Talk:Lorenzo/@comment-1412148-20180713094004/@comment-36215862-20180716175552

If he IS an Oni, it would kind of make sense with how Matt has been giving them encounters. I've noticed a trend ever since the Harvest Close episode, all the creatures, except for the Winter Wolves, are almost always at the CR or higher than the total party's level, the Mighty Nein are currently at 5th level, but back when the Harvest Close festival and the Victory Pit happened, they were 4th level, and the creatures they fought in there were all CR 5, except for the wolves with a CR 3 but there was 2 of them so it fits in with the trick Matt is doing. For those who don't know how CR works, its how you designate what a challenge is for a party. CR 5 is a good challenge for a FULL party of 5th level characters, and a full party is traditionally consisted of 5-6 PC's. To give a FULL party an extreme challenge with risk of death, it is recommended to give the party a creature at least 1 or 2 CR higher than their level. An Oni is CR 7, it wields a Glaive which is a common weapon for a Oni to have, it knows Cone of Cold, if he were a spell caster and were at least 9th level, he would had 2 spell slots for 5th level spells. He could have used another one, to easily finish off the party, but he didn't, fitting in with the fact that Oni's can use Cone of Cold 1/day. Since the party is now reduced to half of their original members, this is a near impossible challenge for 4 5th level characters, 5 depending on if they have a guest or not, especially with the Cone of Cold, Caleb can easily be 1 shot by him. This is obviously a challenge for when Laura and Travis are ready to come back, Matt will present them with the scenario of the Slaver's Hideout potentially, and when they are back in numbers, will stand a fair chance to fight Lorenzo. Until then though, it looks extremely grim. I do feel as though Molly won't be permanently dead, he has always kind of shrugged off death and never really payed much heed to it. With his backstory it makes sense that death doesn't affect him, Cree stated that he was killed before, and he was revived completely randomly, and in addition to that, I feel as though him and Nott have gotten the short end of the stick in terms of backstory. Aside from the reveal of Cree, maybe this was what Taliesin has been waiting for, he perhaps has a life after death in Molly, would be a cool little thing. I don't know I just feel there's more to his death than we think.