Name: Kaleb Lopas
Race: Half-Elf
Classes/levels: Rogue (Charlatan) 2
Adventure: Random Encounter
Location: In the forest somewhat 20 miles south of Oleg's Tradepost
Catalyst: Shambling Mound
The Gory Details:
The half-elf rogue tried to tumble within striking distance of the Shambler but failed and was soon grappled, taking a nasty hit at the same time. Shortly after, the Shambler squeezed the rougue who feel apart dropped to -18... and with Con 10, he was really, really dead. So the Shambler decided that it was time for a TPK... He dropped the druid, Oradin and the Tiger, and having gained more hp from the wizard, who realy didn't know Shamblers that well and decided to hit the Shambler with a lightning attack, felt rather confident though it had been taking some nasty cuts from the trio, was looking to advance on the pesky adventurers... But grease and grease and grease the shambler went down, time and time again and was denied attacks and advancement, so ever so slowly it was taken down by frost rays from the wizard and sling bullets from the ranger and some really almost hit arrows from the bard, it finally stopped squirming. The druid, tiger and oradin had stabilized by them selves and one after another was brought back on their feet...
I really thought we'd all die, but we didn't...
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Name: Athos, Miles Manners, Virgil Donati, Kazaar
Race: Human, Human, Half-orc, Half-orc
Class/Levels: Conjurer 14, Ranger 14, Fighter 12, Inquisitor 14
Adventure: War of the River Kings
Location: Irovetti's Palace
Catalyst: Jason Nelson's Irovetti revamp that makes him an "unholy terror" (See the WotRK Reference Thread)
The Gory Details:
During the final showdown with Irovetti, one of his clerics used destruction and Virgil rolled a catastrophic 1, being consumed in unholy fire. Kazaar, a recent undead convert after being captured in war, was commanded to fight the party and found no mercy at the hands of the party's cleric.
Afterwards, all was going well in the final showdown at Irovetti's palace but then poor Athos used his dimensional hop ability to escape the action, appearing right next to a Dust Of Disappearance'd Irovetti. One x3 crit later he was chunky salsa.
The encounter became a horror movie next, with each player waiting for their turn to get torn asunder by the River King's Rod of Razors. Miles the ranger made a few awesome perception checks that kept him alive a bit longer but he eventually fell as well.
After almost losing 2 out of the 3 remaining party members in an awesome fight, Irovetti finally fell to pair of spiritual allies that had been harrying him.
Name: Kaelith
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Barbarian 1
Adventure: The Stolen Lands
Location: Thorn River Camp
Catalyst: Shortsword coup de grace
The Gory Details:
As Kaelith entered the clearing, Kressle (now made aware that the camp was under attack) caught the barbarian with a lucky critical from a thrown dagger, knocking him down to 1 hit point. The next round Kaelith was knocked unconscious by a bandit's arrow, and the round after that he ate a coup de grace from a third bandit taking an opportunity when it was presented. This bandit was then swiftly dispatched by a very distraught halfling ranger and the party's half-elf sorceress.
Name: Jin
Race: Ifrit
Classes/levels: Sorcerer 8
Adventure: The Varnhold Vanishing
Location:
Catalyst: Two handed greataxe of a re-equipped dread zombie cyclops
The Gory Details:
Name: Kazaar and Miles
Race: Half-orc and Human
Classes/levels: Inquisitor 15 and Ranger 15
Adventure: Sound of One Thousand Screams
Location: Thousand Breaths
Catalyst: Ilthuliak and Tarlaxian, respectively.
After defeating Ilthuliak in a fight that consumed nearly the entire session, the party decided to camp out in the high folly. Not wanting to miss an opportunity, Nyrissa sent Tarlaxian the Young Linnorm to ambush them. The party member on watch, Miles, heard the creature coming and hid. When he noticed the primeval dragon preparing to breath attack the inside of the extradimensional tent the party was sleeping in, he took action and fired an arrow at it. He had blown his cover but saved quite a lot of pain for his allies. The party eventually emerged from the tent to help miles defeat the creature, but Miles couldn't avoid the creature's jaws. One successful bite was all it needed for it's ludicrous poison to begin effect. He failed the initial save and I rolled an 8 on the potential 1d8 con drain. His body died of toxic shock.
