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I'm surprised no one maybe any Monty Python jokes.


I was playing a priest in Warhammer 40k. When we were all suiting up to fight some orcs, I gave some stirring words.

"We shall wipe this scum from the planet as we would wipe dirt from our boots."

My fellow players were quite impressed.

Silver Crusade

During the Eyes of the Ten Pathfinder Society Organized Play "retirement" arch, there is a point where you encounter each of the "Faction's" headquarters. Since the Scenario was written, the Factions had changed, so one of the players who had been a member of a Faction that's no longer around was cleaning the plaque on the door for his old crew. I helped, but others where not sure what was going on. This is going to be long. . .

Roos Randermin wrote:
"What are you and Roak going on and on about?"
Ignatious the Seeker of Flame wrote:

"I've been with the Society for a long time, and I can honestly say that in that time, I have few regrets. We are morning the best amongst us, a fall that shames us all."

"Some years ago, there was a group within the Pathfinder Society whose secret aim was to look out for the younger, newer, less experienced agents, and to keep them from being used and abused so often. The group, called the Shadow Lodge, had begun as a band of brothers and sisters that the Decemvirate, and more than a few of the Venture Officers had abandon, neglected to tell them pertinent information about a mission, or simply been ignorant themselves. Not all of them had perished, and as more and more survived, they banded together to avoid it from happening again."

"However, there where some within the Shadow Lodge who instead wanted, in reality a deserved revenge against the leaders of the Pathfinder Organization, and these "false" Shadow Lodge agents went to war with both the "true" Shadow Lodge, but primarily the Pathfinder Society itself, for it was they who had left them to die, or tried to have them killed. Or their friends. Or family."

"All of this was in the shadows. The Pathfinder Society had no idea who was destroying them, and so easily, so precisely. It's because the Shadow Lodge was inside the Pathfinder Society already. They new first hand who the bad apples where, and how to strike. They new first hand the Society's plan, strengths, weaknesses, and also had the same access to the same resources. It was then that the "true" Shadow Lodge came out to save the Pathfinder Society. Led b one Grandmaster Torch, the Shadow Lodge informed the Society of the true threat, and they joined forces to destroy the "false" Shadow Lodge, but only after the Decemvirate bowed to the Shadow Lodge's terms. No more would agent's simply be left to die. Or swept under the rug because of a Venture-Captain' ignorance or laziness. The Shadow Lodge also developed special strike teams that would deploy to find and retrieve missing agents, at least returning their bodies home for healing or burial."

"But as I had said, we honor the best of us, and that means they are no longer with us. Not really. There are rumors that they still exist. Out there, somewhere. But I've only hear of them once in passing, and it's been some long years now. With the threat of the "false" Shadow Lodge gone, and things truly beginning to look up, the Decemvirate pulled a nasty trick. Truly vile. Utilizing some sort of Doppelganger or some sort of magic, now on really knows for sure, they staged a public betrayal of both the Pathfinder Society and some of the Shadow Lodge's most loyal by "Grandmaster Torch", and in one simple stoke, tore it all down."

"Our shame, all of us, for we are all equally at fault here, is that we did not fight back. We did not support our brothers and sisters when they needed us the most. With the spectacle of Grandmaster Torch's betrayal, the Shadow Lodge, now the only Shadow Lodge was dissolved. After thrusting the knife into our brother's backs, they then repeated the efforts on our sisters, adding in an extra twist of the blade: the Decemvirate was even so gracious as to, "allow them to return to the fold". Yes, ponder that for a moment. The Pathfinder Society "allowed" the Shadow Lodge to "return to the fold". That is like saying that Cheliax, in all seriousness and honesty both offered to allow Andoran and the Liberty's Edge to return to their rightful place, and then fully expected them to drop to their knees and crawl back. It's outright ridiculous."

"We all allowed this to happen, and even now, whilst many are so eager to defile all that the Shadow Lodge had been and done, there are those who don't even have the competency to know that they do it. Such as the whore of Cheliax, whose own symbol is just a weak rerepresentation of a greatness that was. Look upon the whore's symbol, a burning book, and see that her agenda is one and the same. To destroy the truth. Not to find it and keep it."

"I apologize. I find it very irksome that someone so unworthy, and in fact an entire retinue of her slaves would dare to even claim some sort of kinship with the Shadow Lodge, even if it is simply through their associated symbol, and ignorance is no excuse. For Zarta, it never was. But the Shadow Lodge as somewhat similar in many ways to both your own and my own Factions. Perhaps most of all, but even Darius's friends have more than a few similarities. Like Darius's allies, the Shadow Lodge worked from behind the thrown, always seeking to make alliances with the most unexpected people, for one never knows when one, or one's friends, may need a favor. But they had a plan. A focus. Beyond power and influences, that is. Their efforts where to fix the broken Pathfinder Society, and for a time, they did."

"Like Liberty's Edge, or at the time, the followers and idealists of the nation of Andoran, the Shadow Lodge was perfectly willing to punch an idiot barking orders in the face if that idiot was, well an idiot. But I've heard many stories about Major Maldris, and while in the end, the Pathfinder Society turned Grandmaster Torch into the same hypocrite as those stories may indicate, both of the groups that followed them did so for the purposes they espoused. The Shadow Lodge was also similar to, and perhaps the most similar to my own alliance. They sought against all odds, to improve the world. While the Silver Crusade does so with the Society, the Shadow Lodge did so regardless of, or even in spite of the Society if need be. But they where also a group that believed the ends justified the means, for better or for worse."

