Name of PC: Sagrados Rumoria
Class/Level: Unchained Rogue (Scout) 14
Adventure: Skeletons of Scarwall
Catalyst: Danse Macabre
Story: Our klutzy kitty suffered another death, this time in the infamous Castle Scarwall — I rolled to select which target(s) in range the Danse would strike, and the dice kept landing on Sagrados until he was nothing but a desiccated husk.
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Name of PC: Rorgus Thousandsons
Class/Level: Warpriest 15/Barbarian 1
Adventure: Crown of Fangs
Catalyst: Queen Ileosa Arabasti
Story: Rorgus chose to bear Serithtial and personally bring an end to Ileosa's tyranny. When the Harrowed Heroes came to the Sunken Queen's pinnacle, and came face-to-face with her, he flew up to face her directly. He was skilled with a blade, but her training with the rapier exceeded his with a longsword. While he was able to land a few blows, she was able to find a way past his defenses multiple times. After a few moments, he realized how outclassed he was, and she drove the rapier through his chest, spilling his life blood. She turned to face another combatant who had flown up to fight her, so she missed that suddenly his wounds completely healed. He had drawn a Harrow card from the harrow deck of many things that would completely heal all his wounds the next time he was killed.
Name of PC: Rorgus Thousandsons
Class/Level: Warpriest 15/Barbarian 1
Adventure: Crown of Fangs
Catalyst: Queen Ileosa Arabasti
Story: With two foes facing the tyrant queen, her attention is divided, and the Heroes are able to force her to retreat. She heals some while they face the taniniver, and she returns to the pinnacle alone, facing the entire party by herself. She once again focuses her attention at Rorgus, very nearly killing him again - he is brought into unconsciousness, and floats down to the bottom of the shaft connecting the third floor and the fourth. She then turns her attention to...
Name of PC: Aerus
Class/Level: Skald 6/Dragon Disciple 10
Adventure: Crown of Fangs
Catalyst: Queen Ileosa Arabasti
Story: The half-blue dragon Shoanti warrior had been confused early in the fight, and had not been able to fully bring his attention to the Queen. However, she knew he was a threat since he had been fighting the taniniver both times it showed up. He was badly wounded when she moved over to him, and quickly slew him, dropping the party to four.
Which was quickly five again. Once of the party's familiars, a monkey named Five, had climbed down to heal Rorgus, and managed to activate a cure moderate wounds wand, bringing him barely conscious. He grabbed Serithtial for a third time, flew back up, and stabbed the blade into her back to the hilt, killing her with a single blow.
It was an epic end to the campaign.
Onto Shattered Star!
Good stuff!
Name of PC: Yashana
Class/Level: Swashbuckler 7 Shadowdancer 7
Adventure: Skeletons of Scarwall
Catalyst: Glimkarus
Story: the group was finishing out searching the second floor and stumbled onto the torture room. Glimkarus heard them coming and hid using his invisibility. As the group investigated the torture room with the two “stabby” characters searching first, Glimkarus attacked, using his quicken phantasmal killer on Yashana who immediately failed both saving throws and dies. We use hero points so she quickly decided to spend two and have it act as if she had passed Fort save only taking 3d6 instead. I still count it as a death though.
Name: Feanor
Race: Human
Class: Arcanist 12
Adventure: A History of Ashes
Location: Flameford Assault
Catalyst: Cinnabars last kill
After finishing the trials, the party was waiting for the return of the Sun Shaman from the Kallow Mounds and got hit with the combinaed assault of the Red Mantis, the Ashwing Gargoyles and the Cinderlander. Feanor took out quite a lot of the Gargoyles with two consecutive chain lightnings, but not before they had taken down all of his mirror images. Meanwhile, the Red Mantis had gotten close to the party under the effects of Vanish and Invisibility spells and Feanor got sandwiched between one normal assasin and Cinnabar. He already had gotten hit a few times and Cinnabar critting him twice in a row and a last time for good measure after he had already fallen took him well beyond death.
Ironically, Cinnabar was brought well into her "redemption range" right after, due to getting hit to very close to death by the grieving Investigator and dropped her weapons, begged for a mercy kill and instead was clobbered over the head into unconciousness.
After the fight, she explained her situation and it was left up to Feanor if he wanted to have her killed. He showed his good qualities and let her live, with her being plane shifted to Axis by the Sun Shaman to receive a just trial for her life (and have a chance to escape the Red Mantis retribution).
