Navigate the High Intensity Questions in Blade & Sorcery with this comprehensive guide. Understand character responses and test outcomes.
Q: You're going to die. It maybe soon. Death, the grave, rot. It maybe soon. The readouts don't lie. You're scared. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.
L: You're cruel.
M: It's just part of the test.
L: Oh, I should've known.
Q: Like my briefcase? Department issue, baby hide. 100% genuine human baby hide.
L: Baby hide? That's...that's...
Q: What do you think it's like, to be a Replicant?
L: It's scary. Being hunted all the time. I can see it in father's eyes.
Q: You're on a farm. You get into the pen to feed the pigs. In their excitement, the animals knock you down into the mud. Using a butcher knife, you slit the throat of the nearest sow. You're covered with blood as you stumble to your feet.
L: I don't have a knife!
M: That's not...
L: And I don't like this question! Ask me something else.
Q: You're watching an old movie. It shows a banquet in progress. The guests are enjoying raw oysters. The entrée consists of boiled dog.
L: I couldn't watch that.
M: Me either.
L: I know, because of your dog.
M: How d'you know about her?
L: You always like dogs. I can tell.
Q: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling towards you. You reach down and flip the tortoise on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly is baking in the hot sun. Beating its legs, trying to turn himself over.
[Replicant]
L: I'd help it.
[Human]
L: I'd help him. I swear I would.
M: But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
[Replicant]
L: I said I'd help him!
M: "It".
L: What?
M: The first time you called the tortoise "it". Not "him". Let's move on.
[Human]
L: I said I'd help him! Is the test finished?
M: It doesn't matter.
L: I want to finish.
Q: You're at a restaurant with friends. One of them orders lobster. The chef drops the lobster into the tub of boiling water, while you watch.
L: Why would my friends take me there? They're not really friends, are they?
Q: You've been kidnapped. Your captors tell you that you'd better think about what you did to deserved this.
[Replicant]
L: I'm sure I did something. Father says I'm always making mistakes.
[Human]
L: Father says I make mistakes a lot. But that's human, isn't it?
Q: You see an oversized book with pictures of exotic animals on the cover. The title is "Big-Game Hunting in Zaire". Curious, you flip it open. There's a picture of a man standing with his foot on a dead Cape buffalo.
L: I wouldn't read a book like that.
M: You find yourself fascinated. You keep paging through it, seeing picture after picture of animals laid to waste. Each more gruesome than the last.
L: I told you I wouldn't read a book like that.
Q: You rent a mountain cabin. On a wall, someone has hung old maps and Currier & Ives prints. A deer is mounted above the fireplace. A full stag with developed horns.
L: A head? Why?
M: They used to--
L: I don't wanna know.
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