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Name: Jaekah, General of Iomrall
Race: Juvenile Magma Dragon
Classes/levels: Cavalier 14/Champion 3
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: The Swamp Scar
Catalyst: An angry Rusalka and very hot dice.
The Gory Details: I replaced Ngara the Spirit Naga in my game with Ngara the Rusalka Battle Scion/Champion, and made her one of Nyrissa/Ilthuliak's henchmen to tie her closer in to the plot. After freeing Sepoko from his charm, the party was asked to go slay "The Drowning Lady" - as the boggards knew her - in vengeance to assure their alliance with the newly-conquered Drelev. The party made their way to the Swamp Scar, battled through her Boggard minions, an advanced Blackspawn Stalker, The Tree that Weeps (imported from WotRK), and a pair of very nasty swamp-dwelling, flying, fiendish, three-headed sharks I found stats for. They also slew a mythic troll and scared off a pair of troglodyte barbarians Ngara had coerced into service; the pair saw the troll go down in one round and wisely decided they wanted nothing to do with this party.
When the group faced Ngara herself, she distracted them with another pair of her freakish sharks while she looped around behind the party and began spamming her dominate monster SLA on the spymistress, eventually clinching it in the second attempt. After slaying the last shark, Jaekah moved in to attack Ngara herself; while he landed some solid blows on the Rusalka, she gave back as fiercely as she took. She lashed back at Jaekah with her wakizashi, scoring three crits out of the four hits she made, carving him down from around 3/4 HP to into the negatives, then on top of that choked the last of his life out of him with her tresses before tossing his lifeless corpse aside and turning to the rest of the party. She was summarily surrounded and put down fairly swiftly after that; the party then broke the dominate on the spymistress and raised Jaekah with a mythic breath of life from the oracle countess.
Nah, the early parts of Kingmaker can be very easy, thanks to the 15-minute-adventuring-day nature of hexporation. They can also be very deadly if the party gets bad rolls on random encounters, and/or bad luck in combat. It's very swingy, and sounds to me like your players just have pretty good luck =)
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Name: Queen Arabella Ravenna, ruler of Vallis
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Weapon Master 6/Aldori Swordlord 3
Adventure: ancient prophecy coming to pass
Location: Serpentstone (Capitol) Piers
Catalyst: Sea Serpent and Skum attack on the docks
The queen failed her saving throw on a 2, then used her re-roll (I gave them all a re-roll dice for Xmas they can use 1/session) and rolled a 1. Instant royal corpse. She did get resurrected, which ate up a lot of the party gold, and put the kingdom even further in debt to the Church of Sarenrae, since the NPC high priestess had to summon and even higher priestess from Casmaron to cast Resurrection.
The party threw a big feast in honor of the town guards who fought off quite a few attackers, and awarded those who were most brave with newly minted sea serpent skin armor.
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Name: Sir Aedric Harte, Marshall of Vallis
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Paladin of Abadar 9
Adventure: Surprise attack by a hostile Mivonese swordlord house
Location: on the road in Mivon
Catalyst: Hill Giant Lancer riding a wooly rhino
We had a big fat mass combat that lasted four hours and resulted in the Marshall of Vallis sacrificing himself to keep the queen alive. The hill giant lancer had 15' reach and had the Queen, the General, and the Marshall all within threat range and all under 10 hps (his min damage was 16). The commander of the Queensguard (cohort to the queen) had just sacrificed himself via the bodyguard feat to save her life, but things were still dire. The paladin moved in order to get the queen in burst range, and was missed by the attack of opportunity. The subsequent charge however, resulted in a crit for about 50 more hps than the Marshall currently had. The Queen and General avenged his death, but the inquisitor could not get to him in time to use their breath of life scroll.
the party decides to name the ford after him.In our defense, that has been SOP when we lose a party member.
