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You have to pick:

Become an animated skeleton (while retaining your mind)
 
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You gain a health bar with 10 hearts. If your heath ever reaches 0, you die - but it is impossible to die in any other way.

The most damage any one event can cause you is 6 hearts. However minor things (anything as painful as stubbing your toe) all do 1 heart of damage. Injuries in between these two extremes do a proportionate amount of damage.

You regenerate 1 heart per week. Your injuries heal as the hearts of damage they caused heal.

 
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JonThompsonsEmail

Some examples:

Falling off a skyscraper - 6 hearts
Being crushed under rubble - 6 hearts
Being decapitated - 6 hearts
Getting in a car accident which would normally have been fatal - 6 hearts
Drowning - 6 hearts

Being beaten within an inch of your life - 5 hearts
Getting terminal cancer - 5 hearts
Stabbed in the chest - 5 hearts

Being severely beaten - 4 hearts
Stabbed in the gut - 4 hearts

Falling down a flight of stairs - 3 hearts

Getting punched in the face by a boxer - 2 hearts

Stubbing your toe - 1 heart
Hitting your funny bone - 1 heart
Scraping your knee - 1 heart
Hitting your head - 1 heart

RbrtKurtz

So I could develop cancer or AIDS or some other normally fatal disease, then as my health regenerates at 1 unit per week, I'm cured in 5 weeks? But if I get cancer, then stub my toe or skin my knee a few times all the same week, I'm dead? This is actually interesting.

Can I see my health bar? For example, I probably wouldn't know the instant I develop cancer, so I wouldn't know to be extra cautious that week being down 5 units, or any time I'm less than 7 for that matter. However, if I had a way to check my health bar (like maybe it was conveniently located in the upper left of my field of vision), then I would know to just stay in bed for a while when my heath gets low.

JonThompsonsEmail

@RbrtKurtz - My thought is that you know what your health is at all times in one way or another. I posted this option and we had an in-person discussion first, and we discussed that it is a lot scarier if you don't know and it makes it a lot worse of an option. So we'll say that you do know your health at all times.

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