The Best Party Wipe Yet.
Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:01 am
So. A PC of mine wanted to play a Jermalaine (sp?). It's essentially a mutant rat, about a foot tall, and considerably smarter (Average int. around 8). Anyway, the character had a intense hatred of "The big people" (Dwarven miners), and became a rouge, picking off at their numbers. The PC soloed him for 8 levels, Rouge7/Ranger1 Jermalaine. This thing was doing about 1d3+7+4d6 dmg. His other char died, and he wanted to replace it with his Jermalaine. The idea was that the PCs would raid this cave, come back to town, walk into a bar, and meet the Jermalaine, introduce, and there we go. What happened was this:
PCs joined up with another adventuring band. I had to think of the party off the top of my head (damn PCs) so, I creatively made it consist of a Dwarven Fighter named Tordek, a Human fighter named Redgar, a Elven wizard named Mialee, and a human ranger named Soveliss. During the raid Tordek falls off a small sciff, and finds a secret catch of gems and weapons. Once the PCs found the treasure room the PC wizard decides to invis HIS party and loot the treasure, but not to tell the NPC group, as to not to let them in on the goods. The PCs agree, and it might've worked, except the NPCs were only about 50 feet behind the PCs, and heard the not-so-brilliant scheme. The NPCs might've also wondered why the chests were looting themselves. After a few fireballs from Mialee, and a furious fight (Which went very well for the PCs) they rush away with the treasure, only bumping into Tordek on the way out. He took the news of his parties death rather well, and bought the lie that the groups had run into a young red dragon.
They return to the inn, Tordek, gems and all, whereupon the Jermalaine promptly shoots Tordek in the head, killing him. The Jermalaine is executed the next day. The PCs want to rez this random rat thing. The party was without a cleric, but the Wizard had invented a spell in which you could transfer the soul to a new body (essentially the Druid's reincarnate spell, but you had to have a body already). So they use Tordek. The Jermalaine/Dwarf is delighted in being rezed, until he finds out that he is now a dwarf, the race he hates so passionatly. So, he waits 'till dark, then slays all the PCs in their sleep before killing himself.
Best party wipe so far...
PCs joined up with another adventuring band. I had to think of the party off the top of my head (damn PCs) so, I creatively made it consist of a Dwarven Fighter named Tordek, a Human fighter named Redgar, a Elven wizard named Mialee, and a human ranger named Soveliss. During the raid Tordek falls off a small sciff, and finds a secret catch of gems and weapons. Once the PCs found the treasure room the PC wizard decides to invis HIS party and loot the treasure, but not to tell the NPC group, as to not to let them in on the goods. The PCs agree, and it might've worked, except the NPCs were only about 50 feet behind the PCs, and heard the not-so-brilliant scheme. The NPCs might've also wondered why the chests were looting themselves. After a few fireballs from Mialee, and a furious fight (Which went very well for the PCs) they rush away with the treasure, only bumping into Tordek on the way out. He took the news of his parties death rather well, and bought the lie that the groups had run into a young red dragon.
They return to the inn, Tordek, gems and all, whereupon the Jermalaine promptly shoots Tordek in the head, killing him. The Jermalaine is executed the next day. The PCs want to rez this random rat thing. The party was without a cleric, but the Wizard had invented a spell in which you could transfer the soul to a new body (essentially the Druid's reincarnate spell, but you had to have a body already). So they use Tordek. The Jermalaine/Dwarf is delighted in being rezed, until he finds out that he is now a dwarf, the race he hates so passionatly. So, he waits 'till dark, then slays all the PCs in their sleep before killing himself.
Best party wipe so far...