Ours was to name new settlements after my character's dead cohorts. We ended up with Giacomo's Rest (Kobold Bard died freeing compatriots from Drow slavery), Giselletown (Sorcerer with a bad roll versus Disintegrate), Minionville (he didn't last long enough to even get a proper name!) and one or two others.
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Name: Droth
Race: Elf
Class/Levels: Rogue (carnivalist) 5
Adventure: River's Run Red
Location: New Bixion (PC's home town)
Catalyst: Trying to escape from an organ grinder.
The Gory Details: I've added a large bit of horror to my game. Unfortunately for Droth one of those creatures was an organ grinder from the book of unrmitting horror. He tried to tumble past, failed the roll, the organ grinder didn't with it's four foot long meat cleaver.
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Name: Eko Strongheart
Race: Human
Class: Hunter 6
Adventure: River's Run Red
Location: Wilderness
Catalyst: Poor decision making.
The Gory Details: Omitted to save the player more humiliation.
Oh come now just change the names to protect to innocent.
Name: Duke Mortie Von Klinkerhoffen
Race: Human
Class: Rogue 12 / Trickster 3
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Armag's Tomb
Catalyst: Charging 2 skeleton champions with a rapier.
Mortie was resurrected back at the capital of Stagfell, but he has now learned never to go charging in by himself.
Oh I feel the need to post about my last episode. The only reason there wasn't a TPK is the GM(me) had to get up at 4:30 am and had been up 18 hours as it was.
Name: Tad
Race: half-Orc
Classes/levels: monk 2
Name: Jane
Race: Elf
Classes/levels: Druid 2
Adventure: Stolen Lands
Location: Mite Cavern: War Room
Catalyst: Tickleback
The group had entered the cavern with their usual lack of stealth. They had worked their way through the hatchery, the prank workshop and the chamb of torment, but in each chamber, at least one mite escaped deeper into the lair. At the chasm, the Druid had her wolf jump across and the wizard approached the edge with her lighted dang drawn. Looking over, she saw the bulk of the giant centipede below. I gave them plenty of time to react, and determine what it was, and then it started to climb up.
The centipede really wasn't too much of an issue, but being that the monk jumped in the chasm to try and land on the centipede (succeeding), the Druid had h wolf jump in, fell down and got AoO'd into negs. Mikmek, intent on taking the fight to the mite, and thoroughly inspired by the monk, jumped in the chasm as well....and landed in negs.
Following that fight, the notice of which alerted the mites above, who started to come down in small numbers. They eily took out the first six, but the remainder withdrew and waited.
Soon, the party was climbing the wall, und barrage of poisoned darts from the mites above. Once achieving the rim of the shaft, the monk began pulling the mites in, while the others waited for opportunities to climb up.
And then Tickleback and Grabbles appeared. Now the wizard had caught a glimpse of this pair before, and had greased the shaft, causing the two to slide down from the hatchery. She w downright scared of the thing, but still they pushed on.
I might add that the spellcasters were down to orisons and cantrips.
The monk rushed the giant tick. Crit with th bite. Monk goes down to around -18. The party stays. Tickleback moves towards the Druid. Again with the bite and down to -9. The wizard and sorcerer, and their familiars area the only ones up, and the menacing mite and his monstrous mega-tick are approaching.
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Name: Stone
Race: Half-orc
Classes/levels: Witch (Scarred Witch Doctor) 3
Adventure: The Stolen Lands
Location: Stag Lord's Fort
Catalyst: Critical manyshot
The Gory Details: After hitting Stone with one manyshot, the buffed up Stag Lord (now a Warpriest) fired another manyshot to drop the witch. One natural 20 later had the witch 50 some odd points in the negative.
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Name: Naralesh
Race: Elf
Classes/levels: Wizard 1
Adventure: The Stolen Lands
Location: Oleg's Trading Post
Catalyst: Natural 20 from a worthless bandit scum
The Gory Details: After surrounding the bandits in the very first encounter ever, they win initiative, and drop the cavalier on the first round. Naralesh shoots the bandit leader in the back from atop a roof, he whips around, natural 20, 21 damage, dead wizard. Bard drops the same round, swashbuckler escapes as only survivor. Campaign over in two rounds of combat, and the cavalier didn't even get to take an action.
