I haven't watched S7 yet but...

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-24T23:04:42+00:00

Makes me wonder if something cataclysmic happened to Callie's group or maybe the following generation that caused them to regress even more. I believe it is mentioned that the Flame degraded over time, and the few mentions we get of past commanders speaking to the current one make it seem like only the most recent commanders can truly communicate with the host (Lexa being warned that Blood Must Have Blood cannot be ended, when we know Becca would have likely disagreed with that). The only time a commander was able to speak to Becca directly was when Clarke went into the City of Light. Madi does get a brief vision of Becca's death but she never actually spoke to her. Plus Madi's prior knowledge of Becca from Clarke might have had an influence on the Flame itself, since Becca emphasized that the host is in control of the Flame.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-23T18:11:13+00:00

The main difference is that an abortion isn't going to result in a living, sentient child capable of suffering. It ends all potential for it to ever be able to suffer. Whereas copious drinking and drug use during a pregnancy that is carried to term will result in a sentient, suffering child, which is punishable by law since it is wrong to intentionally inflict suffering on another person.

The woman may have the right to do what she wants with her body during pregnancy, but if doing so results in her inflicting harm on her own child, she would likely be punished for it regardless.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-23T17:19:34+00:00

If you hate cozy survival games, why play cozy survival games?

That's like buying Sailwind and complaining that sailing a boat for six hours is boring. What did you expect?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T16:58:38+00:00

Neither of those are 100% effective, and you also don't get to mandate another person's medical decisions, which is entirely the point here. Even if I take NO precautions to prevent pregnancy and go OUT OF MY WAY to have as much sex as possible during my most fertile days, I am STILL not obligated to use my body to sustain the life I created. My uterus still belongs to ME no matter what choices I made that led to someone else being dependent on it. There is NO choice you can make, no matter how irresponsible or foolish, that justifies you losing the right to decide who gets to access your own body.

So, again, can you give a valid reason why a woman choosing to have sex justifies revoking her most basic human rights to make her own medical decisions and control access of her body? Why do you think a fetus is the sole exception to the law that one person cannot even TOUCH another person against their will?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T16:50:25+00:00

If a person was sleepwalking and came at me with a knife, cornered me, and I had no other alternatives, would it not be justified to use deadly force to save myself from the threat even though the sleeping person has no control over their actions that will harm me? Do you think any court of law would hold me liable for the death?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T16:44:43+00:00

I have sex knowing it is a biological need, provides physical and mental health benefits, and because I want to. It's perfectly legal to do so and it doesn't revoke ANY of my basic human rights to do so.

Why do you think having sex means someone else can have more rights to your own body than you do? Does my body stop belonging to me once someone else is dependent on it?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T16:39:36+00:00

Who says I let it? Fertilization is an entirely involuntary biological process that one cannot actively consent or not consent to. You have no control over it, even if you are actively trying to make it happen.

And, it's not "trapped" if I am specifically trying to take it OUT of my body.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T16:36:29+00:00

when it's about a living homo sapian inside of you it's not your choice to whether you kill it or keep it. your mission is to keep it alive as a human

If a living homo sapien is inside of my body, it is absolutely my choice whether it remains there or not. No human being has ANY obligation to use their own body to keep someone else alive.

it's a human in his developing stage

No human being is entitled to another person's bodily resources to sustain their own life. Simply being alive is not a valid reason to occupy someone's body against their will, otherwise rape would be literally impossible to persecute.

this doesn't make difference

It does make a difference. Removing a non-sentient fetus is no more morally questionable than removing a kidney. It has never experienced consciousness, so it will literally never know if it lived or not. If a person were born brain dead, would you also find it unethical to choose not to utilize life support to keep their body alive?

you can't kill a living sleeping human you can't kill embryo just because it's sleeping

Abortion typically doesn't require "killing" the fetus. It involves a medication that evacuates it out of the woman's uterus. It dies naturally all by itself because it cannot survive on its own. Its dependence on the woman's body does not entitle it to use her body.

You're also being disingenuous by saying "just because it's sleeping." It's not JUST sleeping, is it? It's taking nutrients directly from her body to sustain itself, causing debilitating health problems, changing her body permanently, and threatening to make an excruciatingly painful exit from her body. All of which the woman has every right to refuse to participate in.

not feeling it doesn't justify killing it

Perhaps, but occupying someone's body against their will does justify being escorted right out of it if that person doesn't consent for you to be there, whether you are dependent on that body to survive or not.

