Jade Regent Obituaries Page (Obvious Spoilers)

[Matthew Downie]

rkotitan wrote:

4.) The samurai and the fighter spend a LARGE number of rounds simply swinging on spiritual allies because they 'wouldn't know' that they couldn't be damaged.

I hate that kind of self-inflicted destruction via "reverse metagaming". As GM, after one attempted attack I'd say, "Your weapon is clearly completely ineffective against this entity."

[Uqbarian]

Character Name: Zeldana Avertin
Race/Class: Human bladebound magus
Adventure: Tide of Honor
Location: A street in Enganoka
Cause of death: Puncture wounds, poison

I forget exactly how this went down, but my vague memory is that Kaibuninsho walked up to Zeldana and a couple of other PCs in the street (disguised as an unobtrusive civilian), whipped out a knife and failed to hit anyone. Very embarrassing. He didn't want to hang around after that, so he vanished into the crowd.

Later that day, he spotted Zeldana and another PC again, and made a second attempt. This time he successfully attacked from stealth and brought Zeldana down with a pile of poison and sneak attack damage, and stuck around another round for a coup de grace before vanishing.

By now, of course, the party can bring back the dead without using the Seal, so Zeldana was fine in a couple of hours.

The master ninja did manage to bring Zeldana, Ameiko and Quill (the party's gnome wizard) to 0 hp on subsequent occasions, but the party fought him off each time before he could finish the job. They finally killed him outside a teahouse, again in Enganoka. (He was disguised as one of the serving staff and tried to serve them poisoned food, but they detected the poison, so he tried stabbing people instead.)

(What Kaibuninso probably should have done each time was run off with the body and destroy it. That might have been a bit unfair, though.)

[Uqbarian]

I forgot one:

Character Name: Kelda Oxgutter
Race/Class: Half-orc bloodrager
Adventure: Forest of Spirits
Location: The Gossamer Pagoda
Cause of death: Mohrg attacks

I took the above-ground levels out of the House of Withered Blossoms and had them as a separate location in the Forest of Spirits. Akinosa's minions captured some of the caravan NPCs, so the party set out to get them back. They flew in through the top of the pagoda and worked their way down. By the time they got to the maze of screens, they were feeling pretty cocky, so a couple of PCs ran into the maze on their own, figuring nothing was left in the pagoda that could threaten them. A couple of the mohrgs snuck up on Kelda, paralysed her and killed her. (Time for another use of the Seal.)