Talk:It Lives Beneath Choices/@comment-3452092-20181212195100/@comment-34296592-20181213183756

Andisimon, I don't know if they lost a finger as I didn't read that scene too closely (I'm a really big chicken..) but they definitely got hurt. I believe they had to wrap something around their hand.

I restarted the chapter this morning and sat next to Tom on the docks (?) instead of Parker, so I got his nerve score to "on edge". Parker lost some nerve earlier in the chapter when I chose to say that something about Chief Kelley's speech was weird, so now he's rattled instead of "on edge." He lost 2 or 3 nerve points, so hopefully I'll be able to raise him back to "on edge" next chapter. Anyway, Tom was able to save my MC that time around, and raised my MC's nerve score so that she didn't slip to the "rattled" mode. Now everyone is on edge except for Parker.

Oh, my. I feel you. I HATE the horror genre. The worst thing is that I actually care about the characters... if it was a horror book where I hated the characters, I wouldn't worry as much about their nerve scores. Obviously I wouldn't want them to get hurt even if I hated them, but I wouldn't keep track on their nerve scores as much as I do in ILB. This stresses me out. :(