Too Much Caffeine = Dead Characters

Too much caffeine and sugar is a bad thing for me when trying to sort through the next steps of a plot... I start killing off the good guys. That's what happened yesterday. With half my department gone at work I was bored to tears which led to copious amounts of soda and chocolate. Then I tried to distract myself by working on my latest story. What I come up with is:

1. The death of the bad guy is not the final climax. Oh no, he's just a puppet for a bigger bad guy.
2. In the fight against the bigger bad guy, he doesn't die but one of the good guys does. I'm talking something along the lines of a nuclear explosion and mental breakdown for more than one character.
3. What started as a total red herring has turned into the addition of another god in my little fantasy world. Perhaps not such a bad thing since I've also been killing off the existing gods. They keep insisting on being noble, even if they aren't good.
4. In relation to #3, the prospect of a whole new generation of gods is being proposed. My characters aren't sure they like this idea so much. They're arguing.
5. How big of a piece of precious gem stone would be needed to create a dagger blade and how much would said blade be worth on the black market?

Rereading those notes today, all I can say is wow. My plan for this weekend was to add a couple more chapters to this particular story but I really need to rethink all of this. I'm off to the bookstore and coffee shop. Heh.

SK