Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

Srijita wrote:In short, I hope my remarks did not cause any offence, and I apologise if they did.

No offense taken at all, and no need to apologize for anything! On the contrary, Thank you for the healthy and stimulating debate. I enjoyed it.

Ok this weeks What would you do has finally ended and will return on Sunday. Now before I begin I only have one thing to say. Congrats to everyone who chose to refuse the old mans proposal, you have all been granted the power to save the world. Now let me begin to clarify everything.

~First off let me explain the situation of the old man. Some of you may of been thinking is he asking a question as to others is he offering a proposal to you. In fact he is actually offering you a proposal, knowing that it is a major decision against your own heart he's offering to you to either give up your humanity and slay your friend, or to find another way.~

~Many people are often put in these situations so I believe that if we actually debate on them instead of acting it makes you more of a human. We are each given countless choices in life, do we chose life or death, love or betrayal, all these things we must face one day in our lives, so its better to put them in perspective~

~What we chose in life, is it determined by fate? is it destiny? or is it our own free will? That is the blessing of being human, as well as our curse. We are blessed that we have free will to make decisions for ourselves, but at the same time we are cursed for those decisions. For when you chose one outcome the posibility of the other fades away, for no matter how much we try to escape it, we cannot escape the fact that we all have to bear that curse. And that makes us human~

Very interesting, and nicely said, Kaloes!

Kaloes wrote:Now before I begin I only have one thing to say. Congrats to everyone who chose to refuse the old mans proposal, you have all been granted the power to save the world. Now let me begin to clarify everything.

[face=Times New Roman]Well, Thoul caught on to the “test” aspect almost immediately. In fact, I think I’m the only one who didn’t… :oops:...although our answers were ultimately similar.

~Many people are often put in these situations so I believe that if we actually debate on them instead of acting it makes you more of a human. We are each given countless choices in life, do we chose life or death, love or betrayal, all these things we must face one day in our lives, so its better to put them in perspective~

Well put. Fantasy at its best allows examination of moral issues on an epic scale, but the intent of allegory is always to encourage re-examination of the problems and choices common to everyday life. We deal with moral dilemmas all the time, just on a superficially smaller scale. Moral perception also influences our views on social and political issues – hence all the debate

Here in the UK, an epidemic of knife crime in the capital has led public figures to lament the lack of role models for young people. Fantasy role play games are not socially acceptable in many circles here, but paradoxically, one could make a strong case for fantasy heroes (like the PS Protectors) as role models, with whom players can identify and empathise. The trick is to be able to translate the moral challenges of the fantasy realm into their commonplace equivalents.

What would you do has finally ended and will return on Sunday.

Look forward to it
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Ok heres this weeks what would you do.


You live in a quiet little farm town, tending to the horses are your chore. Everyday while you are tending to the horses a young child has always come by to watch you in excitement. One day you are finishing your chores and the person you are doing chores comes to you and pays you for your work. You head back to your home and you overhear some people talking in the dining room. Quietly listening from outside the door you learn that the child that would come to visit you everyday has disappeared, heading towards a dangerous area on the outskirts of town searching for a medicine. You continue listening and finally the group of people begin leaving the room. You learned that the townspeople cannot risk heading into the dangerous area in search of the child, which angers you. You begin walking upstairs when the man who has taken you into his home calls you. He begins telling you that he knew you overheard them talking and tells you to forget about even thinking of going after the child. There are dangerous traps and vicious monsters deep inside where the child ran off to, and he explains all this to you. Do you..

A) Listen to the man, for the town has taken you in and you must agree with their ways
B) Grab your weapon and sneak out to save the child, all the while you may risk banishment from the town.

Kaloes wrote:Do you..

A) Listen to the man, for the town has taken you in and you must agree with their ways
B) Grab your weapon and sneak out to save the child, all the while you may risk banishment from the town.

[face=Times New Roman]All right; I’ll go for B.

I’m fascinated by one aspect of this scenario. The child did not aimlessly wander off; he purposely ventured into a dangerous area in order to find some medicine. In all likelihood, this medicine will help another person, but even if he needs it for himself, it is still an admirable and courageous act. So we are presented with a situation in which a child is willing to risk his life for a noble cause, while a group of grown men sit around twiddling their thumbs. Sheesh.

I’m not that keen on dangerous traps and vicious monsters, but there’s no way I could leave a child to negotiate those hazards alone. (Maternal instincts kick in.) Incurring the wrath of the townsfolk is a non-issue as far as I’m concerned. Given the kind of people they have just shown themselves to be, I’d be better off moving to another region anyhow.

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Kaloes wrote:There are dangerous traps and vicious monsters deep inside where the child ran off to, and he explains all this to you. Do you..

A) Listen to the man, for the town has taken you in and you must agree with their ways
B) Grab your weapon and sneak out to save the child, all the while you may risk banishment from the town.

Well, it sounds to me like there are dangerous traps and vicious monsters inside the town also, especially if they don't even have enough care and compassion about them to rescue or aid a little child in distress who is seeking a medicine he may be in need of. Who cares what the town thinks anyway.

I say " B ".

Go to agree with the other answers so far - B it is. It sounds kind of risky, but it is worth doing. These townspeople are simply cowards to allow a child to go into such a place unassisted. I would already be planning to leave the town, too. If they won't help a child find medicine, then they aren't likely to do squat to help me if I ever need it in the future.

A) I'm a freakin horse boy, what am I gonna do to save a child from the perils of the forest if an entire town doesn't want to save him?