Are they? It means you (MC) failed and died or whatever. Now you're loading from a save point so you don't make the same mistake. Just like in actual video games.
Shani dies in the Zone if you make the wrong choices.
Wow, really grasping at straws here... That's really the game you wanna use for this? Fair enough. Where is BaD unpredictable? Is it the convoluted way to get the right stats with some characters to proceed with them?
What fun is it if she's able to have you executed or made a slave? Or do you want that? You want us to have that huge of a branch in the story where we're no longer the stalker, but forced to be a gladiator? I mean, that'd be cool, but that's such a huge branch it would take forever to complete both branches.
Well.. it is an erotic adult game... what do you expect? She deny you and no one gets her? That'd be a waste of renders on a beautiful girl. I mean, you can kill Asani in the intro scene and that cuts you off from her erotic content for the rest of the game.
I'm not opposed to MC to take on battle damage, to need help, or anything like that... I just think we're not there yet in a story that is still in development. I don't know what's to come, I just think that all that's happening now is going to build up to a major event that will require MC to have allies... like the Queen, the mutants, the Hive, and the Raiders.
