I was about to comment that what the driving force behind the LP needs to be is a two-track path to Lenin's dick and lend Baltika some memetic support, but the joke has exhausted itself. And since the argument is more or less back to a civil one, I will respond to it seriously.
treave's LPs are good at providing opportunities that aren't evident at the time of the choice, but should have been in hindsight. It is what causes us to sometimes pin unfounded hopes on certain options, because there were precedents of those coming to fruition even at times when no one expected them to (see: the Fire Lord case). It is what informs a very sound policy of these LPs that people have voiced before: if you want something, pick a choice that has to do with that something more so than others. All things come to those who wait.
In that sense, even though a way to help Liz can not be seen from where we are, it would certainly be easier to recognize and take it if we stay close to her. And much as I hope that other choices won't close off that path, treave's plot branches are often (but not always) exclusive. Just the order in which we go about our business changes things around.
Is Liz an important enough character that she wouldn't be killed off on a choice that does not directly pertain to saving her? It's possible, but it is equally possible to hear "you had a pick of priorities, and Liz wasn't one of them" instead.
So I don't buy the "maybe there is nothing we can do anyway" logic I hear from some of the posters. Going to the city was 50/50 also going with Liz, she is one of our companions, and she still breathes, so saving her is down the questing tree somewhere... and some paths run closer to it than others.
Of course, the very same logic is what pushes me towards the early XXth century politics and Rasputin vs Lenin rap battles while the entire world watches.
Because I imagine it won't be easy for a hunter to insert himself in the center of a political tornado otherwise; most of it just doesn't concern us.
But I would prefer the hospital stay and getting education as a doctor if I can't get that.
It's nice, but it's something she explicitly said she doesn't want us to do.
Nah, she doesn't want us to stagnate and waste our life on chores. Becoming a doctor is a legitimate career choice... and her parents wouldn't have offered that if they thought it a dead end. Her father was the one who nudged us out of the house to find ourselves.
Normally when I have a friend or family member who’s sick at the hospital I will visit them but I will not take up a job at that hospital to always be lurking around them. Especially if I were having to deal with the fluids of patients.
Yes, this is going above and beyond a visit, which is why it is more likely to produce a different result. Visitors don't cure patients; doctors do.
