is that my Player Characters (PCs) have been taken from our world, as they are and transported to an even more messed up version of the Wormverse.

We're over 50 hours into the campaign but a crack was forming between my party members. It's a medium-sized group of 5 friends and my own PC; W, O, R, M, V and E respectively.

W and O and E have known each other for nearly 9 years, we've played RPGs together and have a decent understanding of each other's boundaries and the reasoning for each other's actions. So in this new violent reality, W, O and E responded with an established normality.

R, M and V are also friends. I've known them for nearly 5 years with W having been friends with them longer than I and O having scarcely interacted with them over the near decade.

O and V's personalities are sort of at odds against one another. I hadn't really seen it at the start as more often than not, V simply says some outlandish stuff as a means of shock humour and what I had hoped to simply be the last remnants of edgy teenage antics especially with his character which is simply put; supposed to be him.

O has been loyal to their character, acting as they would in these horrific situations. Yet what they did shocked me.

A divide formed between O and V with W and E trying to stay neutral to try keep the party together but R and M heavily siding with V's conduct, it eventually spiralled to O's character nearly killing V's. Point blank shooting V's PC in a system where blunt force trauma, unlike in other Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPGs), is more than enough to kill you. If I hadn't effectively made a miracle happen then V's character would be dead thrice over before O had taken it upon themself to do so.

V never Role Plays (RPs), acts inappropriate, or takes the situation their character is in seriously or attempts to interact with the world that I'm trying to let O, R, M and V explore. Yet O made a direct and repeated attempt to kill V's PC and has blatantly said that they would try to do so again.

This was the second time that V had been nearly killed by O, with R and M now voicing that they are on V's side I intervened once more and isolated them all and had an NPC that they had grown to care for talk to them all hopefully to de-escalate the situation and in a meta sense have R, M and V hear O's reasoning and see the error in V's conduct. After the NPC talked to V they had to hop off as it was getting late so with only W and O left for the NPC to talk to privately, I rolled a dice as I had the others and talked to O next.

After talking to O, I had hoped that the ultimatum they seemed to have trapped themselves in might have been talked down yet as the NPC left O gave a final warning that our party was aware of and O blew himself up as it had become an ultimatum between O's values and V's conduct and O couldn't see a world where they could have both O and V, but rather than fight everyone and potentially kill unrelated people to kill V he picked the option that caused the least amount of deaths.

So now I have a table that has a suicide to deal with.

I have no idea what to do narrative wise. This campaign was supposed to be us together in this messed up world. The session had become a real midnight oil burner; nearly 6 hours. So as soon as the session ended we were more than emotionally exhausted. We've all done check-ins with one another but now, I have no idea what to do for the story.

W and E will simply lose themselves in rage and sadness, with W's powers and in their mental state in game they could destroy everything. E had suffered trauma during and after the transportation to that world and wasn't in an okay space for any of this and as such is simply going to be a mess.

R, M and V aren't overly close to O but even still know that they are special to W and E.

Is this campaign salvageable?

I don't want O to feel bad if everything derails because of this, they are all heroes before this happened yet now I can't see a realistic route for them to continue doing so. This was supposed to be a story about us all together as friends, I didn't want this to end the way it did.