"You may wonder why a group called that would be called the Shadow Lodge had a symbol of flame. I wondered this myself. But consider that they where more than willing to fight fire with fire, and it makes a bit more sense. Poetic, of sorts. While the Darkive hoards "darkness" and pretends to be of use, or even needed with their treasures, the Shadow Lodge took those same evils that others didn't want, but the Society was too weak to destroy, and used them for good. Or rather, used them against evil."

Roos Randermin wrote:
Roos listens to Iggys eulogy and explanation of events. "Many thanks. I joined the society soon after the closing of the two lodges and never really got filled in on what transpired. Any-who I'm gonna see what is around the corner here." and with that Roos walks over to the right "Oh look sofas. I am tired." he tells the others and then sits down.


Davor wrote:
"Remember that scene from LOTR, where Arwen summons up that river of horses? It's like that, but with Danny Devito instead of horses."

LMAO I think I wanna hear some context for this one!


Qakisst Vishtani wrote:

About a month ago we're slugging our way through Hook Mountain Massacre and my Ifrit sorcerer/oracle gets hit with baleful polymorph. I miss the fort save but make the will save, so now I'm playing a fire flinging bunny. Our party paladin, upon seeing this happen doesn't challenge the caster that just did this to me, no. She squeals in delight, yells out, "Bunny!!!" and rushes over to pick me up and hug me. The fight is still going on around us and our idyllkin aasimar is more excited about having a new pet.

If they hadn't needed me for the next fight I think they would have kept me as a bunny. I know our paladin wanted too.

If they'd left you as a bunny, I would have had a TPK on my hands in that boss fight. It was close enough as it was with 2 unconscious and 1 dead.

Sovereign Court

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I don't even remember the character's name. It was a one-shot game back in 3.0, around 2002ish. 5th level, two players plus a DM. I played a female human sorcerer and the other guy played a male (elf?) fighter.

We were sent on an item recovery mission by the noble of one countryside manor against another. We were pretty low on resources (particularly my spells) on our return. Probably cause we drew a little too much attention on our approach to the enemy manor and ended up fighting most of the guards right at the gate. Oops.

On our return we were greeted by our employer who took us down to the basement to give us our reward. We were told to surrender our weapons first. Metagame we knew something was up, but our characters didn't. We were shown a treasure room and are told to pick our own reward. We step in, the illusory treasure disappears, and the door slams behind us. We then informed of our pending execution the next morning. No weapons, almost no spells, and a looming death.

Instead of brooding over how we'd been set up to steal something only to then get executed by our employer, I look at my remaining spell slots: a 0th level and a 2nd level. Most of the guards leave and the DM is about to call the game. We're completely toast.

I smile and turn to the DM. "I cast knock." The look on his face was just priceless.

Running out of the prison cell, we encounter one guard. I use up my last 0th level slot to cast Daze, buying the fighter a chance to steal a weapon without an AoO. He quickly wins the 1v1 fight against the guard and we book it for the exit, making our way into the woods. No survival skills between us and the only food we had was some muffins we'd picked up during our mission. Though we did have some gems iirc, so we could have bought food if we could get to a town.

It ended there. I always wondered about the fate of those PCs, but I like to bring those 3 words up every once in a while when playing with the guy who DMed.


Have the characters reoccur. I'm thinking of playing such a character in PBP. Or you could add a level or 2 of ranger and have him found living with a Dryad, plotting his revenge on the noble.

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“Now all of that being said, I’m not intrinsically opposed to accepting another quest/geas/whatever else because I’m a picky, greedy little thing with a one track mind, very little self-control, very little propensity to plan things ahead beyond the moment...” She pauses and glances down at Nualia, “... and that top looks exceptionally fetching on you. Wait. What was I saying? Oh yeah.” She shakes her head and stops staring at Nualia’s chest. “I might agree to it, if you do your casting being fully aware of what I said already, and you tell me the obligations of the quest spell ahead of time.”

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"I'm fine."

context:
1st level Arcanist, damaged from 6hp (max) to 4. A bit of MAD with the Arcanist so I leave Con at 10. Healer is handing out spells. I decline, on the basis that a spell would be wasted for me. "I'm fine." We happen to level then, and we camp overnight. In the middle of the night, we get ambushed by goblins. After gaining 4 hp and healing 2 in my sleep, the goblins open the door and can happen to see me where I thought I'd be hidden in the back of the room. 2 hits, knock me down to 6hp. Healer wants to heal, but I figure I had 6hp yesterday morning, I'm not going to need more today. "I'm fine." We go on with our day, find some tunnels, one other PC and I crawl through one because the armored characters are afraid they'll get stuck in the narrow passage. Centipedes fall on me. We retreat as fast as we can crawl. He wants to know if we should switch places. I'd rather just run. I get bit, poisoned for Dex damage multiple times. We fall out and now I have 2 hp. The healer wants to heal me, I want to wait and see if I'll even be conscious after the poison is done with me. "I'm fine." After failing every possible save and letting the poison run its course, I have 2hp left and an effective Dex score of 2. Now it's just ludicrous. We're 2nd level without access to restoration. So now it's a running gag that even though I'm shambling around like a zombie and mumbling through my numb lips, and I can't feel my feet, I'm still declining healing. My wife is playing an altruistic healer and she's saying "We have to get Vixtis out of here!" Me, speaking as if I have Novocaine numbing my tongue: "I'm fine!"

ETA:
TL;DR:

I was not fine.

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