@%#$ everything to do with rocket tag. This is why I don't play level 1s.
@%#$ everything to do with rocket tag. This is why I don't play level 1s.
Yup. I haven't started lower than 2nd in years. Just make them hold their level up to 3rd until they actually have enough XP to go from 1st to 3rd (presuming you're using XP at all) and it works out just fine.
Just rewind. No sense for stuff to end in the first combat.
I am fairly certain that doesn't have to mean the end of the campaign. The bandits are thugs, but they have bosses... and those bosses want more men. Plus who knows how many more of them are out there? Oleg's is likely to pay a heavy price for their "defiance" but that doesn't mean the PCs are murdered by the bandits.
Left for dead with most of their valuables taken... probably, but Oleg has more equipment. If something happened to him his wife may just replace their gear if they promise to get revenge.
Or... the bandits take their gear, rope them, and take them off to the bandit encampment. Now they have a chance to live and flee.
Even a total party wipe-out does not have to mean the end of a campaign.
Name: Mattheas Silvo
Race: Aasimar (born after Erstil himself shot his father with a holy arrow in the crotch, no joke)
Classes/levels: Druid 1
Adventure: Stolen Lands
Location: Random encounter
Catalyst: magic gone wild, centipede, confidence and love for vermin...
The Gory Details: In an attempt to kill a bandit the magical energies spontaneously erupted and called forth a Rhino (that killed most of the bandit's at Oleg's Trading post) and turned himself into icy stone.
Luckily the local hermit, Bokken, had a trick p his sleeve and saved the druid with a special ointment, but that left the druid a bit crippled.
On the way back to the trading post they encountered a giant centipede. Mattheas, being the friend to all vermin he was, attempted to subdue the creature with magic only to have half of his torso chewed off and his guts spilled all over.
To his luck, after 4h of brisk walking, Bokken saved his life again via an old, weird Numerian artifact, a scarab that burrowed into his chest, and reincarnated him as a gnome.
Name: Takeshi, Warden of Iomrall
Race: Naga (homebrew variant)
Classes/levels: Samurai 14/Champion 3
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Armagk's Tomb
Catalyst: Armagk
Upon sufficiently impressing the guardian Zorek to be allowed to pass without conflict, Takeshi led the Lords of Iomrall into the chamber of the war god and found themselves face-to-face with the biggest lizardman they'd ever seen. Armagk, armed with Ovnirbaane, immediately charged and would have likely put Takeshi down right there if it wasn't for his displacement effect on his armor.
As it was, the brutal barbarian lord still managed to brutally rip into the party, particularly Takeshi as the main frontman. Takeshi never technically died, but Armagk took him deep into the negatives (around -44 I believe) before some emergency healing from Elegy brought him back up; if it hadn't been for his samurai Last Stand ability, he would have died, possibly twice, so I'm calling this one a technical victory.
The party did eventually overcome their deadly relentless opponent, scattering the Talon Lords and seizing Ovnirbaane for their own. Though, nobody in the party really has a use for it, so it's probably going to end up in a vault somewhere.
In semi-related news, burning disarm is cheap as heck.
Name: Vach'ya Fullmoon
Race Half-Orc
Classes/levels: Ranger 1/Inquisitor 11 (Erastil)
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location:Outside the gates of Fort Drelev
Catalyst Rushed preparation and multiple evocation spells
Vach'ya and the rest of the high council received word that a boggard army bolstered with two Hezrou, a high cleric of Gogunta (spelling?), and a powerful naga were attacking our newly liberated fortress. While we had an army stationed there, we heard that they were getting annihilated by the Hezrou and we needed to act fast. Without buffing ourselves, we immediately teleported to the front gates and waded into the battle. Vach'ya, recognizing the threat of the Hezrou and their powerful spell-like abilities engaged them, keeping them occupied with his high armor class while the spellcasters did everything they could against them. While his buffs from judgement and bane helped a lot with this, it didn't help against the repeated invocations spammed by the naga and the Cleric. Once the hezrou and barbarians had been dealt with, the rest of the armies battled while Vach'ya charged at the cleric and naga. They opened up with two Cone of cold spells just as he closed the distance, freezing his blood to ice. He was saved (with the use of two hero points so his cohort could act out turn) by his brother and a Breath of Life spell.