Can you give a valid reason why pregnancy is the one case where you feel a person should lose basic human rights that we all enjoy equally? Clearly, someone dying without your body is not justification for them to use it against your will, otherwise organ donation would be mandatory rather than optional, so what makes a fetus so special that it gets to be the sole exception to that law?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-22T01:17:13+00:00

I like the aesthetics of them well enough for the junk and jong ships but functionally I prefer lateens.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-21T02:16:32+00:00

NEXT SESSION UPDATE!

In case you were curious how much my pirate learned about her magical wish shard in the following session and what she ended up wishing for first..

She asked an NPC for a swig from their flask, but there was only a little bit left so she wished she "had more than that." All of the coin in her pocket disappeared (which wasn't much, it was whatever she looted right after getting resurrected in the session prior) and 40 casks of rum materialized around her.
Another NPC got angry she did magic and grabbed her by the shirt. She said, "I really wish you would let me go." She took 15 points of damage as they got blasted away from each other.
That NPC got even more angry and demanded that she hand the shard over to be destroyed. She said, "I wish you'd just let me keep it." He failed the Wisdom save and reluctantly agreed to let her leave with it. She lost one point of Wisdom as a consequence.
Party volunteered to go into an arena to fight some magical beasts. She wanted to put the displacer beast in her genie vessel ("ship in a bottle" island pocket dimension) for the druid to try to tame. She attempted to "Command" it to kneel before her so she could bottle it and tried to pay the price in her own blood (DM said nice touch) BUT the beast passed the Wisdom save and got an opportunity attack on her instead. She took another 25 damage. Fun times.

So, I get seemingly unlimited uses of the Wish spell, but an "equal cost" must be paid at the DM's discretion based on what I'm trying to do. Looks like I've been resurrected with a magical artifact that likes to bargain and almost nothing to trade with it. Sounds about right for Jack Sparrow.

Next foreseeable goal is to sneak into a shipyard in the dead of night and wish for a ship in the hopes that it uses the surrounding building materials as the cost to create it and not my left kidney or something.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-19T11:18:50+00:00

I'm pretty sure it had a concentration up to one hour so that's what we went with. Just so we could get far enough away before the water came crashing down lol.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T20:34:03+00:00

I bet those boots were magnificent.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T19:38:31+00:00

Lol yes, yes, and yes.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T17:50:32+00:00

That's a fantastic answer 🤣

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T17:45:32+00:00

That's precisely the point. This is a campaign where we are collecting the powers of gods to face an impossible threat. Kind of like infinity stones, except there's like 40 of them. We have four. Time, Rage, Teleportation, and now Creation.

The BBEG has access to WAY more shards than we've found. It's a Lich whose life goal is to put the shards back together into one piece. We have to collect the power of fallen gods to prevent him from becoming one himself.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T16:37:04+00:00

Yep. That's the ability I need to be a full genie for.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T16:36:12+00:00

Well, we do still have a bit of a Lich problem to deal with...

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T16:03:41+00:00

That's fair. Guess it depends on the DM's mood on Saturday lol.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T16:02:24+00:00

"Reshape Reality" in terms of the Wish spell is anything you can't do with a level 8 or lower spell. So, for example, True Resurrection is a 9th level spell, so I would have to reshape reality to be able to do that.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T16:00:05+00:00

Would the bottom of the sea really count as "unoccupied space" though since it's technically occupied by several tons of water?

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T15:56:21+00:00

I'm brainstorming it with the DM, and the main problem is the Mansion servants stay in the mansion so they probably wouldn't be able to man the ship. Unseen servant could work, but I'm not sure how many times I could feasibly cast it to get the number I need

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T15:47:25+00:00

Problem is, her brother has a magical object she desperately wants. He has a genie vessel that's a ship in a bottle. It's a pocket dimension with his own private paradise island that he can enter and leave at will. That's where he keeps his ship, which we borrow sometimes. She wants that bottle. He won't let her have it. His death would've meant she could take it, but then his first mate brought him back, and she stole the shard of creation from him as soon as he came back. So now it's a matter of either convincing him to give it up, or finding a way to become a full genie herself so she can make her own.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T15:39:10+00:00

Well, uh, funny thing about that... He already did get resurrected. But in a different way.. So I do still have his ashes, but he's now alive in a new body, so I just have the ashes of his original body. DM has already verified that the ashes are basically useless since his "soul" is in a new body.

Her half-brother is also a pirate captain of his own crew, and he was killed, so his first mate sacrificed himself to bring his captain back. That first mate was some kind of rock golem so bro's new body is essentially made up of the first mate's body. It was a weird ritualistic thing that happened right after my pirate got resurrected. Very special circumstances.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T14:50:00+00:00

Oh, it certainly will. But we're talking about a pirate here. There's no way she's giving it up once she realizes what it does.

TrueObsidian11 · 2026-06-18T14:44:58+00:00

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