| General Bob |
My group was playing a steampunk campaign set in the late 1800's. Now, normally I don't style my characters after established literary figures, it just kind of takes the fun out of playing the character your own way, but just once I had to play as Roland Deschain from Steven King's 'Dark Tower' series. If you don't know the character, he's a very severe, no nonsense kind of guy who greatly dislikes unforeseen setbacks. The unfortunate story goes as follows:
We were stranded on a tropical island that was currently in the control of the Germans. The party was split due to a scouting mission when the 'base camp' was attacked by Umber Hulks. The group's unfortunate doctor was snatched away by one of the burrowing beasties and taken deep underground. So naturally the inept mage summoned a dire badger to go after said doctor (which was ultimately unsuccessful by the way). Upon returning to the group, the observant Roland notices the absolute destruction of the base camp and the absence of the doctor.
Roland: Are we all here? Wait a second, where's the doctor?
Group member: He got kidnapped by Umber Hulks!
Mage: (pipes up happily) Don't worry, we've got a badger on it!
Now whenever we have some sort of insurmountable problem there always seems to be a badger on the case.
Also, from the same quest.
The doctor who was shanghai-ed in the previous story was early on turned undead due to wierd medical experiments. We fixed the problem, but thereafter he maintained a sense of the undead-ness in the form of a hunger for the flesh of fellow group members. To aid him in this, he somehow acquired a bandoleer of spices to flavor his friends. Our unfortunate butler later on lost an arm to a rather nasty razor wire trap. The doctor snatched up the arm and cured (in the culinary sense of the word) it for later. Randomly throughout the rest of the adventure he would pull out a bit of 'butler jerky' and munch happily.