Name: Takeshi, Warden of Iomrall
Race: Naga (homebrew variant)
Classes/levels: Samurai 14/Champion 3
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Armagk's Tomb
Catalyst: ArmagkUpon sufficiently impressing the guardian Zorek to be allowed to pass without conflict, Takeshi led the Lords of Iomrall into the chamber of the war god and found themselves face-to-face with the biggest lizardman they'd ever seen. Armagk, armed with Ovnirbaane, immediately charged and would have likely put Takeshi down right there if it wasn't for his displacement effect on his armor.
As it was, the brutal barbarian lord still managed to brutally rip into the party, particularly Takeshi as the main frontman. Takeshi never technically died, but Armagk took him deep into the negatives (around -44 I believe) before some emergency healing from Elegy brought him back up; if it hadn't been for his samurai Last Stand ability, he would have died, possibly twice, so I'm calling this one a technical victory.
The party did eventually overcome their deadly relentless opponent, scattering the Talon Lords and seizing Ovnirbaane for their own. Though, nobody in the party really has a use for it, so it's probably going to end up in a vault somewhere.
In semi-related news, burning disarm is cheap as heck.
I'm guessing someone had a familiar spamming that one for them. Ovnirbaane should have been swatting that aside with ease.
I'm guessing someone had a familiar spamming that one for them. Ovnirbaane should have been swatting that aside with ease.Name: Takeshi, Warden of Iomrall
Race: Naga (homebrew variant)
Classes/levels: Samurai 14/Champion 3
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Armagk's Tomb
Catalyst: ArmagkUpon sufficiently impressing the guardian Zorek to be allowed to pass without conflict, Takeshi led the Lords of Iomrall into the chamber of the war god and found themselves face-to-face with the biggest lizardman they'd ever seen. Armagk, armed with Ovnirbaane, immediately charged and would have likely put Takeshi down right there if it wasn't for his displacement effect on his armor.
As it was, the brutal barbarian lord still managed to brutally rip into the party, particularly Takeshi as the main frontman. Takeshi never technically died, but Armagk took him deep into the negatives (around -44 I believe) before some emergency healing from Elegy brought him back up; if it hadn't been for his samurai Last Stand ability, he would have died, possibly twice, so I'm calling this one a technical victory.
The party did eventually overcome their deadly relentless opponent, scattering the Talon Lords and seizing Ovnirbaane for their own. Though, nobody in the party really has a use for it, so it's probably going to end up in a vault somewhere.
In semi-related news, burning disarm is cheap as heck.
It was Errol the Warmage, actually, and he punched through the SR resistances with ease. Armagk made all his saves, but all burning disarm does on a successful save is make you not take damage, you still drop the weapon.
Though I later recalled that he had resist fire 20 and thus should probably have gotten to ignore that. Also a quick Google search tells me that he could have chosen to tank the damage and not drop the weapon; my players neglected to inform me of this (which, in their defense, Errol's player was absent that night so Elegy and Lilith's players were filling in for him, so they weren't as familiar with his spells as normal).
The nice thing about my Armagk being a Lizardfolk rather than a human meant that getting disarmed didn't particularly put much damper on his ability to rip Takeshi a new one. Claw Claw Bite, suckers.
