The Orphan and Bus Problem
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A busload of nuns is hurtling towards a cliff. You can save them, but the absolute only way is by killing a single, terribly cute young orphan. How would the followers of various gods approach this issue?
- Aelin
- Aeolis followers would try to win the hearts of all of the nuns on the bus with their heroism before it crashed.
- Alil followers would jump on top of the bus, ride it over the cliff, and then dance and make out with the half-dead nuns.
- Serachel followers would let the bus go over, then distract the orphan and push him off the cliff while he's not looking.
- Alatharya
- Enirra followers would ask the scale of Orlin what alignment the nuns and orphan were, and then gang up on the weaker one.
- Caladaran
- Ch'taren
- Calaera followers would organize a militant task force to neutralize the threat, claiming the bus was a shuddeni plot.
- Rystaia Lightbringer followers would insist on saving the bus and the nuns, maybe save one or the other, but be secure in knowing they didn't compromise.
- Vaialos followers would lament the loss of the nuns and the orphan, but keep their memory alive for the next six months.
- Ethron
- Human
- Kankoran
- Arikanja Blackfang followers would
- Girikha followers would hide behind a tree and ambush the orphan, then write a song about a legendary kankoran vanquisher.
- Khanval followers would overrun the bus, kill everyone on it, and then talk about how civilization had it coming.
- Nefortu
- Shuddeni
- Arkhural followers would wait until the bus crashed, rob the bodies, and proclaim themselves king of the cliff.
- Ashur followers would watch them both die, and hope that their deaths would bring about the end times.
- Rveyelhi followers would falsify evidence, mark all of the nuns, and declare the cliff New Yithoul when the bus crashed.
- Srryn
- None
- Iandir would make sure no one intervened with the bus or the orphan's proper course, resulting in a very orderly tragedy.