I've recently started listening to this podcast in the last few months and have just heard the end of the Lorelei/season 2 story. I really enjoyed it, even though I'm sad Drop was wiped out.
Anyway, I had thought of something and wondered a) if it would have worked, and b) would any of the characters willingly have tried to executed it. As it happens, the ending wouldn't have required this plan to be done, but the characters wouldn't have known this at the time.
So, the Kuo-toa accidentally created the portals and the god-monster in the sea. Their gesh keep the portals open and the god-monster alive. Also, they have some sort of collective consciousness. As discussed by Drop and Alias, killing all the Kuo-toa would close the portals.
Now, my thought was that the solution to save the prime material from more flooding would be to use Hunter and depress him to the point of suicide - 'Mother never loved you and only wanted the Kuo-toa for sacrifices. And thanks to your deal, you have killed Mother; she can never come back' - with the collective consciousness, the depression would spread and cause the Kuo-toa to kill themselves off and cancel the gesh; portals close and maybe the God-Monster would die?
It *should* kill the god monster and close the portals, but I don't know if it would make the floodwaters recede... It's been a while since I heard it so I don't remember to what extent Zavala's deals get undone by the death of the dealmaker.
I also think the party would prefer killing them all over making them commit suicide, if they settled on that solution. Idk, it seems silly when the outcome is the same, but bullying-to-suicide seems too dark for this show XD
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That does seem a rather lawyerly way of saying, "Well WE didn't kill him!" while still being responsible for exactly that (I guess a Lawful Evil solution?). I can't see the players adopting such an approach, and not just as I don't think any of them were Lawful Evil.
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