On 3/29/2017 at 8:13 PM, TaiChiSusan said:

MANY MANY THANKS To the kind and thoughtful responses to this question. I am honored by your interest, compassion and voluminous advice.

Bher is already a ********** SPOILER ALERT ******* dark side user. I don't like to metagame. I play her from my gut and what I think she would feel in the moment. Likewise, I think the other players, David Wright and Joshu Reynolds do their very best to inhabit their characters without player's knowledge. It is impossible to achieve total separation of player/character knowledge, but that is my goal. I like the idea of exploring the dark side a little further but I really don't think that is Bher. She is super stubborn and super impatient. She's already lost a ************** SPOILER AGAIN *************** person, friend's limb, her health and happiness. She is tired, frustrated and lonely since Xen left. I like the idea of the new mentor. Maybe that could be a new player who joins our table. We are always looking for new players.

I finished bingeing the entire seven seasons over the past... three... weeks? And I even sent a fawning email of praise like, last week! Different user name from here, though.

Great job on everything! <rant>I tried listening to other FFG SW podcasts after D4B and they all really suck so far, in comparison. The three others I've sampled are simply hours of goofy characters and unfunny jokes and lame attempts at accents, virtually no editing for story cohesion, Galaxy-Quest-Hitchhiker's-Guide-wanna-be's and ain't-gonna-be's. That's all fine and dandy if I'm sitting in on a game that's supposed to be casual and goofy, but not fun as a listener who wants a decently serious with some humor thrown in story told in the SW universe using FFG's ruleset. </rant>

But. Character feedback time. So, Bher wants to try and redeem herself? Three words for ya: Act. Like. Xen.

The two already had a connection since the beginning and it was Xen's use of a Triumph which literally saved Bher's life at the end, especially as he didn't even have to spend it on that. Throughout the entire series, David has been carefully walking through his use of the Force and why Xen chooses to use light pips rather than dark, for example.

Xen always reached out to others in a friendly manner and was genuinely concerned for their well-being. Bher didn't and really wasn't. She was always self-focused, even from the beginning. She bossed everyone around including the other PC's. Though she was the only one with medical skills, she even joked once that she'd heal Gree first to "test it out" to make sure it was safe to heal herself. It was a funny moment, unscripted, but in a way, it was kind of insightful to how Bher really thought of even her closest friends.

Bher isolated herself from everyone, probably to prevent her from becoming hurt when loved ones die or even unintentionally hurt you. The antidote isn't to withdraw further, it's to reach out more. Gree and Xen are still there, somewhere close and haven't abandoned her yet.

Maybe not her death, especially since it doesn't sound like she has done terrible things, but I think any redemption without a price being paid is cheap. I absolutely love a good redemption story, but there has to be some kind of sacrifice. Perhaps she need to be prepared to sacrifice her life for someone, but in actuality loses a limb, for example. Not a huge disadvantage in the Star Wars universe, but a constant reminder of her failure and the price she paid...