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Name: Marshal Toof, son of Howl-of-the-North-Wind
Race: Goblin
Classes/levels: Barbarian (Feral Gnasher) 6
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: Troll Fort
Catalyst: Alchemist bombs and Hargulka's Necklace of Fireballs
Name: Grand Diplomat Laurent Liacenza
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Swashbuckler 6
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: Owlbear layer
Catalyst: Owlbear Colossus
Name: Tyme
Race: Halfling
Classes/levels: Druid 7
Adventure: Realm of the Fellnight Queen
Location: Rhoswen's throne room
Catalyst: Fireball
The party has climbed to the top of the queen's palace, and swung in through the balcony. After scattering the guards, they rush the queen, desperate to keep her off balance. Second round of combat, Rhoswen steps to a pillar and unleashes a shadow evocation fireball into the party, druid fails will and reflex. The rest of the party is injured, except for the mountain lion monk, which made both saves and has evasion.
Name: Hoid
Race: Human
Classes/levels: Druid 7
Adventure: Realm of the Fellnight Queen
Location: Rhoswen's throne room
Catalyst: Fireball
Third round of combat, the queen detonates another explosion of flame and shadow. The noble Hoid, king of our nascent realm, is no more.
Name: Tzelvek
Race: Centaur
Classes/levels: Fighter 7
Adventure: Realm of the Fellnight Queen
Location: Rhoswen's throne room
Catalyst: Fireball
After retreating from the holocaust, the monk and fighter heal up and charge back in. By cleaver tactics, mighty Tzelvek charges the pillar containing Rhoswen with her lance. With no room to maneuver, the sorceress, the sorceress is impaled, retaliating by detonating a fireball in the centaur's face.
Another round of combat sees the queen and fighter still conscious. The queen remedies this with yet more flame, calculated to engulf the tall centaur, but leave her majesty intact.
Name: Nymer
Race: Tiger
Classes/levels: Tyme's animal companion
Adventure: Realm of the Fellnight Queen
Location: Rhoswen's throne room
Catalyst: Baleful polymorph
After immolating the druid and bard, and as the fighter and druid are retreating, the wicked queen turns our fearsome cat into a pretty canary. Nymer makes his will save. Now he is a mighty tiger, in the form of a bird.
Mountain lion monk takes out queen via grapple after she downs the fighter. By end of fight monk has made all saves against one baleful polymorph and five shadow evocation fireballs. He is now in the throne room, totally unscathed, surrounded by corpses. Also, most of the room has taken 50d6 fire damage.
Our story ends with the monk having a discussions with the tiger turned canary as to what to do now.
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That's true, but I'm running it as part of the campaign, and I don't think Fellnight has its own obituaries section.
For me, carnival of tears and fellnight realm are the forgotten chapters of kingmaker.
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A lot of people add ROTFNQ to their Kingmaker games, so I definitely can get behind allowing it in the obits here. I certainly wouldn't want my own contributions omitted/refused because they took place in something I added on. (For example, I'm replacing most of Chapter 5 with a heavily tweaked Red Hand of Doom, but I don't see why that would disqualify any deaths therein from this thread, since plotwise it's still part of my ongoing Kingmaker campaign.)
Here! Here!
Name: High Priest Travaris Stone
Race: male half-elf
Classes/levels: Cleric 5 (Cayden Cailean)
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: the Mud Bowl
Catalyst: picking mushrooms alone
The Gory Details:
The group was expecting trouble, but the rogue suggested the cleric go up on his own and see if it was safe, and the cleric agreed. Then the tendriculos revealed itself.
Surprise bite, near max damage (11 on 2d6 + bonuses). Grappled. The cleric miraculously manages to cast a spell, sanctuary. I ruled that caused the creature to drop the grapple - it would have to take an action to try and pierce the ward. Then the cleric tried to run.
The tendriculos made the Will save to break the sanctuary, hit with the AoO, and I rolled near max damage again (11 on 2d6 + bonuses). The AoO outright killed poor Travaris, and no one else had even gotten a chance to act yet.
Sadly, the poor fellow had just gotten married about 2 weeks prior.
