And then, it's still weird that later they let you take their armor and such that should probably be important to them. SH has Dark Justiciar armor she's wearing almost identical to Grymforge. Would she just let anyone take it and wear it? Lae'zels wearing Gith armor. Same for her. Doesn't really make sense.
The solution that would be most obvious to me would be to not start characters with cool equipment. That is a staple of an RPG (including D:OS2) to not start with items better than what is available for hours of future gameplay. I tend to steal Laez armor because for some characters it is the best armor one can get. There if of course little narrative reason for it - Mindflayers wouldn't necessary strip their prisoners of stuff if they are harmless. But I am sure the characters could start with unique fitting clothing, that also wouldn't be so desirable to steal.
Totally agree. I suggested at one point that all characters should start with zero equipment. As they move about the ship, they find and pick up their starter equipment... Including the origin characters. Why would mind flayers let you keep anything? You're a prisoner. You should have been stripped of everything but your clothes.
But yeah. Why does it make sense that if you are trying to work together with someone to get off that ship, that you wouldn't share equipment? If someone who is helping me needs a potion for healing, I would give them the potion because we're trying to work together to survive.
If they're not going to be a part of the party, I'd rather have them simply computer controlled at that point. At least then they might heal us with a potion of we need it, or something like that. In fact, having them computer controlled makes more sense so Lae'zel doesn't attack Zalk and then say, "Leave the devil. Just get to the helm.". Kinda silly.
But then, you couldn't kill Zalk now could you?
