Cantr II Discussion Forum

I was going to post this as a reply to the "get rid of insta-healing" topic in the suggestions forum, but then I decided it would better go there since it has no actual feedback or opinion with whether or not insta-healing should go away. (I'm against it going away, btw. But that's not the point.)

What I want to know is how you people roleplay with healing food.
- Does it magicially heal your character instantly regardless of the severity of the injury?
- Do you purposely ingest healing food slowly in order to support roleplaying slow (and realistic) healing with the mechanics?
- etcetcetc

My response:
I've done the whole roleplay "sldkfhlagd I just got trampled by this elephant and all my bones are broken and there's so much blood" (okay, maybe not to that point, but still) thing, and I've also done the insta-heal. I think I shifted towards the latter lately because characters around me weren't very likely or happy to roleplay with the whole injured thing. And when I do play injured with the others around my characters, they generally treat the healing food's effects like narcotic painkillers rather than instant healing.

Scenario A: a majorly injured character in an injured-rp-friendly environment
You see elephant attack Snickie's char.
Snickie's char says: "Adalgkhdsf I just got impaled by the tusk of this elephant, it barely missed my important internal organs but ALKDSFHPROFANITIES IT HUUUURRRRRTTSSSS!!!!! Somebody get me some bleeping raisins here, I NEED PAIN RELIEF AND I NEED IT NOW!!!"
Someone else's char says: "Oh my gosh, that's awful! Here, have some raisins!"
You see Someone else's char give Snickie's char some raisins.
Snickie's char consumes all the raisins.
Snickie's char says: "Ahhh, that feels so much better.... but... I don't think I'll be able to walk anytime soon."
Someone else's char says: "That's okay, we'll help you."
Snickie says: "Hooray!"

Scenario B: a lesser injured character with a high pain tolerance
You see tiger attack Snickie's char.
Snickie's char consumes some honey.
Snickie's char says: "Agh, another tiger scratch? -smears honey on it- That'll make it heal faster. -goes back to harvesting potatoes or other strenuous physical labor-"
Other people say: "O_o whatever d00d."

Scenario C: a majorly injured character in an injured-rp-non-friendly environment
You see bear attack Snickie's char.
Snickie's char says: "-falls and takes a nasty bite to the leg- Ohmygod, I just got bit by a bear. -tries to move it- Omigod it HURTS! Agh! I can't walk! Somebody, help me!"
Someone else's char says: "Suck it up, you bleep."
Snickie says: "Jerk. >:I"

I've role played slow healing and then I've completely ignored the healing process altogether because I usually have more important things to worry about in game than 1 of the 1,000,000 animal attacks I've experienced since I've been playing.
I've done the instant "magic heal" too. But as for realism: You spawn at 20 years old, there are people riding around in cars wielding crossbows and swords like a Mad Max film. So who's being realistic in Cantr?

In all three cases, I would change my char description to "has a scar on (some embarrassing body part) that resembles 3 parallel claw marks.
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Oh yeah...

"You can only see these marks when he is scantily clad"
But I don't feel like changing the description every time I go swimming, so just rp that you don't see them until then.

I generally only rp injuries that are somehow impact the character. It may seem rather ooc or god moddy but I really don't have the patience to keep track of all the various wounds and scars (be it on my or others characters) that people can accumulate. Now if your looking for something to do then go ahead and rp a vicious animal attack but in the locations with higher animal populations that kind of rp will get tedious at best.

I do the instant healing if there's a danger of being hit again but use slow healing in situations where there's no danger (if you move indoors afterwards or the threat has been eliminated). I tend to rp slow healing process after animal attacks nowadays, but back when I had Swedish characters, you had to heal instantly or the gorillas would kill you. Sometimes people have offered to stitch up wounds and I like that because it's realistic. Bandages are also used. I've had good healing rp and then I've seen the bad where you're just handed a ton of healing food and told to suck it up. The best scene was when one of my characters got her leg skewered by a warthog, and then it got infected so her friends had to pack the wound to let it heal from the bottom up. I learned a new thing about treating wounds that day.