Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!wjh12!gts From: gts@wjh12.UUCP (G. T. Samson) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Killing PC's Message-ID: <574@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Wed, 1-May-85 22:54:45 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.574 Posted: Wed May 1 22:54:45 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 4-May-85 04:50:39 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Harvard MicroWizards HQ Lines: 63 There are occasionally other reasons to kill off PC's. Here's a cute one from a campaign I took part in some time back. We were all 3rd level characters for the most part, and we had been summoned to a town at the request of the elders to take out a skulk that had been terror- izing the place. We were mostly Lawful types, except for a NG gnome fighter- illusionist and a CN human cleric of Dionysius. As good L's should, we set up to patrol for the skulk; we split into 2 groups and I took my pegasus up to serve as a flying lookout. (Pegasus, you say? Well, it didn't last long. Mating frenzy set in, and well, you can guess the rest.) After this first fruitless night of patrol, I lost the pegasus as mentioned above, and we again split into 2 patrol groups, but with no skywatch this time. Yet another fruit- less night of waiting went by, and our cleric began to get a little restless. After we repeated our wait-and-see tactics a third time, we were suddenly noti- fied by our fighter/illusionist that the cleric hadn't shown up for his lookout. (Now the fun begins...) A small group of us ran all over the place looking for him. Eventually, we heard some wolves and went to see what was up... and found our cleric up a tree speaking to them and asking them questions. Our approach scared the wolves away, and one of our fighters (Cirrh, with strength something like 24 due to a girdle of giant strength) got really angry with the cleric and started yelling nasty things at him up in the tree. This is what sparked the conflict that led to us having to kill him. Well, the cleric decided that he didn't want to hear the fighter raving up at him, so he threw a silence at him, which only maddened the fighter more and took the cleric's spell-casting ability away. Cirrh started trying to poke the cleric with his ranseur, and the cleric came down with blood in his eyes and his +2 mace in hand, ready to kill. He was quickly disarmed (with the ranseur, one of Cirrh's weapons of proficiency) and knocked unconscious. After binding him securely, we removed all the stuff from him that he might later want, including his mace and a phylactery of some sort. When he reawakened, we told him that we would return his mace and other possessions if he swore by Dionysius that he wouldn't go wandering off by himself anymore. Unfortunately, he wasn't in a very conciliatory mood; perhaps being tied up and slapped around by Cirrh contributed to this. To make this shorter, basically, after telling us something like "I won't promise because I am a law unto myself" he (being psionic) tried to do an expansion and break his bonds. At which point Cirrh leapt forward and broke his neck. No save or anything was allowed; Cirrh's 24 strength and our cleric's helpless position took care of that. The fighter also had been ready for something like this; it took the rest of us by surprise. And presto, one dead cleric. This caused us a bit of trouble, in that we had to find a cleric before we could go on...but we found one, of the same alignment (and the same god, even! What a coincidence... but it was the same player) and continued. Actually, that campaign's been on hold for a while now due to commitments on the part of the DM... but what a strange way to start. I wonder how (or if) it will end. Anyone else out there got any strange tales of PC death? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: G. T. Samson Quote: "No matter where you go...there you are." -- B. Banzai Other_Quote: "You speak treason!" "Fluently!" -- The Doctor ARPA: gts@wjh12 [preferred] OR samson%h-sc4@harvard USMail: Lowell H-41, Harvard U., Cambridge, MA 02138