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This might take a long time so I apologise in advance.
The most epic, coolest thing that happened to me in Pathfinder was actually a whole string of events that ended up with my character, an unconventional wizard by the name of Findus (think Jack Sparrow but with Hygiene, manners and grace) pretty much saving the world. He's level 6 and has more dexterity then intelligence, so he's very, very agile.

Tiny bit of background first, we had been down in this troglodyte network of caves for the last 3 sessions, and it had really done a number on us with the traps, poison gas and roided-up warriors. We had needed to flee several times and re-enter, in order to stop this demon being resurrected by some strange machine. Over the course of these journeys I had managed to get hold of a ring of feather-falling.

So the actual story starts when we had reached the machine and started freeing prisoners who were being sacrificed to summon the demon. Trogs were coming after us so we hid in the large circular room beneath the cell level, where all the machinery was kept, and we decided to make our stand here and lie in ambush.

The first lizardmen called and demanded that we come up and surrender, to which we refused, and so the first 2 troglodytes started down the stairs after us, only to slip on the greased stairs and roll down the rest of the way onto our Paladins waiting trident. They died without fuss, though by now the lizards had got wise, and stopped coming down the stairs.

Next thing that happens is we roll perception to hear 'clink, clink, clink' something bouncing down the stairs. Immediately we realised what it was, some kind of grenade canister thing, and so I quickly grabbed it with mage hand as soon as it bounced into range, keeping it there. Luckily its blast radius is just shy of the range of mage hand, so we all survive the firey explosion.

Seeing that this didn't work, the Trogs decide to drop a gas canister through the large hole in the middle of the ceiling from the floors above. This gas really did a number on us last time, so whilst the others try and help the prisoners and find a secret door out, Findus turns invisible, leaps up to the stairs beyond the greased steps, and sneaks past the Trogs still waiting at the top.
Back on the cell level, there is a truckload of warriors and other Lizards just waiting for the party be flushed upstairs by the gas. There is no way that we could take them. It would be a massacre if we fought.
Up here is the leader, and he is talking to another room upstairs and telling them to drop another gas canister before they go in after the party. I quickly find the door leading up and manage to sneak/acrobat past more guards until I reach the top.

In this room are evil priest guys, standing over the hole that they are clearly dropping the canisters into. Another gas one is dropped as I enter. There are also several more soldiers, some kind of magic-user and a chief priest guy stood by an altar; atop of which is a huge, black gemstone bristling with energy from the machine. He is channeling something into it and it's fairly obvious that the gem contains the demon in some form or other.

Now my original plan was to stop the canisters from being dropped in some way, but now there are 3 guys doing the dropping and they have one canister left that they are about to drop. I decide to hold an action to use mage hand on it as soon as they let go... which works.

So now the room suddenly pauses as this canister they thought to drop down the chute instead floats up and over their heads, over towards the gemstone. It only takes a moment for them to know somethings up, they start searching and calling out for me whilst the wizardlizard tries to snatch the flask from my mage hand (I am making all my rolls at this point, riding my luck hard but it's paying off).

Then I drop the flask, thinking it will be full of gas like the others.
It's not. It actually unleashes a shockwave of force that sends everything in the room flying, and everyone. Except me, who managed to crit my strength(!) test of all things, and the gemstone is blown off the altar onto the floor. It's so heavy it cracks the stone flooring.

(Apparently the Trog's plan was to use the shockwave to push the gas away before their troops went after the party).

So now all the lizards have beem slammed off their feet and the leader cries out that unless the gem returns to the altar everything they have done will be undone. So now I realise I have a chance to stop this right now, I just need to get the gemstone as far away from the altar as possible.
I cast protection from evil and start rolling it along the floor towards the chute. This thing is basically the one ring if the ring was a big-ass gemstone, and it's throwing curses out like crazy, screaming at me to leave it alone and take my grubby mitts off it. I'm making all my saves still and edging it closer and closer to the edge.

And then I fail my save when it casts Blindness. Fortunately, it was in the last 5 feet, and so I know where the hole is and finish pushing it into the hole, and follow it over myself.

We both fall a long way, the gem smashes into the floor at the bottom making a crater whilst and splitting slightly, whilst my ring of feather-falling keeps me safe. But now I am blind and in a room still filled with drifting gas clouds whilst my companions have filed into a secret passageway. The Paladin is waiting at the door to see if I show up, but how to get there?

Enter my Squirrel familiar, who quickly guides me into the passage and to the party!

The best thing about all this was the fact that despite riding my luck the whole time through, I emerged completely unscathed save for the blindness, which quickly got cured in the next session.
Also the fact that as far as the party knows, I dissapeared from sight when the first gas came down and then later reappeared in the tunnel, and so they have no idea what transpired or even about the gem's existence.

The whole thing was ridiculously tense, because it could have gone wrong at any second. I think it's pretty much gauranteed I'll be playing RPG's for the rest of my life. They're just so much fun :)

Thanks for reading!