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Name: Chiyaliso "Chili"
Details: Nagaji Slayer 7
Adventure: Seven Days to the Grave
Location: The Urgathoan Temple
Catalyst: Quad-Crit Weapons
After fighting our way through the Urgathoans, enjoying the simplicity of Good Fighting Evil after all the worries of "how are we going to infiltrate this purported hospice over nothing but suspicion?" Andaisen chopped off Chili's head with her scythe.
When it turned out That Wasn't Even Her Final Form, the heroes ran off screaming, carrying Chili's head and body so that he could be safely Raised. We knew we wouldn't be able to stop her with our toughest one dead in a single blow, and when we returned the next day, she was gone.
Later...
Name: Tenris Chervenki, AKA "Softbrush"
Details: Foxfolk U-Rogue 8
Adventure: Escape from Old Korvosa
Location: The "King's" "Palace"
Catalyst: Another Lucky Crit
After sneaking through the place and finding nothing dangerous, Softbrush walked through an open doorway and found a bunch of people throwing axes at him, followed by a screaming gnome with a greataxe charging him with a power attack. One axe hit, the Power Attack charge crit, chopping his head off. After getting revified, his first plan was to get his magic armor magically fortified.
Oof, would recommend having Andaisin join Zenobia in the Deathshead Vaults, perhaps a bit more powered up with some cleric levels.
Ahh, my favourite thread in this forum.
We used to have a house rule that said if you oiled a 20 it was base weapon max damage plus the dice for a crit. Too many close calls for my PC’s so we stopped it.
Name of NPC: Sial
Class/Level: Summoner 12
Adventure: Skeletons of Scarwall
Catalyst: Greater shadow
Story: in front of the doors to the observatory the group stopped and “rested” for a short time. Casting some spells and filling spell slots they had left empty. I rolled for the random encounter and they were attacked by greater shadows. Poor Sial, tried to extricate himself from one situation and put him into another inadvertently when the group shifted to help one of theirs who was under attack. The greater shadow crited Sial for maximum strength damage killing him instantly. After much debate they brought him back with raise dead.
Reminds me of a different time Sial has stepped away from a greater shadow, only to leave Trinia (who was recently wedded wife to the party's cleric of Shelyn) completely exposed. The shadow stepped up to her, nat 20'd to hit her (which it needed because she had a good dex/dodge build) and without critting just rolled the 8 str that she had, and instantly killed her. The player immediately carried her body outside, letting the rest of the party deal with Trinia's risen shadow, while gaining a heated resentment for Sial. He was not a happy camper, for like the day until he managed to res her by freeing her soul from Scarwall.
Shadows are pretty brutal, along with other attribute draining nasties. IMO, changing things so the drain isn't doubled on a crit sounds reasonable.
Our one character is a shadowdancer, when they were doing the cindermaw challenge the idea was to drain him of his strength, that shadow minion of hers almost killed him. First round was a crit and a normal hit doing 14pts of strength damage, the next two hits pumped it up to 22pts of dmg, poor cindermaw didn’t know what hit him. I think he slithered away with only 8 strength remaining.
Name: Caliente
Details: Human Slayer 16
Adventure: Crown of Fangs
Location: Bierawash’s lobby the sunken queen
Catalyst: water and teleporting
So the group figured out a way to breathe but not how to move or operate under water. Dropping down they entered the lobby and were attacked by Bierawash who immediately struck the slayer and grappled him. Immediately performing his savage bite he criticaled it and delivered truly massive damage. But the slayer went from 149hp to 4hp and was still alive. The cleric tried to move up and dimension door away with the slayer, swashbuckler/shadowdancer and himself. But failing the caster check failed the teleportation effect and caused 20d6 damage to the three of them. Killing the slayer and wounding the Swashbuckler/SD.
Name of PC: Beanie Gillian
Class/Level: halfling female Witch (Mind/Empath patron) 11
Adventure: A History of Ashes
Catalyst: Red Mantis assassins in a certain crowded dungeon
Story: The party, accompanied by Krojun and his groupies, had investigated the lower level of the Acropolis of the Thrallkeepers. They'd decided to return to that level the next day in order to re-try some vital Knowledge checks, but were still eager to finish exploring the upper level before calling it a full (15-minute) day.
Beanie, who suffers from the Short-Attention Span flaw, was eager to leave the lower level so she was first up the lift shaft. That meant that she was the one who ran into the ambush which the RMA had set up around the top of the shaft. Four sneak attacks later, she was just a floating bundle of rags, dripping blood back down the shaft.
The RMA didn't have long to celebrate their victory however, as the rest of the party then boiled up the shaft and took their revenge - the noise of which woke up the havero tentacles.
Beanie's player got to run Krojun and his groupies until the next day, when the Sarenrite cleric raised her from the dead.