Talk:It Lives In The Woods Choices/@comment-33422538-20171226011621/@comment-3452092-20171229164842

No, and it worried me that there was nothing I could do to raise my character's nerve in the latest chapter, because the fact that Dan wasn't awake yet scared me. There is a reason he has nerve (and right now thanks to my choice to only spend diamonds on him . . . he has better nerve than anyone else in my game). I worry that I haven't done enough to keep my character's nerve up and that one or more of them will succumb to low nerve.

I would guess that none of them can succumb until after they are no longer necessary for the plot (hence why MeetMyShadow's Lucas was stammering, but not otherwise showing problems). It was necessary for the plot that they all survive to homecoming. I would guess that until the last chapter none of them can die, although it's possible that it could be until the second to last chapter, because the last chapter could be a relax and deal with aftermath type chapter. And I'm really hoping that Dan has at least a full chapter involved in the action of the story (with him fully conscious)

When they did a nerve check during chapter eleven, I was kind of stunned when it told me all of their nerves were high. Excuse me? They are all in the last quarter of their nerve. . . but then during the party I had two characters who their nerve check said it was low when they actually had higher nerve than some of the other characters, so who knows what all that means. RIght now I have six characters in the last quarter of their nerve, one character (my character) in the third quarter of her nerve, and one character (Dan) in the second quarter of his nerve. I'm really worried about Lucas as I think he's probably the lowest nerve of all of them.

When the book is done I am going to replay it to experiment with nerve and see what happens under given circumstances, see what it takes to bottom someone out and what are the results while they are still unlikely to die. For this playthough, though, I am just trying to see if they can all get through alive without using diamonds (except Dan, obviously I stacked that deck in his favor, because I suspect that's the only way he'll survive, although when I do experimenting, I will drop those options for one round as well).