I apologize if this is planning a bit too far ahead!
Player: Blue Character: Anthony Reason for Echo: Self-inflicted seax injury resulting from a lapse of grace in the planned upcoming mine dive. What is returned: His undead damage tolerance. In this case, he'll likely wind up with the blade of his sword stuck in his side in an injury that wouldn't be unlikely to kill him left twenty to thirty minutes unchecked and that would certainly keep him from going anywhere on his own under most circumstances. In fact he'll probably have just begun slipping out of consciousness when an Echo hits - in the form of the same burning magic that came over him when he touched the first statue in the Dead District, which will roughly wake him back up and allow him to grit his teeth and keep on going without the wound worsening in itself.
His zombifying spell would technically keep him functioning through anything short of damage or stress that is irreparably lethal instantly or within a minute or to - he wouldn't be revivable if he were to be, say, incinerated, subjected to Remove the Head or Destroy the Brain, or if his vital organs were shredded in more than a few places at once.
It'll mean more as his zombification progresses later on - for now he is as good as perfectly alive, and while he can theoretically push through the same levels of damage now as he'll be able to as a full zombie later, his limits are different. That he still has a normal degree of tolerance for pain may lead him to inadvertently hurt himself more out of stress in particularly dire situations or with especially nasty injuries; losing a significant amount of blood during or resultantly within a few seconds after sustaining an injury would still cause him to feel faint at best or allow it to count is immediately lethal at worst; until he's much more dead than alive he'll still be susceptible to sickness, toxins, infections, and so forth; etc.
Reason for Echo: Encountering the Sage of Earth. What is returned: Language! A bit of looking at the new words and it'll occur to him that it's definitely not Latin and is probably an old Franconian - not so obviously useful in modern times, but still a valuable enough something.
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Player: Blue
Character: Anthony
Reason for Echo: Self-inflicted seax injury resulting from a lapse of grace in the planned upcoming mine dive.
What is returned: His undead damage tolerance. In this case, he'll likely wind up with the blade of his sword stuck in his side in an injury that wouldn't be unlikely to kill him left twenty to thirty minutes unchecked and that would certainly keep him from going anywhere on his own under most circumstances. In fact he'll probably have just begun slipping out of consciousness when an Echo hits - in the form of the same burning magic that came over him when he touched the first statue in the Dead District, which will roughly wake him back up and allow him to grit his teeth and keep on going without the wound worsening in itself.
His zombifying spell would technically keep him functioning through anything short of damage or stress that is irreparably lethal instantly or within a minute or to - he wouldn't be revivable if he were to be, say, incinerated, subjected to Remove the Head or Destroy the Brain, or if his vital organs were shredded in more than a few places at once.
It'll mean more as his zombification progresses later on - for now he is as good as perfectly alive, and while he can theoretically push through the same levels of damage now as he'll be able to as a full zombie later, his limits are different. That he still has a normal degree of tolerance for pain may lead him to inadvertently hurt himself more out of stress in particularly dire situations or with especially nasty injuries; losing a significant amount of blood during or resultantly within a few seconds after sustaining an injury would still cause him to feel faint at best or allow it to count is immediately lethal at worst; until he's much more dead than alive he'll still be susceptible to sickness, toxins, infections, and so forth; etc.
Reason for Echo: Encountering the Sage of Earth.
What is returned: Language! A bit of looking at the new words and it'll occur to him that it's definitely not Latin and is probably an old Franconian - not so obviously useful in modern times, but still a valuable enough something.