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Originally Posted by Mikewind Dale  Another difficulty: In conversation with TO, to scare him into merging with you, you must threaten to kill yourself with the special Blade of the Immortal from Coaxmetal. But why? If death in the Negative Material Plane, period, causes permanent death, why can't you threaten to kill yourself with a rock to the head?
Another difficulty: If Nameless One's dying in the NMP = permanent death, then the Transcendant One is off his rocker for trying to kill NO there! Rather, TO should transport NO out of the Fortress and then kill him, for in the conversation between NO and TO, TO says that he depends on NO's living, for the two have a link; TO does not want NO to die, but simply he wants NO to be far far away from NO, and without any memories. Were NO to die permanently, TO would die also, which is why one of the possible game endings is either killing yourself or threatening to kill yourself (which scares TO into merging). A game over for you is a game over for TO too. |
Maybe there are different deaths? I mean, a "game over" doesn't necessarily mean he permanently dies. It could be that he revives, but can't complete the game because everyone who knows the way to the Fortress of Regrets are dead.
TO is only afraid of NO permanently dieing. A rock to the head would just kill him, reviving him and would be exactly what TO wants as well. The same thing if TO kills him, he doesn't die, he just revives without any hope of solving the puzzle.
But, killing himself with the Blade that we know really kills him... TO doesn't want that, do he?