***SPOILERS*** Why No Rez in SSA#6??

THE PREFACE:

The ritual for reviving the long-dead Red Widow was the topic of a prior thread on why Ms. Liberty could not use that ritual to revive Statesman. While no hard-and-fast answer was conclusive, the Devs, in the background, seemed to indicate two key factors for the negative:

1) The ritual will not work if the deceased does not wish to return, and
2) Statesman "welcomed his death" as he was "seeking peace after fighting crime for decades" and died with a smile on his face, ergo, he likely does not want to return.

The question about Wakies, the Hospital, Empath and Dark Rezzes and other such things arose, and one of the answers for those was that they only work if you are, in the parlance of "The Princess Bride," "MOSTLY Dead," ie, just on the brink but not actually expired.

ftp://ftp.cityofheroes.com/comics/topcow/comic_20.pdf p.13 paints a different picture.

Positron's armor breaches and the energy breach causes a massive explosion, which totally vaporizes Postitron:

"Synapse is dead. I think some of the others are too. I see no sign of Positron, other than a faint but recognizable energy residue."

Immediately, the Dark Watcher says, "I can bring them back" and before you can say "Padme Hung," everyone is alive and well... except Positron is naked, and Ms. Liberty's costume is still ripped up. Still, I don't know if you can get any "deader" than being vaporized so totally there is only an energy residue left of you.

THE QUESTION:

Since Sister Psyche presumably did not "die happily" like Statesman, and since even being totally vaporized does not pose a problem for a rez, why aren't the Ritual or one or more of the other Rez techniques being employed for Sister Psyche?

Her soul is imprisoned within the everlasting torment cauldron in that one room in Oranbega that everyone always forgets to ransack.

It's a little hard to avoid the spoiler when you make the title "No Rez For Sister Psyche?". Not everyone has done SSA 6 yet.

There's no rez for Sister Psyche because the devs finally decided they no longer hate villains.

It's also not the first time Psyche has died, either. During the Brawler/Protean comic arc, she dies while mindriding Manticore to figure out who attacked him (he goes into cardiac arrest while she's still in his head and they both die).

The doctors try to revive them, no luck - they're both dead, prepare to tag 'n bag, when in floats Numina...

And voila, a few pages later, the dynamic duo are back.

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That being said, I wonder if it's more related to the state of one's spirit, rather than one's body... sure, Posi nuked, but his soul was presumably still intact. Same for everyone else that died and was revived.

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If that's the case, then the writers should have set up something in WWD6 that her soul is being ripped to shreds, forced from her into the bodies of EVERYONE in Paragon (now THAT would have been an epic level spell), and being impossible to recoalesce, there isn't enough left of Psyche to bring back.

Otherwise, nope, she's now just "an ex psychic."

As much as I loathe "handwaving," I suspect that's what's going on here. Unless we find out in WWD7 that Wade deliberately set up some sort of spell to prevent her being brought back (or something to that effect), then it's just a matter of "she's dead and can't be brought back because we say so, so there."

*grimaces*

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Have you seen the ingredients required for the Valentine's Day Resurrection spell? You got them easy the first time, sure, but good luck finding duplicates of those items!

Also, Sister Psyche may have "mind ridden" her psyche into Manticore and is not actually dead yet. Part Seven of the "Who Will Die" arc may shed some light. Or not.

SPOILERS
Bruce Leeroy beats the shogun of Harlem.
It's People! It's People!
She smothered her own baby.
They blow up the death star. Twice.
She leaves with Laslo.
Bruce Willis is dead.
He threw the map into the lake.
They can't stop the signal.
There's a huge nuclear war and the hot dog stand he builds is useless.
His glasses break and he can't read the books.
The universe dies a heat-death.

**ack**

Tremendous brain cramp on that title. My bad. Have asked a Mod to rename it.

Because we can't. That's it, and that's probably all it's ever going to be. The writers wanted this to happen, and didn't put as much thought into execution as they should have. I really wonder who in the world thought it was a good idea to have a resurrection ritual in a mission that pops up right after these big deaths, well before Psyche's. Maybe we will be able to bring Psyche back later, but they replaced her with Penny so fast it made my head spin, so I have my doubts that there is any plan to bring her back anytime soon.

Heroes got the shaft in this arc, and I don't see anything really way for them to bring it around for heroes in any meaningful way, outside of just retconning the whole thing, which I doubt is an option since this is going to be the first arc that affects the game world and takes NPC's off the map.

Heroes may have to take the advice that Villains got in similar issues with story, get over it and move on. It sucks, but I don't think there's much that can be done at this point.

Could it also have something to do with the obilisk that Wade is using? Perhaps it traps more than just their superpowers.

Yeah, more likely though it's "they just can't".

I just figured they were going to write it as Sister Psyche mind-riding Penny. That's why she gets into the Freedom Phalanx.

Then again, I could be wrong.

The Dev's have bluntly stated that Statesman is going to stay dead, no rezzing in his future.

The Dev's have remained silent about Sister's true fate.

Things that make you go hmmm....

Sister Psyche does not wish to return and get shot by Manticore again?

She dc-ed during the cutscene and hasn't been able to log back in to accept the rez.