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Name of PC: Lirai
Class/Level: Half Elf Conjurer level 7
Adventure: Seven Days to the Grave
Catalyst: Lady Andy and the Daughter of Urgothoa, ending one fight with a critical hit from a x4 weapon, and beginning the next one with a critical hit from a x4 weapon.
The party was fighting Lady Andy, fully buffed to the gills because they manages to knock Rolth unconscious, and kill Ramoshka. So, after a nasty fight in the plague vats, and another fighting the Luekodaemon, they went in to fight Lady Andy. She gave the party hell (even though I changed her domains and some of her spells, and increased her level a tad for a party of 5). Lirai had been doing the most consistent damage using a wand of scorching ray (well invested item for her) and a horde of summoned augmented celestial hawks. Lady Andy ended up focusing mostly on Lirai, trading spells, after trying to kill the very lethal bow-ranger with slay living. The Magus cast enlarge person on the scythe-wielding Hell Knight, who proceeded to lunge and score a lethal critical on Lady Andy while she was flying about out of reach of everyone else.
While the party was trying to figure out what next, the Daughter manifested, and proceeded to fly over to the other side of the fountain, out of immediate reach. She decided she wasn't going to play that game again, and immediately cast spiritual weapon on Lirai, and as the force scythe re-enacted a scene from Aliens (lethal critical hit), the mage was no long among the living. The bow ranger proceeded to take the daughter apart in 2 rounds. Lirai was brought back to life, as part of her reward for becoming a martyred hero of Korvosa.
The players were already heavily cheating at Blood Pig by wearing their Bracers of Armor, Rings of Protection, and already had Bull's Strength and other spells active before meeting the Emperor. However, they never even talked to him, they entered the throne room and immediately said, "We're here to play Blood Pig."
The party never played blood pig with the emperor. The ranger was taking the condition of Old Korvosa very personally, and was generally having a bad day after becoming an "ex" member of the Sable Company...so when the Emperor proposed a game of blood pig, she said "I have an idea...how about we play a game of pin-cushion.." Higher initiative than everyone else, Fast draw, Rapid Shot, Many Shot, and human bane arrows really suck if you're the pin cushion...