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[scriver]

I mean I was just trying to make a joke about arguments being like fights but you know. With sissy wind noices instead of actually fighting one another

[Kagus]

I mean I was just trying to make a joke about arguments being like fights but you know. With sissy wind noices instead of actually fighting one another

Didn't your parents ever tell you? They're not fighting, they're discussing!

Now go to your room.

[Lord Shonus]

Is there any death more honorable than that in the direct service of your god, delivering their literal message to its destination?

It isn't about honor, its about the technicalities of how you die, if you die with amazing honor peacefully in your bed... you go to hel.

If you die from an arrow in the skull after you broke into someones house and started murdering their puppies you would presumably go to valhalla.

Now, the technicalities are vague given that we see scenes of the gods arguing over who should go where, but both Thor and Hel have pretty reasonable arguments about where he should go based on the fact that an enemy killed him vs him not dying in actual battle.
Personally I would argue that Hel has a better claim, but I'm not sure how it will play out given neither Hel or Thor are going to be willing to give up on his soul.

The Giant has gone into this on the forum, and you have to be acting honorably when you die. He specifically calls out "a politician being assassinated for his policies (as long as he intends to do what he says) and "freezing to death while trying to get food to a starving village" as honorable.

With that in mind, it is easy to parse the logix.

When Hilgya killed him, Durkon was trying to do The Right Thing and make up for an earlier lapse in character. Thus it was an honorable death.

Similarly, if he dies here it will be as a result of him honorably carrying out a mission given by his god. Thus honorable.

[hops]

Also, it'd be awfully rude to claim the soul of your uncle's cleric.

[Enemy post]

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[MagmaMcFry]

Durkon can throw some sick burns under pressure.

[Egan_BW]

Minrah! :D

[scriver]

Minra is bestra

_fizzle

[Egan_BW]

This is actually one of the few circumstances where "what would thor do" is very applicable to the situation.

[TD1]

Durkon can throw some sick burns under pressure.

Who is this Durkon? Surely you mean Burn-on?

[Akura]

Redcloak: "I propose: Implosion."

Durkon: "I call my proposal 'Giant Dwarf with a Hammer.'"

[Rolan7]

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Huh, I always assumed Animate Object was an out-of-combat and arcane spell, not a weird quasi-summoning divine spell.  Could be getting confused with Awaken, and maybe some arcane spell I can't recall.

[Lord Shonus]

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Huh, I always assumed Animate Object was an out-of-combat and arcane spell, not a weird quasi-summoning divine spell.  Could be getting confused with Awaken, and maybe some arcane spell I can't recall.

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Animate Objects
Transmutation
Level:    Brd 6, Chaos 6, Clr 6
Components:    V, S
Casting Time:    1 standard action
Range:    Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Targets:    One Small object per caster level; see text
Duration:    1 round/level
Saving Throw:    None
Spell Resistance:    No

You imbue inanimate objects with mobility and a semblance of life. Each such animated object then immediately attacks whomever or whatever you initially designate.

An animated object can be of any nonmagical material. You may animate one Small or smaller object or an equivalent number of larger objects per caster level. A Medium object counts as two Small or smaller objects, a Large object as four, a Huge object as eight, a Gargantuan object as sixteen, and a Colossal object as thirty-two. You can change the designated target or targets as a move action, as if directing an active spell.

This spell cannot animate objects carried or worn by a creature.

Animate objects can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

[Egan_BW]

You know, a good old Zone of Truth could maybe have helped a lot here.

[Akura]

Zone of Truth is easy enough to save against. Far, far easier than, say, Implosion, assuming it's not prepared as a Heightened spell. Probably why Redcloak went to such extreme lengths when interrogating O-chul; there's probably nothing in the multiverse that can compel someone to give information that someone with a good enough Will save can resist. Might also be why Cliffport doesn't allow divintation magic in its criminal proceedings.

It's also not likely to be a spell a cleric engaged in multiple, Epic-level combat encounters for weeks on end would reserve a spell slot for, Heightened or otherwise.