Name: Lilith of the Blackwood, Spymistress of Iomrall
Race: Leanbh-dubh (Homebrew Race)
Classes/levels: Slayer 14/Mythic Trickster 4
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Maure Castle - The Violet Hold (Tomorast's Hold)
Catalyst: Prompt reaction to the enemy's ego
The Gory Details: In the lower levels of Maure Castle, Lilith found a tapestry depicting the vampire Ibrahim and the lich Vordakai overlooking an ancient city of some sort. Irritated at her ex-sire's arrogance and ego, Lilith tore the tapestry down... revealing the three symbols of death behind it. Two of them didn't quite sap her life force... the third however did.
Countess Elegy hung the tapestry back up - backwards - and resurrected her.
Name: Derrick Wrath
Race: Fetchling
Classes/levels: Warden 14/Mythic Guardian 4
Adventure: Blood for Blood
Location: Maure Castle - The Statuary
Catalyst: Pissing off a Lich
The Gory Details: The time had finally come for the long-awaited rematch with the lich Vordakai, and to aid him in the fight Vordakai had used his resources to acquire a mirror of opposition, with which he'd managed to trick the PCs into allowing his familiars to create clones of Elegy, Takeshi, and Derrick - a new ally the group encountered within Maure - to aid him in the upcoming battle.
However, Elegy and Derrick quickly determined that the mirror hidden near the rear of the room was the source of the duplicates, and Derrick used one of his maneuvers to smash the fragile magic item from across the room, destroying it and with it the copies of the three heroes.
Infuriated, Vordakai turned his most powerful spell available - ray of ending - on Derrick, blasting him into smoke and erasing him from existence.
Derrick was returned to life by a wish from the Puck, in exchange for the Purple Stone the party had found in the depths of Maure. However, Derrick is also very new to the idea of dealing with fey, and made several inquiries and questions of Puck before the party finally convinced him to stop, so these littler debts are yet left open and unpaid.
Name: Councilor Salar
Race: male halfling
Classes/levels: Ranger 6
Adventure: Rivers Run Red
Location: the Dancing Lady
Catalyst: really wanted to dance!
The Gory Details:
The Dancing Lady posed as a damsel in distress who had been held captive by the other fey in the castle. And now that the party had freed her, she suggested celebrating with a dance! Salar, who was actually up on the roof looking down through the hole in the ceiling, cried out, "I want to dance with you!" and jumped down to the floor. The Dancing Lady laughed, helped him stand, and began to dance with him, at which point everyone in the group, except for the druid, failed their Will save.
The druid cast call lightning and began to strike the Lady with lightning while she began to drain Salar. The combo of her bite damage + the Con damage + the lightning killed him, although I think it was mainly the lightning damage...
Name: Andreas Grayquill
Race: male Elf
Classes/levels: Wizard 13
Adventure: War of the River Kings
Location: The Burgundy Throne, Irovetti's Palace
Catalyst: Irovetti's halberd
The Gory Details:
Irovetti was greater invs. thanks to Dust of Disappearance, and harassing the party (mainly the healer) while the rest of the PCs were busy fighting guards, trolls, and General Avinash (who changed shape to look like Irovetti).
The healer (NPC cohort) moved away from the whatever was attacking her, and the Andreas moved closer to cast some spells... standing just 5 feat from Irovetti (i forgot the reach property of the halberd, so not AoO). One crit later the wizard was down and Irovetti went back to harassing the healer.
... the healers next action was a Breath of Life on the Wizard (the lucky bastard).
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Name: Yuri
Race: male Human
Classes/levels: Rogue 4th
Adventure: Rivers
Location: Cairn Wight's Lair
Catalyst: Dwarven Greed
Befuddled by bats, the Dwarven Cleric cast Silence, ruining their echo location...the other party members tried to deal with the bats as the dwarf, seeing a body in the next chamber with a gold ring on it, went for the loot...ignoring the heads (and their effects) she pawed at the corpse greedily...never noticing the booted feet that were suddenly all about her...in the ensuing melee that followed after the dwarf had been downed, the occupants of the tomb and their master beat down the party savagly, the rogue being slain when the Wight decided to switch targets from the walking fortress of the Paladin to the less well armored rogue....splat...