That's the thing, if the nurse and Cornwall are smart, they won't even chance that happening.
First, how do you know this? Have you seen anything to show this?
Even if so, intelligence is not the only factor here, smart people do dumb shit all the time.
Autumn 'knows' it is wrong to do a lot of the stuff we are doing in the cafe. Yet, she is still willing to do it, because it turns her on to do the thing she thinks is taboo. She knows that she is going to get in trouble for it, and that it really could end badly (like her father finding out, and her getting excommunicated from her church, disowned by her family, her share of the cafe being take from her, and more), but she does it anyway, because it turns her on.
I see them as equal because both are forcing the person to do something against their will. This is another reason why my alternative is meant to be carried out by the MC unless Maria or the other elves ask to do it themselves.
So, forcing someone to wash their hands, is the same as forcing someone to cut off their hand, because both are forcing someone to do something against their will...? Really?
How is it okay for the player to force someone to do something against their will, and not okay for Maria to do it? This is pure hypocrisy.
How long death by a thousand cuts lasts depends on how strong a person's will to live is. If they have a weak will, they won't even reach a thousand from one elf let alone every single elf they've wronged. Death by starvation doesn't depend on how strong a person's will to live is, they will last as long as the body can keep functioning without food and it will not be pleasant for them. I typically don't like to do things this way, either, but it does come up on rare occasions where someone did something this severe.
No, it mostly depends on the skill of the person doing the cutting. I could make on cut that would hurt the person, but almost never kill them, no matter how many of those little nicks I make, or I could make one small cut in the right place, and they would bleed out rather quickly. The goal of this torture it to stretch it out as long as possible, if they die on the first day, you did a terrible job with your cuts.
Cornwall doesn't evolve because his power comes from those people who want him to treat the elves this way, the pro-slave majority, he won't find a better way as long as the pro-slave majority exists as it does now. I will admit the nurse is a whole new level of lower than dirt human, though.
He could retain power in other ways, and he knows this. He IS evolving on this issue though, and most of his early events show this, but it is a slow process, because it is the government, and these ides are "new" to them.
Same, I do like the building system, I just end up using it for practical purposes, or at least I did before my copy got modded.
I haven't played in years, but I stupidly let it update, and now all my mods are broken, and I can't use vats any more, so I gave up. Not like I have time to play games any more, and if I want to make something fun, I have Blender and Daz.
The purpose in this case isn't to win anyone over, the purpose is to exact revenge. The political campaign and other things from previous discussion topics are meant to win people over.
Maybe, but I prefer to give people a chance to change. Revenge is all well and good, but do it with a purpose. Killing one asshole might feel good, but it is not really going to help overall, and it's just going to get you in trouble. But convincing them that the are wrong? Now THAT makes a huge difference in the world, particularly someone who is in a position to do some good.
And it is all part of the same thing. To change the system, we have to do it one person at a time. You convert one person, and they convert someone else, who then converts another, and so on... Every step we take is progressm and even if it takes decades, that is a blink if an eye to most elves. Almost everything we do, makes people's lives better.
Just think about how that scene had played out differently, if the people before us had just convinced her to be nice...
A few kids, even kids as in offspring, starting a war with the MC? As hilarious as that would be, I just don't see that happening. First of all, it would be like bringing a pistol to a tank fight. Second, they don't have the means to raise an army and I doubt they could get people on their side by themselves. It would be a handful of them vs us and some of us are capable fighters already. Like I said, just sick Lin, Ashley, and Nia on them and they won't last long. Never, and I mean NEVER piss off Lin or Ashley by endangering the MC, that's pretty much a guarantee to be hunted down to the ends of the Earth, and Nia would join us due to the opposition being against her views on slavery of her people while we support those views.
No, being classified as a murderer, killing anyone who comes after you, attacking someone who is a high end person in the government, yeah, you are going to start a small war. Odds are though, it would end faster than any of the others though, since it wouldn't take more than one small force of police bots to take you out. Nia/Sui and Android are not enough on their own yet.
You against the cops, you lose.
The kids don't need an army, though they could have hired mercs, you don't know how well off they are, maybe they are rich, we don't know... But no, they just have to go to the cops. You murdered their mom. You would be the bad guy here, and they would have every right to come down on you like a hammer. You would have to either start that war, or go to jail.
This is a modern world, with good forensic tech, not a fantasy world where you can just kill anyone who pisses you off.